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15 The Notebook Quotes that Will Make you Fall in Love
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15 The Notebook Quotes that Will Make you Fall in Love

The Notebook is an American romantic drama that melted the hearts of viewers everywhere. The movie is based on Nicholas Sparks' eponymous novel, and stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.The plot starts in a modern-day nursing home, where an elderly man reads a love story from his notebook to a female patient that suffers from dementia.In the story, Noah, a poor young man, falls in love with Allie, an upper-class girl, but her parents don’t approve of their relationship, which breaks the couple apart.As the years pass, the main characters eventually end up together, and we find out that the two old patients at the beginning of The Notebook are, in fact, Noah and Allie. If you don’t get emotional during the movie or while reading the book, you’ll most certainly cry at the end of the story.Here are 15 The Notebook quotes that will make you fall in love with… love:So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday.– NoahIt was real, wasn't it? You and me. Such a long time ago, we were just a couple of kids. But we really loved each other, didn't we?– AllieShe made me who I am and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat.-- NoahBut despite their differences, they had one important thing in common… they were crazy about each other.– DukeA person can get used to anything if given enough time.-- Nicholas SparksI am nothing special. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.– NoahI think our love can do anything we want it to.– DukeNo matter what happens to us, everyday spent with you is the best day of my life.-- NoahThe best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.– NoahSummer romances end for all kinds of reasons. They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.– DukeWould you stop thinking about what everyone wants? What do you want?– NoahThis is just a fight we're having and tomorrow it will be like it never happened, right?– AllieI could be whatever you want. You just tell me what you want, and I'm gonna be that for you.– NoahPoets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me.– NoahThe scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.-- Nicholas Sparks

20 The Shawshank Redemption Quotes on Freedom and Hope
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20 The Shawshank Redemption Quotes on Freedom and Hope

We can’t talk about great movies without mentioning The Shawshank Redemption. Released in 1994 and back then considered a noble disappointment, The Shawshank Redemption went on to become one of the most beloved movies of all time.Based on Stephen King’s novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, and directed by Frank Darabont, the movie is an uplifting prison drama. If you haven’t seen it yet, stop whatever you’re doing and watch it! We promise you’ll love it.The film tells the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a banker who is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. He is given two life sentences and sent to the notorious Shawshank State Penitentiary, but maintains his innocence.The harsh realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy. Luckily his fellow inmate Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman) pulls some strings and helps the new recruit avoid more trouble.Andy has a strong personality and doesn’t crack under pressure -- his resilience and imperishable hope helped him prevail behind the bars.The Shawshank Redemption is a masterpiece that became one of highest rated fan reviewed films of all time and is still broadcast regularly.Here are 20 The Shawshank Redemption quotes on freedom and hope:Salvation lies within.I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.I tell you those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream.That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you. I was in the path of the tornado. I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has.The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.Every man's got a breaking point.I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really, pressure and time. The funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.These walls are funny. First you hate ’em. Then you get used to ’em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can’t. I guess it comes down to a simple choice really. Get busy living or get busy dying.Writing about yourself seems to be a lot like sticking a branch into clear river-water and rolling up the muddy bottom.It goes back to what I said about Andy wearing his freedom like an invisibility coat, about how he never really developed a prison mentality. His eyes never got that dull look.There are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.What was right with him he’d only give you a little at a time. What was wrong with him he kept bottled up inside.

23 The Great Gatsby Quotes on Dreams and Despair
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23 The Great Gatsby Quotes on Dreams and Despair

Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is considered a classic of American literature and has resulted in a number of film and television adaptations.Sadly, the author didn’t live enough to see his book become such a success. The novel sold fewer than 20,000 copies in its first run and some critics called the author’s style “painfully forced” and the book “a dud.”The Great Gatsby is about the efforts of this young man, Jay Gatsby, to reinvent himself. We see the whole story from the narrator’s perspective - Nick Carraway, which moved out to New York from Mid-west and now lives next door to Gatsby.The main character is an everlasting dreamer with a reallyextravagant lifestyle. He lives in a gigantic Gothic mansion and throws glamorousparties every Saturday night. But his persona is a complete invention as Gatsbyactually grew up poor and this isn’t even his real name. All his efforts tobecome rich are dedicated to winning back the woman he loves.The Great Gatsby explores themes such as decadence, idealism, love, resistance to change, social status, and of course, excess.Here are 23 The Great Gatsby quotes on glitz, glamour and despair.Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had.Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.As I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.Their eyes met and they stared together at each other, alone in space.I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.They're a rotten crowd... You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.It takes two to make an accident.She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

