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#1

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

#2

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6647 likes

#3

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
― Richard Bach

tags: editing, richard-bach, writing

496 likes

#4

“It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”
― Robin Black, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

tags: relationships, short-story

49 likes

#5

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

tags: gender

1490 likes

#6

“Sunny day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet”
― Joe Raposo

938 likes

#7

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

tags: writing

1747 likes

#8

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2360 likes

#9

“It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.”
― Erich Fromm

248 likes

#10

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

3552 likes

#11

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31528 likes

#12

“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

500 likes

#13

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
― Erica Jong

tags: advice

312 likes

#14

“I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.”
― Edith Konecky

tags: humor

151 likes

#15

“When you travel with your family, you may not get the volume of work done you would if you were alone, but you can still do something while recharging. If nothing else, you can gather your own thoughts, write down ideas, observe people around you, and reflect on experiences. Working doesn't always mean putting words on paper.”
― Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

tags: writing

7 likes

#16

“Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.”
― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

72 likes

#17

“Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.”
― Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas

162 likes

#18

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

8116 likes

#19

“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

445 likes

#20

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

3950 likes

#21

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7579 likes

#22

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials

1620 likes

#23

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

tags: color, god, purple, religion

1896 likes

#24

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

2687 likes

#25

“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

791 likes

#26

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

3023 likes

#27

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. ”
― Louis L'Amour

423 likes

#28

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

3776 likes

#29

“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”
― Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

tags: art, education, empowerment, teaching

174 likes

#30

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

7948 likes

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