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#1

“Impossible to be alone inside something living & listening. ”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: listening, living, love, together, unity

#2

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

1760 likes

#3

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

994 likes

#4

“Upon arriving at the murder scene, they saw Deputy Sheriff Peewee Stubblefield pacing back and forth on the front walk. He stopped and smirked as Sheriff Roosevelt Baker braked the patrol car. He emitted a noise sounding more like a groan than a sigh.”
― lea charles, Easy Peasy: An Appalachian Town Diner Cozy Mystery

tags: cozy-mystery, humor, mystery-suspense, romance

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#5

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

11446 likes

#6

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

3759 likes

#7

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

tags: confidence

6694 likes

#8

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational, life

1043 likes

#9

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: demands

992 likes

#10

“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

1058 likes

#11

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

2058 likes

#12

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

tags: life-questions

1607 likes

#13

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

6509 likes

#14

“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
― Carl Hiaasen

714 likes

#15

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul

1417 likes

#16

“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

tags: humor

4504 likes

#17

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: forgiveness, hiding-place

2039 likes

#18

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

2027 likes

#19

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

1602 likes

#20

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

49809 likes

#21

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51491 likes

#22

“Everybody counts, or nobody counts.”
― Michael Connelly

997 likes

#23

“Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.”
― Jon Scieszka, Funny Business

tags: humor

635 likes

#24

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land

tags: impossibility, inspirational, possibility

852 likes

#25

“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

886 likes

#26

“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
― Wendy Wasserstein

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life

583 likes

#27

“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
― Brenda Ueland

tags: creativity, expression, humanity, talent, writing

589 likes

#28

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

826 likes

#29

“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: culture, heritage, stories, storytelling

444 likes

#30

“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn's Family

tags: generosity, giving

749 likes

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