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#1

“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
― Hergé, The Shooting Star

tags: end-of-the-world, funny, tintin

#2

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

20746 likes

#3

“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield, laughter

1742 likes

#4

“I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People never notice anything.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: catcher-in-the-rye, holden-caulfield

426 likes

#5

“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: metaphor, punctuation

1057 likes

#6

“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

912 likes

#7

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: accountability, inner-peace, peace, self-acceptance, spiritual

1556 likes

#8

“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

854 likes

#9

“A little glitter can turn your whole day around.”
― Barbara Park, Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked

129 likes

#10

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

2186 likes

#11

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: self

2001 likes

#12

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

4490 likes

#13

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

1760 likes

#14

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6883 likes

#15

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

1877 likes

#16

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

1754 likes

#17

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

2258 likes

#18

“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

1639 likes

#19

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

1084 likes

#20

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

1814 likes

#21

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

2285 likes

#22

“And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

152 likes

#23

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

3717 likes

#24

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

tags: harry-potter, jk-rowling, stephenie-meyer, twilight

4126 likes

#25

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
― Stephen King

tags: motherhood, mothers

1376 likes

#26

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

tags: on-writing, words, writing

1227 likes

#27

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

tags: bright, dark, day, night

709 likes

#28

“You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

44 likes

#29

“Be kind to yourself, so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.”
― Misha Collins

tags: happy, inspirational, kindness, misha-collins

45 likes

#30

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

tags: change, inspirational

3307 likes

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