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#1

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9727 likes

#2

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

2274 likes

#3

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?”
― Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen

tags: andrew, beautiful, clements, inspirational, ironic, life, oxemoron, paradox, wisdom

285 likes

#4

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

3380 likes

#5

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

6492 likes

#6

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

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9135 likes

#7

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

tags: books

6774 likes

#8

“When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad...
you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!”
― Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

572 likes

#9

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

2499 likes

#10

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

1380 likes

#11

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7678 likes

#12

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

2963 likes

#13

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

2390 likes

#14

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time

21010 likes

#15

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

3226 likes

#16

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47100 likes

#17

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

tags: family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage

3930 likes

#18

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

77875 likes

#19

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

2322 likes

#20

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

2855 likes

#21

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

42366 likes

#22

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

33888 likes

#23

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

1025 likes

#24

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

3554 likes

#25

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

4504 likes

#26

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

1528 likes

#27

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

4130 likes

#28

“I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.”
― Richard Scarry

75 likes

#29

“When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.”
― Peggy Rathmann

14 likes

#30

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

tags: nico

13460 likes

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