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#1

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

#2

“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

16168 likes

#3

“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: homecoming

934 likes

#4

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

1994 likes

#5

“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: drinking, sacrilege

634 likes

#6

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20179 likes

#7

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

7382 likes

#8

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

2957 likes

#9

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: writing

1221 likes

#10

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

9453 likes

#11

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

7854 likes

#12

“Explore daily the will of God.”
― C.G. Jung

72 likes

#13

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

tags: truth

1159 likes

#14

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

1389 likes

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