24 A Tale of Two Cities Quotes That Are Simply Incredible
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24 A Tale of Two Cities Quotes That Are Simply Incredible

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical fiction novel written by prolific author Charles Dickens. In a departure from his other works, Dickens chose for this story fewer characters and a less complicated plot.The novel is set in the 18th century (before and duringthe French Revolution), where France and England were ruled by oppression, fearand torture. The upper class enjoyed all the luxury, while common people diedof starvation. A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Dr.Alexandre Manette, who was unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille inParis, and then released to live in London with his daughter, Lucie. This “Dickensian” masterpiece explores themes that are still relevant today -– revenge and its consequences, honor versus dishonor, and the negative effects of a corrupt ruling system.With over 200 million copies sold, A Tale of Two Cities is one of the best-selling novels of all time. The book is a dense classic and an excellent choice of reading material for senior high school students that has also been adapted for film, radio, and the stage.Here are 24 A Tale of Two Cities quotes that are simply incredible:It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me.A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.Remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in is misery!Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.Into his handsome face, the bitter waters of captivity had worn; but, he covered up their tracks with a determination so strong, that he held the mastery of them even in his sleep.But we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimesWe'll start to forget a place once we left it.Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.Is it possible! Yes. And a beautiful world we live in, when it IS possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but doneI am sure that he is capable of good things, gentle things, even magnanimous things.It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

25 Pride and Prejudice Quotes on the Impact of First Impressions
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25 Pride and Prejudice Quotes on the Impact of First Impressions

Written by Jane Austen and first published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is easily one of the author’s greatest novels and her most popular one. Set in rural England in the early 19th century, the book is filled with humor and depicts manners, education, money, and marriage as they were perceived in the past.Pride and Prejudice tells the story of witty, stubborn, and enchanting Elizabeth Bennet – the character we’ve all fallen in love with. Moreover, it centers on the conflicted relationship between Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner.The protagonist of the book despises Darcy at first for being arrogant and self-absorbed. Later on, she learns a few things about the repercussions of hasty judgments and what it actually means to be a genuinely good person. She finally realizes she has been prejudiced against Darcy and his wealth, and that their pride hurt them both.With more than 20 million copies sold, Pride and Prejudice has been adapted for drama, sequels, and film. In the 2005 movie adaptation, Keira Knightley played the perfect Elizabeth Bennet.Here are 25 Pride and Prejudice quotes on first impressions:Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.Nothing is more deceitful… than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them forever.We are all fools in love.It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.Do anything rather than marry without affection.To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.Those who do not complain are never pitied.You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Angry people are not always wise.It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at firstThe distance is nothing when one has motive.Do not give way to useless alarm… though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.There is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

24 To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes on Understanding People and Life
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24 To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes on Understanding People and Life

Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and quickly became a best-seller. To Kill a Mockingbird is considered standard reading for millions of young people.The book is about a girl named Scout growing up during the Depression in Alabama, and the things she learns about people and life over the course of two years.The little girl had a quick mind so she grasped most lessons from her father, Atticus, and the rest from her own experience. The book is filled with life lessons and it brilliantly depicts how people can develop ugly behaviors towards others, because of a series of misconceptions they get exposed to while being young.Scout sees for herself that even the justice system is tainted by unfairness and at only 8 years she grasps a valuable lesson about empathy -- we can only understand others by putting ourselves in their shoes.The novel won thePulitzer Prize and it inspired a generation of young lawyers during the civilrights movement. In 1962, the book was made into a memorable movie, with Gregory Peck winning an Academy Award for his portrayal of Atticus.Here are 24 To Kill a Mockingbird quotes that you’lllove:People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for.Things are never as bad as they seem.It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corn cribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.Things are always better in the morning.You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.It's not time to worry yet.When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.

