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#1

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

#2

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

tags: absence, loss

2687 likes

#3

“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

tags: books, reading, sufficiency

1113 likes

#4

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

338 likes

#5

“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: country-life, human-nature

209 likes

#6

“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”
― John Steinbeck

147 likes

#7

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

247 likes

#8

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

18383 likes

#9

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

5849 likes

#10

“You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
― Harper Lee

tags: atticus-finch, determination, success, to-kill-a-mockingbird, winning

119 likes

#11

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”
― Harper Lee

tags: books, reading, thinking

136 likes

#12

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

3953 likes

#13

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing

1890 likes

#14

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity

1489 likes

#15

“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

407 likes

#16

“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.”
― David Baldacci, Absolute Power

42 likes

#17

“Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.”
― David Baldacci, The Whole Truth

12 likes

#18

“There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.”
― Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict

213 likes

#19

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."

("The Castle")”
― Michael Connelly

tags: perseverance, writing, writing-craft

133 likes

#20

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: death, life

11432 likes

#21

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

tags: profound

4712 likes

#22

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: confidence

2264 likes

#23

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: inspirational

232 likes

#24

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109342 likes

#25

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
― Robert Frost

7192 likes

#26

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
― Robert Frost

tags: advice, caution, cautionary, inspirational

1227 likes

#27

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
― Robert Frost

410 likes

#28

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost

tags: aging, future-plans

689 likes

#29

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle

tags: faith

3116 likes

#30

“Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!”
― max lucado

584 likes

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