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#1

“Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow...”
― Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

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#2

“Saddle Club Forever!" Stevie, Carole, and Lisa said.”
― Bonnie Bryant, Horse Crazy

12 likes

#3

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

3241 likes

#4

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

1693 likes

#5

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3588 likes

#6

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

8090 likes

#7

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

2475 likes

#8

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

1022 likes

#9

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

2809 likes

#10

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2366 likes

#11

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: music, power-of-music

2853 likes

#12

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

3555 likes

#13

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

1214 likes

#15

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

1432 likes

#16

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11274 likes

#17

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

6090 likes

#18

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

2761 likes

#19

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

2950 likes

#20

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

3197 likes

#21

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance

5380 likes

#22

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

tags: truth

16345 likes

#23

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: art, books

2341 likes

#24

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

149 likes

#25

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

tags: travel

4030 likes

#26

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2976 likes

#27

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21888 likes

#28

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

tags: exploration, home, new-beginnings

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#29

“...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

tags: childhood, exploration

509 likes

#30

“Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

tags: hilarious

370 likes

#31

“..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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