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#1

“Only the living have the privilege of saying they'll fight to the last breath, and words like conviction and resolve don't mean much to a dead man.”
― Raven Damuron Atomais

tags: inspirational, sad-but-true, tales-of-vesperia

1 likes

#2

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

2613 likes

#3

“You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.”
― Hlovate, Versus

tags: inspiration, wisdom

173 likes

#4

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

2824 likes

#5

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic

4706 likes

#6

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

3461 likes

#7

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27862 likes

#8

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46487 likes

#9

“Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: impermanence

56 likes

#10

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational

3317 likes

#11

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

tags: water

3421 likes

#12

“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

2718 likes

#13

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

2810 likes

#14

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

tags: imagination, writing

2554 likes

#15

“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
― James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

844 likes

#16

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer

1291 likes

#17

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading

2839 likes

#18

“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

#19

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1353 likes

#20

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

1082 likes

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