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#1

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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#2

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3560 likes

#3

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

4210 likes

#4

“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
― Gary Snyder

983 likes

#5

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#6

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

3133 likes

#7

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love, sadness

4113 likes

#8

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6465 likes

#9

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: hope, love

2502 likes

#10

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: facts, knowledge

2280 likes

#11

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

1288 likes

#12

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

5086 likes

#13

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2122 likes

#14

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6094 likes

#15

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7890 likes

#16

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

9017 likes

#17

“I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
― Diana Nyad

1145 likes

#18

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

tags: anonymity, blending-in

2103 likes

#19

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

1690 likes

#20

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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#21

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

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#22

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

tags: fire, love, lust, matches

2035 likes

#23

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2423 likes

#24

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

3487 likes

#25

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

1734 likes

#26

“Bravery comes one day at a time.”
― Courtney C. Stevens, Faking Normal

tags: bravery, inspirational

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#27

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading

2840 likes

#28

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

10974 likes

#29

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

2619 likes

#30

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

5610 likes

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