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#1

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

8476 likes

#2

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

tags: carpe-diem, future, present

2609 likes

#3

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton

2772 likes

#4

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

1988 likes

#5

“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

tags: inspirational, my-psalm

1280 likes

#6

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

tags: christmas

3128 likes

#7

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

tags: december-31, new-year-s-eve, new-years, new-years-eve

2034 likes

#8

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

11428 likes

#9

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

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#10

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

3024 likes

#11

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

tags: growth, poetry

1732 likes

#12

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

3449 likes

#13

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

2932 likes

#14

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

1535 likes

#15

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

2146 likes

#16

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

3111 likes

#17

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

tags: reading

2004 likes

#18

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

tags: dance, happiness, nursery-rhymes

2199 likes

#19

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

4286 likes

#20

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

tags: integrity

1894 likes

#21

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

4330 likes

#22

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

1740 likes

#23

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

4613 likes

#24

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

5094 likes

#25