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#1

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

#2

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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#3

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

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#4

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity

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#5

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

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#6

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

tags: life, people, viewpoint

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#7

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

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#8

“Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

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#9

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#10

“My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

tags: environment

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#11

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring

1848 likes

#12

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: love

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#13

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

tags: reading, words, writing

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#14

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

tags: answers-to-despair, experience, finding-hope, hardship, hollowness, learning, lessons, life, life-discovery, life-lessons, recovery

863 likes

#15

“There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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#16

“let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as mothers.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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