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#1

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
― Leo Rosten

tags: adulthood, fairy-tales

2029 likes

#2

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7579 likes

#3

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

3743 likes

#4

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

2694 likes

#5

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39257 likes

#6

“I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: life, motivation

251 likes

#7

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

3095 likes

#8

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

4074 likes

#9

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

tags: deceit, honesty, hypocrisy, morality, shock, top-8

3586 likes

#10

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

5603 likes

#11

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire

1772 likes

#12

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

23675 likes

#13

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

2019 likes

#14

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

tags: inspirational

3685 likes

#15

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

2058 likes

#16

“Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

791 likes

#17

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
― Peter Drucker

tags: knowldege

821 likes

#18

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

3457 likes

#19

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

8119 likes

#20

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

3558 likes

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