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#1

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

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#2

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

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#3

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

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#4

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#6

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: words

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#7

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

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#8

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: love

4717 likes

#10

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

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#11

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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#11

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

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#13

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#14

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

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#14

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance

tags: library, reading

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#15

“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

tags: morning, night, optimism

857 likes

#16

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: good-evil

2872 likes

#18

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: distance, time

3213 likes

#19

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

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#20

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

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#21

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

7773 likes

#21

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3

tags: friendship, nonsense

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#22

“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
― Steve Hall

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#23

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

15770 likes

#24

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

tags: kindness

2158 likes

#25

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

tags: dream, fate, hope

2587 likes

#26

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

tags: poetry

1797 likes

#27

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

tags: strength, worry

4875 likes

#28

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23472 likes

#29

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#30

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#31

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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