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#1

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: individuality

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#2

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27727 likes

#3

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

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9017 likes

#4

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

tags: horses, leadership, war

987 likes

#5

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: expectation, hope, life

5638 likes

#6

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
― George Burns

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#7

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

3572 likes

#8

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

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#9

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74366 likes

#10

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

10848 likes

#11

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

2798 likes

#12

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#13

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

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#14

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

2982 likes

#15

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#16

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom

3808 likes

#17

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

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#18

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

tags: punctuality

1200 likes

#19

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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#20

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

tags: inspiration

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#21

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

5322 likes

#22

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

1265 likes

#23

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

13973 likes

#24

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

9091 likes

#25

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

7278 likes

#26

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

8849 likes

#27