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#1

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

10443 likes

#2

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: happiness, sadness

6572 likes

#3

“Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.”
― John Lennon

tags: ego, god, life, loser

434 likes

#4

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational

11095 likes

#5

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational

3111 likes

#6

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting

4496 likes

#7

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

2105 likes

#8

“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: art

901 likes

#9

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

427 likes

#10

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes

5690 likes

#11

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need

2311 likes

#12

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

16733 likes

#13

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: death, life

11405 likes

#14

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: death, inspirational, voice

3761 likes

#15

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

2179 likes

#16

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
― Thomas Campbell

tags: death, epitaph, immortality, memory, remembrance

1421 likes

#17

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

2026 likes

#18

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

tags: art, artist

193 likes

#19

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: art

895 likes

#20

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

9515 likes

#21

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

3209 likes

#22

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

5320 likes

#23

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: life, love

13977 likes

#24

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

7643 likes

#25

“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

27 likes

#26

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

6366 likes

#27

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
― Charles Bukowski

2128 likes

#28

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

1890 likes

#29

“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
― Charles Bukowski

1770 likes

#30

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

1730 likes

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