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#1

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

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#2

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45230 likes

#3

“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

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#4

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#5

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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#6

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

16632 likes

#7

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

16598 likes

#8

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16288 likes

#9

“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

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#10

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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#11

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

9855 likes

#12

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

11240 likes

#13

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

9525 likes

#14

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

8526 likes

#15

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

8537 likes

#16

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, courage, fear

7276 likes

#17

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

6487 likes

#18

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7212 likes

#19

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

7141 likes

#20

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7744 likes

#21

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, fear

5515 likes

#22

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

5856 likes

#23

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5147 likes

#24

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4328 likes

#25

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

2781 likes

#26

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: denial, honesty, truth

2713 likes

#27

“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

tags: life

2490 likes

#28

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

3121 likes

#29

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

tags: autumn

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#30

“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: racism, respect

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