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#1

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

129052 likes

#2

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#3

“Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.”
― John Mayer, John Mayer - Battle Studies

tags: battlestudies

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#4

“By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . .
But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on”
― John Mayer, John Mayer - Heavier Things

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#5

“Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.”
― John Mayer

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#6

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6240 likes

#7

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

tags: civil-rights

2758 likes

#8

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance

4445 likes

#9

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

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#10

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

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#11

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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#12

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16291 likes

#13

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

tags: athe-plague-of-dives

2639 likes

#14

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

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#15

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

2048 likes

#16

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

3050 likes

#17

“Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
― Colleen McCullough, Caesar

1165 likes

#18

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

tags: love

1588 likes

#19

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

3838 likes

#20

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

3575 likes

#21

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

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#22

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

4147 likes

#23

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

2323 likes

#24

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”
― George Gordon Byron

2187 likes

#25

“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

4658 likes

#26

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

2188 likes

#27

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

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#28