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#1

“No longer forward or behind
I look in hope or fear,
But grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

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#2

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7425 likes

#3

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7339 likes

#4

“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

37983 likes

#5

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
― Josh Billings

tags: animals, dogs

1673 likes

#6

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74334 likes

#7

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165221 likes

#8

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23096 likes

#9

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9009 likes

#10

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

tags: books, reading

2356 likes

#11

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

15491 likes

#12

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking

2320 likes

#13

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced

5691 likes

#14

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring

2201 likes

#15

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
― Henry Miller

tags: life

1572 likes

#16

“Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.”
― Henry Miller

516 likes

#17

“We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.”
― Henry Miller

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#18

“Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: crime, imagination

39 likes

#19

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

9133 likes

#20

“Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up. ”
― Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

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