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#1

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

tags: naruto

#2

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

3112 likes

#3

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

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#4

“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

tags: books, literature, nose, reading

1227 likes

#5

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: perspective, positive-attitude

3200 likes

#6

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

4491 likes

#7

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

16212 likes

#8

“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”
― Mark Twain, Who Is Mark Twain?: Unpublished Personal Papers and Essays―Twenty-Six Works of Humor and Satire

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#9

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books

2751 likes

#10

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

tags: humor, obedience

3543 likes

#11

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

1728 likes

#12

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

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#13

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain

1142 likes

#14

“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

1952 likes

#15

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

3665 likes

#16

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: happiness

11981 likes

#17

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

1693 likes

#18

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

tags: death

1613 likes

#19

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

2405 likes

#20

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

2592 likes

#21

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime

3192 likes

#22

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
― judy blume

2303 likes

#23

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

1664 likes

#24

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary

2227 likes

#25

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

2563 likes

#26

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

1863 likes

#27

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13151 likes

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