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#1

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: books, learning, love, serenity

#2

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

5382 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

“If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

1119 likes

#5

“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

tags: industriousness, inspirational

1180 likes

#6

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

tags: attitude, inspirational

2350 likes

#7

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

tags: challenge, trap

2341 likes

#8

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: freedom, self

3042 likes

#9

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source

19276 likes

#10

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

7563 likes

#11

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

tags: feminism, qotd

3078 likes

#12

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

3113 likes

#13

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

3382 likes

#14

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

1789 likes

#15

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7669 likes

#16

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

9447 likes

#17

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47059 likes

#18

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

tags: philosophy, religion, science

2744 likes

#19

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

6681 likes

#20

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

4134 likes

#21

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

1090 likes

#22

“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
― Beatrix Potter

1053 likes

#23

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

6585 likes

#24

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

2814 likes

#25

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

1022 likes

#26

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11254 likes

#27

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: benediction

3147 likes

#28

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

2571 likes

#29

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

3490 likes

#30

“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
― James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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