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#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

#2

“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of...”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: broken-heart

19 likes

#3

“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

tags: idea, setting-trends, social-behavior

236 likes

#4

“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

167 likes

#5

“Emotion is contagious.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

183 likes

#6

“We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.”
― Malcolm Gladwell

63 likes

#7

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing

6806 likes

#8

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

7975 likes

#9

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

5801 likes

#10

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

9551 likes

#11

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

9814 likes

#12

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

3636 likes

#13

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

177594 likes

#14

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135706 likes

#15

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27901 likes

#16

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18876 likes

#17

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31273 likes

#18

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

13156 likes

#19

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13930 likes

#20

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

8705 likes

#21

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

16630 likes

#22

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

6413 likes

#23

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

7967 likes

#24

“Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader”
― Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucks™ Volume 1: Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership

tags: inspirational-quote, leadership, quotes-to-live-by, sacrifice, servant-leader

9 likes

#25

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

4318 likes

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