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Some Favourite Quotes


Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
plato.

It is our choices far more than our abilites that show us for who we truly are.
dumbedore.

For in the end what are we, who are convinced that suicide is obligatory and yet cannot resolve to commit it, other than the weakest, the most inconsistent and, speaking frankly, the most stupid of people, making such a song and dance with our banalities?
tolstoy.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
virginia woolf.

That you are here—-that life exists and identity, 
that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse…
walt whitman.

That best portion of a good man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
william wordsworth.

 

Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

e.m forster.

The only difference between our secrets is whether we let them evolve into tales of fear or heroism.
post secret.

We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. ‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time’ lasts forever.
phillip pullman.

Art is the product, not of intellect, wit or superior faculties of understanding, but of imagination.
stephen fry.

I loved you, so i drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars to earn you Freedom.
t.e lawrence.

Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
john donne.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls.

j.m barrie.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
j k rowling.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
edmund burke.

Ignorance may be bliss but it is not a very noble goal.
margaret edson.

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
william shakespeare. 

And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
ray bradbury.

To have another language is to possess another soul.
charlmagne.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
charles dickens.

 

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