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#1

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

#2

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: apples, seasons

829 likes

#3

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
― Chad Sugg

tags: autumn, encourage, fall, inspirational, life, love, nature, trees

490 likes

#4

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

tags: autumn

2835 likes

#5

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

[Indian Summer]”
― John Howard Bryant

693 likes

#6

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
― Humbert Wolfe

tags: autumn, seasons

427 likes

#7

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
― Jim Bishop

306 likes

#8

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: greatness

15471 likes

#9

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9128 likes

#10

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8696 likes

#11

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

7214 likes

#12

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

6315 likes

#13

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

13386 likes

#14

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

11480 likes

#15

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
― Albert Pine

94 likes

#16

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

4647 likes

#17

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
― Anthony Brandt

tags: family

125 likes

#18

“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.”
― Voltaire

41 likes

#19

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: disguises, secret

384 likes

#20

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller

tags: motivational

1322 likes

#21

“In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

140 likes

#22

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

262 likes

#23

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6774 likes

#24

“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
― Bill Hicks

tags: misanthropy, perspective

494 likes

#25

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: humor, humour, mankind, misanthropy

600 likes

#26

“Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell”
― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)

tags: misanthropy, people

177 likes

#27

“and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

141 likes

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