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#1

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119254 likes

#2

“So you keep your ocean, I'll take the Lake.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

1712 likes

#3

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

24276 likes

#4

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

5010 likes

#5

“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

2188 likes

#6

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

2886 likes

#7

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

tags: love

1957 likes

#8

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

1797 likes

#9

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

8121 likes

#10

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

2701 likes

#11

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

2992 likes

#12

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

tags: edward

3191 likes

#13

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

4619 likes

#14

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35680 likes

#15

“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

3559 likes

#16

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

5527 likes

#17

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

1696 likes

#18

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

2322 likes

#19

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3574 likes

#20

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

3049 likes

#21

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16299 likes

#22

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

1354 likes

#23

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

tags: jungism, personhood, shadow-self

1284 likes

#24

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

4445 likes

#25

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

2758 likes

#26

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

4349 likes

#27

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

10011 likes

#28

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: facts, knowledge

2280 likes

#29

“Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life”
― D. Aswini, Saffron - The Blood Swan

tags: death, fantasy, hope, truth

263 likes

#30

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

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