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#1

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

tags: love, madness

#2

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

tags: kindness

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#3

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

tags: dream, fate, hope

2587 likes

#4

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

33882 likes

#5

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

tags: books, reading

2191 likes

#6

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

4561 likes

#7

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

tags: women

8244 likes

#8

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

tags: bibliophilia, books

3691 likes

#9

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

tags: human-nature, love

2887 likes

#10

“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

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#11

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: evil, good

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#12

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

tags: love, weirdness

21584 likes

#13

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

tags: alchemy, writing

2036 likes

#14

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

3936 likes

#15

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

3027 likes

#16

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

14023 likes

#17

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères

tags: time

1578 likes

#18

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women

6527 likes

#19

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

tags: love

1430 likes

#20

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

tags: books, literacy, reading

3227 likes

#21

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

tags: life, reading

3926 likes

#22

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

8659 likes

#23

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

tags: impossible

2670 likes

#24

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

tags: books, magic, reading

17582 likes

#25

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

18401 likes

#26

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

2581 likes

#27

“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: rhett-butler-to-scarlett

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