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#1

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

9751 likes

#2

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

tags: humor, life

119245 likes

#3

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

2107 likes

#4

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

1515 likes

#5

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

2189 likes

#6

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

tags: inspirational, patience

2689 likes

#7

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

2318 likes

#8

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23775 likes

#9

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

8122 likes

#10

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

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#11

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

tags: life

9168 likes

#12

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

4692 likes

#13

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

1267 likes

#14

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

3196 likes

#15

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

tags: alone, books, friends, solitude

3498 likes

#16

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance

5377 likes

#17

“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
― Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

1267 likes

#18

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

1443 likes

#19

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

4445 likes

#20

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

2758 likes

#21

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

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#22

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6094 likes

#23

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

2259 likes

#24

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

3487 likes

#25

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1959 likes

#26

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. ”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

896 likes

#27

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

2619 likes

#28

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

tags: inspirational

3118 likes

#29

“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

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#30

“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

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