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#1

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

tags: inspirational

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#2

“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
― Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

1045 likes

#3

“A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: classics, humor

698 likes

#4

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

4210 likes

#5

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

3183 likes

#6

“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: adversity, survival

138 likes

#7

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines

2131 likes

#8

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

4134 likes

#9

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: optimism

1540 likes

#10

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6898 likes

#11

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

1370 likes

#12

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: definitions, humor, quotations, quotes, satire

1230 likes

#13

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: courage, reputation

2553 likes

#14

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

4571 likes

#15

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

5280 likes

#16

“I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”
― Diane di Prima

769 likes

#17

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

13388 likes

#18

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: flattery, praise, words

1831 likes

#19

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

1604 likes

#20

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

2905 likes

#21

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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#22

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

tags: nonfiction, pretty

1522 likes

#23

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”
― Laurence Sterne

1203 likes

#24

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

1567 likes

#25

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

1396 likes

#26

“S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!”
― Ira Gershwin

485 likes

#27

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

1837 likes

#28

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

2588 likes

#29

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

1360 likes

#30

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

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