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#1

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

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

#2

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

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#3

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1962 likes

#4

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

3620 likes

#5

“Faith reaches out to where reason points and does not limit itself to where reason stops.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How To Help Seekers And Skeptics Find Faith

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#6

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: closing-line, last-words, self-sacrifice

3063 likes

#7

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

5168 likes

#8

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6895 likes

#9

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9120 likes

#10

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6774 likes

#11

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

2685 likes

#12

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

3549 likes

#13

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

3191 likes

#14

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

2856 likes

#15

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion

1921 likes

#16

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

1818 likes

#17

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

3228 likes

#18

“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

1292 likes

#19

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

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#20

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

tags: books

2573 likes

#21

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

3549 likes

#22

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

2763 likes

#23

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

5015 likes

#24

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6889 likes

#25

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

3936 likes

#26

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

4616 likes

#27

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

1756 likes

#28

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7576 likes

#29

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

6602 likes

#30

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: life

2854 likes

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