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#1

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

tags: books, peace, people, reading, world

#2

“When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.”
― David Baldacci, True Blue

tags: true-blue

112 likes

#3

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9009 likes

#4

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31560 likes

#5

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

9633 likes

#6

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20752 likes

#8

“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

#9

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

2488 likes

#10

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: comfort, home, winter

2373 likes

#11

“At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.”
― Christopher Reeve, Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life

20 likes

#12

“there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it”
― Christopher Reeve, Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life

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#13

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: renewal, summer

4455 likes

#14

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

9135 likes

#15

“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

tags: reading

1864 likes

#16

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

4937 likes

#17

“My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry

tags: friends, inspirational, train

1263 likes

#18

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

13684 likes

#19

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

tags: business, career, inspirational, self-help, self-help-women, women

686 likes

#20

“Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”
― Liz Smith

tags: career, carpe-diem, dreams, goals, reputation

92 likes

#21

“What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.”
― Barbara Sher, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

tags: career

52 likes

#22

“I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

tags: career, job, promotion

55 likes

#23

“Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.”
― Barbara Sher, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

tags: career

36 likes

#24

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

177537 likes

#25

“When someone dies, everything about them becomes past tense. Except for the grief. Grief stays in the present. It’s even worse when you’re angry at the person. Not just for dying. But for how.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

105 likes

#26

“Inaction is a powerful choice”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

98 likes

#27

“We love imperfect people. We can love them and not condone their actions and beliefs.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

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