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#1

“I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”
― Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald

#2

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39276 likes

#3

“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

23462 likes

#4

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21855 likes

#5

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

5829 likes

#6

“What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: cats, names, self-knowledge

2232 likes

#7

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32151 likes

#8

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

tags: books, humor

2606 likes

#9

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

6942 likes

#10

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

9855 likes

#11

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
― Terry Pratchett

4288 likes

#12

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: life, travel

3763 likes

#13

“The journey itself is my home.”
― Matsuo Basho

tags: travel

420 likes

#14

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

36861 likes

#15

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life

3614 likes

#16

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: inspirational, poetry

3578 likes

#17

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21433 likes

#18

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
― Leo F. Buscaglia

tags: inspiration, wisdom

1585 likes

#19

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

7563 likes

#20

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: airports, humor, travel

804 likes

#21

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll

11697 likes

#22

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: death, humor

3472 likes

#23

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

3692 likes

#24

“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

tags: life

2491 likes

#25

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, favorite-books

1609 likes

#26

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: acceptance, inspiration, inspirational, smart, understanding, wise

4140 likes

#27

“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
― Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation

1176 likes

#28

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel

6328 likes

#29

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: fantasy, heaven

1691 likes

#30

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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