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#1

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

tags: indulgence, virtue

1905 likes

#2

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#3

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7576 likes

#4

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

3094 likes

#5

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

2327 likes

#6

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

9276 likes

#7

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

23675 likes

#8

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

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#9

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

5616 likes

#10

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

1531 likes

#11

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

tags: ideas

2080 likes

#12

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

tags: reading, words, writing

2718 likes

#13

“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
― Anonymous

tags: misattributed-roald-dahl, paraphrase-of-horace, play, relaxation

1485 likes

#14

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

tags: water

3418 likes

#15

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

3249 likes

#16

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

1667 likes

#17

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding

tags: contentment, inner-peace

1416 likes

#18

“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

tags: art, georgia-o-keeffe, inspirational, wisdom, women-s-issues

807 likes

#19

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind

2613 likes

#20

“[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow

621 likes

#21

“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
― Gerald Durrell

674 likes

#22

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

3756 likes

#23

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

4104 likes

#24

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

2893 likes

#25

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway

1069 likes

#26

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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