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#1

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

tags: humor, wit

1136 likes

#2

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

42064 likes

#3

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109390 likes

#4

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

2357 likes

#5

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

tags: hope, sun

1911 likes

#6

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

tags: silence

1218 likes

#7

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature

tags: life, opportunity

1489 likes

#8

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days

tags: foolishness, inspirational

1306 likes

#9

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

tags: humor

1444 likes

#10

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

tags: funny

3001 likes

#11

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, self-determination

5080 likes

#12

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

2366 likes

#13

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

4012 likes

#14

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”
― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814

847 likes

#15

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

tags: hope

4017 likes

#16

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

1652 likes

#17

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

1683 likes

#18

“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”
― Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem

tags: life, nobility

554 likes

#19

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

8243 likes

#20

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

tags: optimism, pessimism

2213 likes

#21

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational

4367 likes

#22

“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
― Kingsley Amis

tags: consciousness

830 likes

#23

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

1617 likes

#24

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

7233 likes

#25

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

1960 likes

#26

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: heroes, inspirational

2863 likes

#27

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

2183 likes

#28

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

1368 likes

#29

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

1743 likes

#30

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
― Anthony Trollope

tags: writing

847 likes

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