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#1

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

tags: books, humor

#2

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

2002 likes

#3

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29736 likes

#4

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling

10850 likes

#5

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46577 likes

#6

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea

3040 likes

#7

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

1353 likes

#8

“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

385 likes

#9

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

8103 likes

#10

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39289 likes

#11

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2625 likes

#12

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3560 likes

#13

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

3133 likes

#14

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: benediction

3144 likes

#15

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2890 likes

#16

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

2899 likes

#17

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality

2059 likes

#18

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

3260 likes

#19

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

1973 likes

#20

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

6205 likes

#21

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

2487 likes

#22

“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”
― Helen Hooven Santmyer

938 likes

#23

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

8498 likes

#24

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational

3117 likes

#25

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: authors, story, writing

768 likes

#26

“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

412 likes

#27

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: books, reading, truth

7638 likes

#28

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

2263 likes

#29

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

1750 likes

#30

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

1846 likes

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