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#0

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

#1

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: happiness

11982 likes

#2

“The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books, reading, time

102 likes

#4

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81811 likes

#5

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

5601 likes

#6

“War is the whetstone that grinds down all sense, all humanity.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

54 likes

#7

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: change

2275 likes

#8

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

13321 likes

#9

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

21091 likes

#10

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46491 likes

#11

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

tags: love

2186 likes

#12

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9009 likes

#12

“I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.”
― Hank Green

tags: living, space, time

63 likes

#13

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17494 likes

#15

“Her eyes were wind-whipped and her smile at the night sky was sly, as if she and the stars were on familiar terms.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

6 likes

#16

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

3379 likes

#17

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: bee-keeping, bees, honey

107 likes

#18

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48257 likes

#19

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

6042 likes

#20

“A nice frame doesn’t make a nice picture.”
― Winston Graham, Demelza

tags: appearances, beauty, life, truth

22 likes

#21

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

4525 likes

#22

“The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

259 likes

#23

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
―حافظ”
― Hafiz

108 likes

#24