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#1

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

#2

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

22591 likes

#3

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

tags: inspirational

2482 likes

#4

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

2467 likes

#5

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

tags: thinking

7714 likes

#6

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

6854 likes

#7

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities

1962 likes

#8

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

3783 likes

#9

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

5291 likes

#10

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

3226 likes

#11

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11152 likes

#12

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: inspirational

2950 likes

#13

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion

1920 likes

#14

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

4098 likes

#15

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

1997 likes

#16

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

1592 likes

#17

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

2364 likes

#18

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

tags: hmmm

6888 likes

#19

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

4618 likes

#20

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

2537 likes

#21

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

4564 likes

#22

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

2811 likes

#23

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

3239 likes

#24

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

3502 likes

#25

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

21637 likes

#26

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

1398 likes

#27

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119066 likes

#28

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

4614 likes

#29

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

3875 likes

#30

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

1406 likes

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