Quotes - B. (beautifullybooksy) Showing 1-30 of 182

#1

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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#2

“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
― John O'hara

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#3

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

tags: poetry

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#4

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

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

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#5

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#6

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#7

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

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#8

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

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#9

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
― Marianne Moore

tags: emotion, silence

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#10

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

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#11

“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

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#12

“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

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#13

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

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#14

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

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#15

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

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#16

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

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#17

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

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#18

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

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

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#19

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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#20

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: existence, truth

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#21

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

tags: life-s-journey, poetry-quotes, solitude

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#22

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

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#23

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

tags: lyricism, poetry

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#24

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

tags: books

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#25

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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