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#1

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
― Agatha Christie

#2

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

2590 likes

#3

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

3761 likes

#4

“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

1816 likes

#5

“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!

23683 likes

#6

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

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#7

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

7338 likes

#8

“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: solitude

1258 likes

#9

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

1739 likes

#10

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

tags: coast, island-living, sea

1067 likes

#11

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

2310 likes

#12

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

tags: fate

1601 likes

#13

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

1685 likes

#14

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: hate, love

8078 likes

#15

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

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

135108 likes

#16

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

tags: ink, memory

1410 likes

#17

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: heart, infidelity, relationships, seasons, summer

3234 likes

#18

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

2917 likes

#19

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: truth

11939 likes

#20

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

1063 likes

#21

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

6726 likes

#22

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

13326 likes

#23

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

3682 likes

#24

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

2461 likes

#25

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

tags: inspirational

2248 likes

#26

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

5300 likes

#27

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

2848 likes

#28

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

tags: love

7144 likes

#29

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

tags: dreamers, magic, mermaids, travel, wizard

2417 likes

#30

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, pride

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