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#1

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

tags: human-nature, love

2891 likes

#2

“Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

tags: emotion, feeling, sincerity, women

329 likes

#3

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: government, injustice, law

448 likes

#4

“Passion is born deaf and dumb.”
― Honore de Balzac

98 likes

#5

“Love is the poetry of the senses!”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: poetry, quote

51 likes

#6

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

tags: happiness, self-sacrifice

313 likes

#7

“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”
― Balzac

149 likes

#8

“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

#9

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

tags: attitude, inspirational

2351 likes

#10

“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

16165 likes

#11

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

5277 likes

#12

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

2730 likes

#13

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18130 likes

#14

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

2618 likes

#15

“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

tags: inspirational, my-psalm

1280 likes

#16

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6773 likes

#17

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

1794 likes

#18

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry

2957 likes

#19

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

1005 likes

#20

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

3306 likes

#21

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

6679 likes

#22

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

2609 likes

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