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#2

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James

tags: beauty, english, literature, summer

1525 likes

#3

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

tags: love, relationships

6312 likes

#4

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

4558 likes

#5

“People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: alone, charge, creativity, designer, energy, fame, fashion, karl-lagerfeld, loneliness, lonely, media, quote, quotes, recharge, solitude, victory

416 likes

#6

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: inspirational

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#7

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
― Joan Crawford

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#8

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

tags: childhood, disease, literature

2598 likes

#9

“Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
― Kabir

tags: ecstatic-poetry, god, spirituality

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#10

“There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the priests of the different religious sects, who dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of day-light; and scowl on it the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies on which they live. In this the Presbyterian clergy take the lead. The tocsin is sounded in all their pulpits, and the first alarm denounced is against the particular creed of Doctr. Cooper; and as impudently denounced as if they really knew what it is.

[Letter to José Francesco Corrê a Da Serra - Monticello, April 11, 1820]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: clergy, creed, dread, duperies, fatal-harbinger, opposition, presbyterian, priests, pulpit, religious-sects, science, science-vs-religion, university-of-virginia, william-and-mary, witches

92 likes

#11

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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#12

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#13

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up”
― Isabelle Laflèche

tags: j-adore-new-york

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#14

“Some say if life hands you lemons, make lemonade. I say if you're dealing with sour grapes, drink lots of wine.”
― Isabelle Laflèche, J'Adore Paris

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#15

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost

1899 likes

#16

“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: art, books, language, life, reading, words

185 likes

#17

“Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

tags: life

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#18

“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

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#19

“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”
― Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

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#20

“The offices are decorated with neon-Louis XVI furniture and are dominated by grey, Mr. Dior’s favourite colour when he opened the famous house on avenue Montaigne back in 1947. The design is even more stunning than I remembered: both chic and understated, with lots of open space –the apex of luxury. The silk curtains dressing the window fall to the floor like ball gowns, delicate silver vases holding pink roses have been artfully placed throughout the room, and grey and white settees and oval-backed chairs provided artful seating areas.”
― Isabelle Lafleche, J'Adore Paris

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#21

“Françoise Sagan once said, There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.”
― Isabelle Lafleche, J'adore Paris: A Novel

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#22

“Time flies when all you do is work.”
― Isabelle Lafleche, J'adore New York: A Novel

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#23

“There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: broken-families, divorce, family, family-ties, forgiveness, hate, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, marriage, moving-on, soul-ties, the-nature-of-family, true-family

2518 likes

#24

“And if, for some awful reason, you forget that money is a game, a make-believe concept that some people invented, you could be led back into the complex layered world of Should. And here, the loss isn’t a financial one. You are the cost. Is it worth it?”
― ELLE LUNA, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

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#25

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

tags: animal-protection, animals, deer, humor, hunting, killing, taxidermy

1549 likes

#26

“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality

1180 likes

#27

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,”
― Isabelle Lafleche, J'adore Paris: A Novel

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#28

“The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
― Isabelle Lafleche, J'adore New York: A Novel

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#29

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177121 likes

#30

“Sharing your success with others reveals your true humanity. Don't ever be afraid to open your heart to that practice. It has made all the world of difference to me.”
― Andrea Michaels, Reflections of a Successful Wallflower: Lessons in Business; Lessons in Life

tags: humanity, success

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#31

“I learned a lesson I’d never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit

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