25 The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes on Beauty and Corruption
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25 The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes on Beauty and Corruption

Oscar Wilde’s life was all about art, aesthetic, beauty, morality, and love. The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of his most controversial works that blends all these aspects into one classic novel, narrated with incisive wit.The bookdepicts the story of a young, handsome man that didn’t reflect too much onbeauty and youth until a famous artist painted a large portrait of him thatimmortalized the two things that he would later value above all else.No oneloathed the idea of getting old more than Dorian, so he wanted to experienceeverything, constantly reflecting on questions of morality and sin. His biggestwish was that his portrait would age instead of himself.Besides indulging in allnumber of vices in his pursuit of pleasure, Dorian Gray was also looking forlove and passion in their purest form.Gray becomes a corrupted soul, an embodiment of his shadow, and the book ends like it begins -- with the portrait and its natural state of beauty. We’ve revealed somehighlights, but there’s so much more left for you to read. Still not curious?Here are 25 The Picture of Dorian Gray quotes on beauty and corruption:The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.I know what conscience is, to begin with […] It is the divinest thing in us […] I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.Each of us has heaven and hell in him.There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.Some things are more precious because they don't last long.I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest that gives us absolution.Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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14 The Wizard of Oz Quotes That Hold Priceless Lessons

Written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900, The Wizard of Oz (or The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) is one of the best-known children stories in American literature that has been translated or adapted into more than fifty languages.The story of Oz is a classic because it blends elements of traditional magic, humor, timeless characters and delight. And let’s not forget about the inspiring life lessons the author shares with his readers.The book has become an established part of multiple cultures. In certain countries some of the characters are replaced, but the story remains quite the same. The Wizard of Oz has also generated a long series of sequels, musicals, stage plays, movies and TV shows.The novel was a success right from the start - by the time it entered the public domain, The Wizard of Oz has sold more than 3 million copies. The book that Baum dedicated to his beloved wife was named "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" by the Library of Congress.Here’s our list of 14 The Wizard of Oz quotes that will forever inspire you:Dorothy: How can you talk, if you haven't got a brain?The Scarecrow: I don't know. But, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. -The Wizard of OzIf I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right? – DorothyYou've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself. – Glinda the Good WitchAs for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. - The Wizard of OzYou have plenty of courage, I am sure. All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. - The Wizard of OzNo matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home. - DorothyI shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. – Tin ManA baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get. – The Wizard of OzYou people with hearts, have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. – Tin ManYou are under the unfortunate impression that just because you run away you have no courage; you’re confusing courage with wisdom. – The Wizard of OzIf anyone treads on my toes or sticks a pin into me, it doesn’t matter, for I can’t feel it. But I do not want people to call me a fool… - ScarecrowCourage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What have they got that I ain’t got? - Cowardly LionDorothy: Weren’t you frightened?Wizard of Oz: Frightened? Child, you’re talking to a man who’s laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe… I was petrified.

20 Brilliant 1984 Quotes that Will Blow Your Mind
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20 Brilliant 1984 Quotes that Will Blow Your Mind

Written by English author George Orwell, the novel 1984 is considered one of the most terrifying novels ever written; not because it revolves around scary fictional characters, but because it shows what horrifying actions individuals can take when given too much power.As you’ve probably guessed, the book is set in the year 1984, where the “Party” takes full control over most of the world’s population. Individualism and independent thinking are banned, everyone is manipulated and under constant surveillance -- “Big Brother” is watching them.The politics and psychology of 1984 run very deep. The members of the “Party” use brutal force and mind control to make sure individuals are kept in line. Anyone who tries to live by their own rules is labeled a traitor and terribly punished.The dystopian novel 1984 focuses on the darker side of life, forcing the reader to think about the consequences of giving someone too much control over one’s life, making it impossible not to feel anger and helplessness while reading it.However, the picture the book paints can also act as a powerful catalyst for taking action and finding ways to have a positive impact on the world.Here are 20 brilliant 1984 quotes that will blow your mind:But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.In the face of pain there are no heroes.The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.

24 The Alchemist Quotes to Make You Go After Your Dreams
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24 The Alchemist Quotes to Make You Go After Your Dreams

Even though it was not an instant success after being published, The Alchemist eventually became a best-selling self-help book.Often referred to as "a wonderful tale, a metaphor of life" or a "charming story", the novel written by Paulo Coelho was translated into more than 70 languages.The book tells the story of an Andalusian shepherd boy who starts a journey in search of a worldly treasure at the Egyptian pyramids after having a recurring dream – a prophecy, as a Romani fortune-teller interprets it. The young shepherd’s adventure ends with him finding more riches than he ever hoped for.The Alchemist’s main theme is finding one’s destiny. The whole journey teaches us to follow our hearts and dreams; we should always seize the opportunities life offers in the pursuit of whatever makes us happy. It's a novel that inspired people all over the world.Here are 24 The Alchemist quotes to help you live your dreams:And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny.Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.