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#1

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

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#2

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

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#3

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

1410 likes

#4

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

1816 likes

#5

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

1966 likes

#6

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#7

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

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#8

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

tags: life

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#9

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1960 likes

#10

“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

682 likes

#11

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4748 likes

#12

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

2490 likes

#13

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

1280 likes

#14

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

1738 likes

#15

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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#16

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

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#17

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

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#18

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

11354 likes

#19

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
― Khalil Gibran

2805 likes

#20

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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#21

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

tags: generosity, pride

1119 likes

#22

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age

2039 likes

#23

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

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#24

“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”
― Robinson Jeffers

tags: nature, poetry, the-continent-s-end

967 likes

#25

“I鈥檒l love you, dear, I鈥檒l love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

1813 likes

#26

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

1409 likes

#27

“When I discover who I am, I鈥檒l be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

3952 likes

#28

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

23690 likes

#29

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

1580 likes

#30

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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