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#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135483 likes

#2

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151321 likes

#3

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: reading

4522 likes

#4

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

5433 likes

#5

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

5372 likes

#6

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: life-truths, reality-check

3245 likes

#7

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

2811 likes

#8

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

6691 likes

#9

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

tags: friends, friendship

4303 likes

#10

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

3373 likes

#11

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

9864 likes

#12

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

2441 likes

#13

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

2707 likes

#14

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

7843 likes

#15

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

2055 likes

#16

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

1597 likes

#17

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: forgiveness

2020 likes

#18

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

3792 likes

#19

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: jane-austen

1361 likes

#20

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

tags: mysterious

2063 likes

#21

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

tags: reading

958 likes

#22

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

tags: books, reading

1995 likes

#23

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

984 likes

#24

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

1944 likes

#25

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
― Pearl S. Buck

1459 likes

#26

“The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.”
― Harsha Bhogle, The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers

1309 likes

#27

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
― Thea Dorn

tags: reading

1481 likes

#28

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

42320 likes

#29

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

176978 likes

#30

“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

148352 likes

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