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#1

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

5514 likes

#2

“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

9131 likes

#3

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109335 likes

#4

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books

3158 likes

#5

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

4749 likes

#6

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

3184 likes

#7

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: inspirational

2949 likes

#8

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

1822 likes

#9

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

21631 likes

#10

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

tags: humor, life

119135 likes

#11

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

7214 likes

#12

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

4612 likes

#13

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

1708 likes

#14

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

1563 likes

#15

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

tags: imagination

2272 likes

#16

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

tags: love

1576 likes

#17

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

1916 likes

#18

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

980 likes

#19

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

tags: an-angel-for-emily, emily-todd

1991 likes

#20

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

2906 likes

#21

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

tags: self-sacrifice

1963 likes

#22

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

3195 likes

#23

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6650 likes

#24

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

3411 likes

#25

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

1819 likes

#26

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

3264 likes

#27

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

tags: nonfiction, pretty

1522 likes

#28

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

2428 likes

#29

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

1496 likes

#30

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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