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#1

“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
― George Sand, Correspondance, 1812-1876; Volume 5

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#2

“The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

tags: humor, jordan, religion

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#3

“I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

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#4

“I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

tags: funny, humor, stupidity

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#5

“I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

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#6

“I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

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#7

“[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.”
― Karl Pilkington

tags: environment, jellyfish, ocean, water

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#8

“One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.”
― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

tags: winning-from-within

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#9

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#10

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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#11

“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”
― Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

tags: humor, mistakes

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#12

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

tags: books, friendship

4245 likes

#13

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

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#14

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#15

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

tags: love, weirdness

21580 likes

#16

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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#17

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
― Leo Rosten

tags: adulthood, fairy-tales

2030 likes

#18

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

6414 likes

#19

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: insanity, love, marriage

1732 likes

#20

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

tags: bibliophilia, books

3689 likes

#21

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

tags: humor, wit

1138 likes

#22

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

38022 likes

#23

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

4066 likes

#24

“I think we all just
love, as best we can, whoever we think can give us what we need.”
― Maculategiraffe, Bran's Story

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#25

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16178 likes

#26

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères

tags: time

1579 likes

#27

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148756 likes

#28

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

177908 likes

#29

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, imagination

24726 likes

#30

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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