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#1

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

tags: growth, poetry

1735 likes

#2

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

84357 likes

#3

“If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life.”
― arthur ashe

tags: inspirational

30 likes

#4

“He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."
...
Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: don-corleone, last-words

254 likes

#5

“Open your mind before you open your mouth”
― Subroto Bagchi, Go Kiss the World: Life Lessons For The Young Professional

27 likes

#6

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

3891 likes

#7

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

25079 likes

#8

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9039 likes

#9

“You've got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.”
― Janet Fitch

318 likes

#10

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109428 likes

#11

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

2496 likes

#12

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

7213 likes

#13

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

1935 likes

#14

“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”
― Margaret Cho

18 likes

#15

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words

20068 likes

#16

“And what if I fail?"
"Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.”
― Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge

47 likes

#17

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

2806 likes

#18

“Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.”
― Sonia Rumzi

171 likes

#19

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

5542 likes

#20

“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

655 likes

#21

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

1607 likes

#22

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

3088 likes

#23

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: future, grammar, language, past

2872 likes

#24

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

6533 likes

#25

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

tags: death, life, poetry

5667 likes

#26

“Goodness is not its own reward in this world. Those who help are sometimes destroyed first”
― Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

7 likes

#27

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

4271 likes

#28

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

2358 likes

#29

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: beautiful, shadow, thing

680 likes

#30

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

1567 likes

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