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#1

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3060 likes

#2

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

5095 likes

#3

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: benediction

3146 likes

#4

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: funny, humor, literature, puns

2178 likes

#5

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

1287 likes

#6

“Clear your stuff. Clear your mind.”
― Eric M. Riddle, Stuffology 101: Get Your Mind Out of the Clutter

tags: declutter, motivation, stuff, stuffology-101

7 likes

#7

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

11157 likes

#8

“The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: authenticity, genuineness, identity, individuality, judgement, people, personality, society, superficiality, uniqueness, world

11 likes

#9

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy

2241 likes

#10

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7686 likes

#11

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

2261 likes

#12

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

1967 likes

#14

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

3265 likes

#15

“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

2043 likes

#16

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

1972 likes

#17

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

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

21824 likes

#18

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

1640 likes

#19

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

2938 likes

#20

“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

2427 likes

#21

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

tags: life, writing

2189 likes

#22

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

3225 likes

#23

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5736 likes

#24

“The only big drawback to writing is its negative impact on reading.”
― Michael Kroft

5 likes

#25

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

1735 likes

#26

“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

1962 likes

#27

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

1814 likes

#28

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

3862 likes

#29

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

2837 likes

#30

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis

1154 likes

#31

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

2115 likes

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