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#1

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

8110 likes

#2

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

tags: parents

485 likes

#3

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

tags: morning, waking-up

2792 likes

#4

“Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

tags: friends, humor

1122 likes

#5

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

13154 likes

#6

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: individuality

3633 likes

#7

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

3576 likes

#8

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

1286 likes

#9

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6091 likes

#10

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

2476 likes

#11

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3063 likes

#12

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27728 likes

#13

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-reading

8491 likes

#14

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

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#15

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177295 likes

#16

“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: books, literature, self-discovery

516 likes

#17