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#1

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life

3137 likes

#2

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

tags: fear, heart, love, regret

2260 likes

#3

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

tags: intelligence, mind, poverty

4090 likes

#4

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality

2767 likes

#5

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed, fear, inspiration

21273 likes

#6

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

tags: books, literacy, reading

3226 likes

#7

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

tags: life, reading

3927 likes

#8

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35664 likes

#9

“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: evil, judgement, right

1206 likes

#10

“Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

tags: logic, love

1789 likes

#11

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

tags: books, reading

2688 likes

#12

“The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.”
― Kay Ryan, Say Uncle

tags: redemption

926 likes

#13

“But no, Sir, to answer your question. I'm taken, and I have been since I was sixteen," Will confessed”
― Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds, Butterfly Weeds

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#14

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

18672 likes

#15

“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

1626 likes

#16

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life

6284 likes

#17

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

tags: christmas

3124 likes

#18

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

tags: books

1767 likes

#19

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

tags: integrity

1892 likes

#20

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

1380 likes

#21

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

3112 likes

#22

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

1725 likes

#23

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

6467 likes

#24

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

14532 likes

#25

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: logic, love

9155 likes

#26

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

5829 likes

#27

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

3906 likes

#28

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: books

3243 likes

#29

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

2159 likes

#30

“I want you to keep them open...because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

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