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#1

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

1986 likes

#2

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

8491 likes

#3

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age

2037 likes

#4

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

tags: community, eating, food, life, sharing

1400 likes

#5

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
― Derek Walcott

tags: poetry

1657 likes

#6

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

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

3940 likes

#7

“What I am
is tired of jam.”
― Russell Hoban

720 likes

#8

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

1283 likes

#9

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

2111 likes

#10

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

1514 likes

#11

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

tags: art, calling, life

3813 likes

#12

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

2263 likes

#13

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

tags: brain, mind

3735 likes

#14

“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
― Mo Yan

1159 likes

#15

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

2518 likes

#16

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

1807 likes

#17

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

1407 likes

#18

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

1262 likes

#19

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

2713 likes

#20

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

3951 likes

#21

“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!

23679 likes

#22

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

2542 likes

#23

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: spring

2461 likes

#24

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

tags: books, inspirational, reading

2759 likes

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