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#1

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: self-confidence

#2

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

tags: dance, happiness, nursery-rhymes

2198 likes

#3

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: dream, first-sentence

2371 likes

#4

“I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

1041 likes

#5

“A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
― Fran Lebowitz

858 likes

#6

“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”
― Dan Gutman, From Texas with Love

tags: thankfulness

807 likes

#7

“It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.”
― Holly Black

803 likes

#8

“This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

559 likes

#9

“Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: christopher, paolini

832 likes

#10

“Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.”
― Marc Brown

881 likes

#11

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
― Jean Fritz

1077 likes

#12

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
― Jane Austen

824 likes

#13

“But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
― Gloria Naylor

985 likes

#14

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
― Lord Byron

tags: laughter, medicine

1480 likes

#15

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

2062 likes

#16

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

2798 likes

#17

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

5855 likes

#18

“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

39388 likes

#19

“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

3572 likes

#20

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

2945 likes

#21

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

2721 likes

#22

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

3747 likes

#23

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

3917 likes

#24

“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

8139 likes

#25

“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. ”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

1454 likes

#26

“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn's Family

tags: generosity, giving

748 likes

#27

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

tags: comedy, emotions, feeling, life, thinking, tragedy

1277 likes

#28

“Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?”
― Michael Dobbs

612 likes

#29

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
― Joyce Brothers

tags: success

603 likes

#30

“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
― Wendy Wasserstein

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life

580 likes

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