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#1

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: realismo-magico

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#2

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81807 likes

#3

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109283 likes

#4

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

tags: inspirational, love

76497 likes

#5

“Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there. ”
― Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays

tags: life

142 likes

#6

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

3024 likes

#7

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: inspirational, story-teller, storytelling, your-gift

2494 likes

#8

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

32972 likes

#9

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16290 likes

#10

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

3627 likes

#11

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

12713 likes

#12

“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

5275 likes

#13

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

2442 likes

#14

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

tags: memories, past

2425 likes

#15

“Its a memorial, I said. What have you got in there that you could possible need at a memorial?

That sort of thinking is why you, young lady, have a scar on your sternum, and why my priceless copy of of the Apotropaicon has a broken spine. I prefer preparedness to a last minute scramble, thank you.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

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#16

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

8466 likes

#17

“What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.”
― Carolyn Kizer

924 likes

#18

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

tags: writing-life

1672 likes

#19

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick

1488 likes

#20

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

1390 likes

#21

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2475 likes

#22

“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-humor

960 likes

#23

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

tags: education, reading

2621 likes

#24

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

5605 likes

#25

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

2377 likes

#26

“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: agency, choices, love

3219 likes

#27

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

1880 likes

#28

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20723 likes

#29

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

3729 likes

#30

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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