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#1

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#3

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130236 likes

#4

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88115 likes

#5

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

32971 likes

#6

“Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.”
― Neil Gaiman

8 likes

#7

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: philosophy, truth

1056 likes

#8

“Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.”
― Barbara Rogan

tags: life-philosophy

12 likes

#9

“I need, therefore I imagine.”
― Carlos Fuentes

839 likes

#11

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9012 likes

#12

“I realize we can destroy ourselves in ways so deep we'll never return to the place we were before we started the destruction" - Valentine”
― Lisa Samson, Embrace Me

11 likes

#13

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

2979 likes

#14

“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

tags: humility, pain

600 likes

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