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#1

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

#2

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

tags: love, sonnet

2563 likes

#3

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

12076 likes

#4

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

5510 likes

#5

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love

4782 likes

#6

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

2797 likes

#7

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

tags: self-realization

752 likes

#8

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

28810 likes

#9

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

tags: inspirational

4837 likes

#10

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

3571 likes

#12

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth

3274 likes

#13

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

839 likes

#14

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

tags: love, pain

3000 likes

#15

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

2051 likes

#16

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

3441 likes

#17

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

tags: expectation, hope, life

5637 likes

#18

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

811 likes

#19

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23093 likes

#20

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71711 likes

#21

“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

#22

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

8355 likes

#23

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

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9011 likes

#24

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
― George Sand, Letters of George Sand

905 likes

#25

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work

8143 likes

#26

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

2546 likes

#27

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50602 likes

#28

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle

tags: happiness

1663 likes

#29

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

27269 likes

#30

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

2440 likes

#31

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspiration

8188 likes

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