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#121

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: adventure, laughter

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#122

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

6864 likes

#123

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness

4286 likes

#124

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: reading

3102 likes

#125

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

1080 likes

#126

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

tags: endings, happy-endings, writing

4824 likes

#127

“An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.”
― Jill Ker Conway

774 likes

#128

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

2531 likes

#129

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

1376 likes

#130

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

tags: philosophy

3606 likes

#131

“Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”
― Hettie Jones

1046 likes

#132

“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

3425 likes

#133

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

5050 likes

#134

“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
― Kathleen Winsor

tags: genius, hard-worker

954 likes

#135

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

tags: hidden-riches

1955 likes

#136

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”
― Ntozake Shange

1589 likes

#137

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, home, homecoming, homelessness, roots

1395 likes

#138

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

tags: love

2085 likes

#139

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

3051 likes

#140

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

2547 likes

#141

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

tags: bravery, courage, fear

3218 likes

#142

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

tags: history

1899 likes

#143

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: life, poetry

1779 likes

#144

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

1700 likes

#145

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

3029 likes

#146

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

1158 likes

#147

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: conversation, depression, fear, life, speaking, words

1561 likes

#148

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

1213 likes

#149

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

1985 likes

#150

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

1236 likes

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