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#1

“She batted those
eyelashes at me so hard I thought I felt a breeze.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened

tags: humorous

#2

“Retail therapy—usually one of my first resorts—wasn’t working; I felt like a cat that smelled pit bull.”
― M.L.N. Hanover, Vicious Grace

tags: humor

9 likes

#3

“We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you.
And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn’t often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire
club.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Reckoning

tags: humor

9 likes

#4

“Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Reckoning

tags: humor

17 likes

#6

“Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!”
― Juliet Marillier, Cybele's Secret

tags: paganism, spirituality, worship

11 likes

#7

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

8357 likes

#8

“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

1377 likes

#9

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

tags: love, pain

3006 likes

#10

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
― George Burns

936 likes

#11

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

3572 likes

#12

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

10845 likes

#13

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

28825 likes

#14

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7682 likes

#15

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

16447 likes

#16

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

tags: relationships

2477 likes

#17

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

tags: life, living, philosophy, women

4923 likes

#18

“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”
― Rikki Ducornet, The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

tags: books, reading

48 likes

#19

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

1317 likes

#20

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

tags: inspiration, love, romance

2246 likes

#21

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

tags: inspiration

3538 likes

#23

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

10629 likes

#24

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

tags: life, science, wisdom

13983 likes

#25

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

9094 likes

#26

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

22509 likes

#27

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

11451 likes

#28

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

8855 likes

#29

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21433 likes

#30

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

2863 likes

#31

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

22598 likes

#32

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

28806 likes

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