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#1

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: falling-apart, giving-in

11781 likes

#2

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

2983 likes

#3

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

tags: humor, thinking

1384 likes

#4

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

tags: writing

609 likes

#5

“Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly”
― Hank Green

tags: adulthood, growin-up, silly, thoughfulness, vlogbrothers

278 likes

#6

“You are always a little bit wrong”
― Hank Green

tags: always, life, vlogbrothers, wrong

186 likes

#7

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

1029 likes

#8

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31464 likes

#9

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17552 likes

#10

“If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: inspirational, the-hobbit

169 likes

#11

“I'm going on an adventure”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: adventure, the-hobbit

32 likes

#12

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

33794 likes

#13

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

42264 likes

#14

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

42704 likes

#15

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46380 likes

#16

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

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

27188 likes

#17

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

23849 likes

#18

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

572 likes

#19

“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

280 likes

#20

“So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”
― Shirley Jackson

tags: writing

125 likes

#21

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history

2969 likes

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