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#1

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

tags: love

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#2

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

12713 likes

#3

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

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#4

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

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#5

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

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#6

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: courage, happiness, work

2775 likes

#7

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

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#8

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#9

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: dreams, together

4833 likes

#10

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11251 likes

#11

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

tags: attributed, fear, inspiration

21275 likes

#12

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

tags: creativity, dreams, gossip, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, paraphrased

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#13

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspiration, strength, tomorrow

1217 likes

#14

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: carpe-diem, food, titanic

1317 likes

#15

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

7591 likes

#16

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151350 likes

#17

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29742 likes

#18

“Find joy in the journey.”
― Thomas S. Monson

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#19

“Don't save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.”
― Thomas S. Monson

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#20

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

1607 likes

#21

“I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.”
― Janet Frame, Towards Another Summer

tags: identity, self-knowledge

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#22

“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ”
― Janet Frame

tags: imagination, inspirational, novel, writing

90 likes

#23

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

tags: athe-plague-of-dives

2642 likes

#24

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

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