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#1

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life

6276 likes

#2

“...be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

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#3

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: books, feminist, reading

4161 likes

#4

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

9724 likes

#5

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

tags: an-angel-for-emily, emily-todd

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#6

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23766 likes

#7

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

4662 likes

#8

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

3839 likes

#9

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

1444 likes

#10

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6461 likes

#11

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

9020 likes

#12

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7687 likes

#13

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

2262 likes

#14

“Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.”
― Louise Rennison, Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

323 likes

#15

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

1577 likes

#16

“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
― Allan Gurganus

1363 likes

#17

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

tags: women

1876 likes

#18

“No I’m not. It might benefit you to go back and have a look at what some of our founding fathers really believed, instead of relying so much on what people these days tell you they believed.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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#19

“I heard ‘Equal rights for all; special privileges for none,’ and to me it didn’t mean anything but what it said.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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#20

“Afterward I tried to find something to explain what had happened—was it cloudy, were the stars out? But the night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren’t doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.”
― Carole Radziwill, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

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#21

“Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it.”
― Carole Radziwill, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

tags: literary-author

3 likes

#22

“We've all lost something along the way.”
― Po Bronson, "Why Do I Love These People?": Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family

tags: families, loss, love, struggle

75 likes

#23

“If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon”
― Po Bronson

tags: expectation, success, watermelon

60 likes

#24

“Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”
― Po Bronson

38 likes

#25

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

4321 likes

#26

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

4625 likes

#27

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

4874 likes

#28

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

5044 likes

#29

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational

3317 likes

#30

“Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.”
― Jeffrey Pfeffer

tags: leadership, mentoring, questions, teaching, thinking

38 likes

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