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#1

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

#2

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

2626 likes

#3

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

1345 likes

#4

“I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”
― Helen Thomas

tags: journalism

1355 likes

#5

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2122 likes

#6

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6094 likes

#7

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

2478 likes

#8

“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

1812 likes

#9

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

2930 likes

#10

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1959 likes

#11

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2423 likes

#12

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

2801 likes

#13

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

1264 likes

#14

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

1289 likes

#15

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

tags: inspirational

2161 likes

#16

“What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.”
― Carolyn Kizer

924 likes

#17

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

2446 likes

#18

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

3253 likes

#19

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

1561 likes

#20

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

tags: poetry

3258 likes

#21

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

2398 likes

#22

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

2463 likes

#23

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

3941 likes

#24

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

1432 likes

#25

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

2917 likes

#26

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

1750 likes

#27

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

1679 likes

#28

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

2715 likes

#29

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne

22179 likes

#30

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: hate, love

8092 likes

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