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#1

“Sometimes i worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
― Lily Tomlin, Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female

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#2

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”
― Edith Sitwell

126 likes

#3

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

tags: life, words

7833 likes

#4

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

tags: death, life

17164 likes

#5

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47067 likes

#6

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year

tags: inspirational, love

1792 likes

#7

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

10630 likes

#8

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: conscience, innocence

2856 likes

#9

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

2238 likes

#10

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: adoration, fidelity, love

1900 likes

#11

“Sleeping with another girl does not always mean you are a lesbian, sometimes it just means the central heating needs fixing”
― Amy Mah, Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire

tags: girls, vampire

39 likes

#12

“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

tags: corny, funny, ironside

1105 likes

#13

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: greatness

15460 likes

#14

“You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want. ”
― Holly Black, Ironside

352 likes

#15

“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

1005 likes

#16

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

5162 likes

#17

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

13373 likes

#18

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

9421 likes

#19

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

42402 likes

#20

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

6115 likes

#21

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

10769 likes

#22

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: thinking

1372 likes

#23

“be like a bee and put your life into the sting!”
― Joshua Heights, Tear Avenger

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#24

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

tags: marriage

1347 likes

#25

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

1006 likes

#26

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

13804 likes

#27

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

3382 likes

#28

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

1683 likes

#29

“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
― Richard Ford

739 likes

#30

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7665 likes

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