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#1

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31273 likes

#2

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey

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#3

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

1159 likes

#4

“My home is where my books are.”
― Ellen Thompson

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#5

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135697 likes

#6

“Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

tags: aaron-warner, juliette

3021 likes

#7

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

8699 likes

#8

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: mischief

37365 likes

#9

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

tags: humor, laughter

5610 likes

#10

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational

3118 likes

#11

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

2496 likes

#12

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

3731 likes

#13

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

3253 likes

#14

“Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline...It's easy. Incredibly easy.”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

820 likes

#15

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

8643 likes

#16

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

1432 likes

#17

“It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

1536 likes

#18

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

tags: imagination, writing

2555 likes

#19

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

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

3941 likes

#20

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

3303 likes

#21

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17581 likes

#22

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

2144 likes

#23

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

2398 likes

#24

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13931 likes

#25

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

1283 likes

#26

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

tags: change, growth

2147 likes

#27

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

tags: inspirational

1871 likes

#28

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

1811 likes

#29

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

2263 likes

#30

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

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