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#1

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

#2

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

tags: feminism

1510 likes

#3

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

tags: future

1598 likes

#4

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

2689 likes

#5

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

tags: self-sacrifice

1963 likes

#6

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

3644 likes

#7

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

1791 likes

#8

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

tags: citizenship, identity, world

1552 likes

#9

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

3889 likes

#10

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

2728 likes

#11

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

1506 likes

#12

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset

5314 likes

#13

“What a long strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

1425 likes

#14

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

1745 likes

#15

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

3941 likes

#16

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

2917 likes

#17

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

1894 likes

#18

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust

9021 likes

#19

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

tags: life

994 likes

#20

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

3394 likes

#21

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

4803 likes

#22

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

tags: water

3417 likes

#23

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: bravery, courage, fear

3213 likes

#24

“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
― Walker Evans

890 likes

#25

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

2357 likes

#26

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

tags: humor, obedience

3543 likes

#27

“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

tags: jamaica-kincaid, lucy

1630 likes

#28

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13152 likes

#29

“Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

403 likes

#30

“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

694 likes

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