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  • #61
    Anna Sewell
    “It is good people who make good places.”
    ― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
    tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming
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  • #62
    Daniel Clowes
    “He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
    ― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World
    tags: boy, cool, girl, successful, try
    947 likes

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  • #63
    Paul Kalanithi
    “You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
    ― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
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  • #64
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational, life-lessons, purpose
    600 likes

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  • #65
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading
    2711 likes

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  • #66
    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Living
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
    3791 likes

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  • #67
    Douglas Adams
    “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
    32128 likes

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  • #68
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #69
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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  • #70
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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  • #71
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
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  • #72
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45261 likes

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  • #73
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37975 likes

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  • #74
    Douglas Adams
    “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
    39229 likes

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  • #75
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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  • #76
    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
    5243 likes

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  • #77
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler
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  • #78
    Angela Johnson
    “My life is like tofu—it's what gets added that makes it interesting.”
    ― Angela Johnson, A Certain October
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  • #79
    Amish Tripathi
    “Khalil Gibran said that parents are like a bow, And children like arrows. The more the bow bends and stretches, the farther the arrow flies. I fly, not because I am special, but because they stretched for me.”
    ― Amish Tripathi, Scion of Ikshvaku
    56 likes

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  • #80
    Menna Van Praag
    “If you get a chance you should marry an archaeologist. I don’t suppose there are too many to go around, but it’s the best sort of husband to have. The older a woman gets, the more he’s interested in her.”
    ― Menna van Praag, The House at the End of Hope Street
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  • #81
    Ali Benjamin
    “If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were silent, they could read one another's signals, the way underwater creatures flash lights at one another, or turn their skin different colors.”
    ― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish
    tags: silence
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  • #82
    Monica Drake
    “The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soul mate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.”
    ― Monica Drake, Clown Girl
    47 likes

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  • #83
    Pearl S. Buck
    “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
    ― Pearl S. Buck
    1458 likes

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  • #84
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
    13382 likes

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  • #85
    Rohinton Mistry
    “The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
    ― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
    1279 likes

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  • #86
    Charles Frazier
    “What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.”
    ― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
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  • #87
    Charles Frazier
    “[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.”
    ― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
    tags: redemption
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  • #88
    André Maurois
    “The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
    ― Andre Maurois
    tags: andre-maurois-books-reading
    1542 likes

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  • #89
    J.K. Rowling
    “Most of the time, I think you have to make a choice—at a certain point—of the man you want to be. And I will tell you at that time you need a parent or a friend. And if you've learnt to hate your parent by then and you have no friends...then you're all alone. And being alone—that's so hard."
    -Draco Malfoy”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
    tags: draco, harry-potter, malfoy
    86 likes

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  • #90
    J.K. Rowling
    “Love blinds. We have both tried to give our sons, not what they needed, but what we needed. We’ve been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we’ve blighted their present.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
    105 likes



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