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#1

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
― Madeleine Albright

tags: change, choice, free-will, freedom

#2

“Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: free-will

107 likes

#3

“No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

tags: choices, course, destination, fate, free-will, freedom, knowledge, path, thought

93 likes

#4

“[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

tags: choice, free-will

72 likes

#5

“Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.”
― Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

tags: free-will, heaven, hell, spirituality

63 likes

#6

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

tags: happiness

2534 likes

#7

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27739 likes

#8

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71567 likes

#9

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

3847 likes

#10

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

3063 likes

#11

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

3864 likes

#12

“Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

911 likes

#13

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

5448 likes

#14

“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Home

tags: faith, inspirational

1330 likes

#15

“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

1256 likes

#16

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

1309 likes

#17

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

2626 likes

#18

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

tags: perfection

1000 likes

#19

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

2379 likes

#20

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

tags: humor

1590 likes

#21

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

2285 likes

#22

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

2445 likes

#23

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

3729 likes

#24

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing

1402 likes

#25

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
― Derek Walcott

tags: poetry

1657 likes

#26

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

2660 likes

#27

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

tags: imagination, writing

2556 likes

#28

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

3948 likes

#29

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

2466 likes

#30

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

3309 likes

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