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#1

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

#2

“I am proud only of those days that pass in
undivided tenderness.”
― Robert Bly, A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self

tags: proud, tenderness

663 likes

#3

“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
― Charles de Lint, Moonheart

tags: qotd, wonders

1777 likes

#4

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

9079 likes

#5

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

tags: growth, poetry

1729 likes

#6

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

tags: books

1772 likes

#7

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12679 likes

#8

“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

1536 likes

#9

“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

2153 likes

#10

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

tags: integrity

1896 likes

#11

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

3450 likes

#12

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12154 likes

#13

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

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9718 likes

#14

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

2279 likes

#15

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17071 likes

#16

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

1583 likes

#17

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

5755 likes

#18

“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

3390 likes

#19

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

tags: inspirational, life

2114 likes

#20

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

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9112 likes

#21

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

1796 likes

#22

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: courage, happiness, work

2766 likes

#23

“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins

tags: poetry

717 likes

#24

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

2504 likes

#25

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

5286 likes

#26

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring

2364 likes

#27

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

1368 likes

#28

“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

7654 likes

#29

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

2331 likes

#30

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

3197 likes

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