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#1

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

13967 likes

#2

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

tags: change, human

5412 likes

#3

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

tags: inspirational

2247 likes

#4

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: memory

3380 likes

#5

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

2993 likes

#6

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
― Francesco Petrarch

726 likes

#7

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148489 likes

#8

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

128955 likes

#9

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151561 likes

#10

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88115 likes

#11

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92227 likes

#12

“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

tags: lost-love, love

1777 likes

#13

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: nothing

800 likes

#14

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

tags: humanity, stories, storytelling

1044 likes

#15

“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
― Jessamyn West

tags: inspirational, writing

613 likes

#16

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119129 likes

#17

“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”
― Will Self

tags: criticism, inspirational

633 likes

#18

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: hindsight, regret

3226 likes

#19

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

16022 likes

#20

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

11930 likes

#21

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

5679 likes

#22

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: fear, suffering

4661 likes

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