The Art of Literary Expression: 60 Book Quotes for Instagram

When you wish to inspire your followers, or even need a little motivation yourself, here are ten book quotes to consider:

1. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
2. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
3. “The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.” – Tara Westover, Educated
4. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Arun Gandhi, The Gift of Anger
5. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
6. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
7. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
8. “You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
9. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Essays
10. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Express love or celebrate friendship with these touching book quotes:

1. “You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems
2. “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
3. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
4. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
5. “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
6. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
7. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.” – Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
8. “We are all fools in love.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
9. “To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson, To the World
10. “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” – Jane Austen, Emma

Feed your wanderlust or inspire a spirit of adventure with these quotes:

1. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine, The World is a Book
2. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart, The Fun of It
3. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
4. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt
5. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher, Lean Forward into Your Life
6. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life
7. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius, The Analects
8. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
9. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
10. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller, The Open Door

Stimulate the mind and provoke thought with these thought-provoking quotes:

1. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates, Plato’s Apology
2. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious
3. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
4. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
5. “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel, Night
6. “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
7. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell, 1984
8. “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” – John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
9. “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea.” – C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
10. “What are you? To define is to limit.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Brighten someone’s day or simply add a touch of humor to your Instagram with these quotes:

1. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams
2. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
3. “If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.” – Marie Osmond, Might As Well Laugh About It Now
4. “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace
5. “I can resist everything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
6. “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
7. “I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
8. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
9. “When in doubt, go to the library.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
10. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

Here is a list of some of the BestCheck team’s favourite book quotes!

1. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.” – Paulo Cohelo ‘The Alchemist’
2. “Be worthy love, and love will come.” Louisa May Alcott ‘Little Women’
3. “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Woolf ‘A Room of One’s Own’
4. “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.” Jojo Moyes ‘Me Before You’
5. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de-Saint Exupery ‘The Little Prince’
6. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” J. K. Rowling ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
7. “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.” John Green ‘An Abundance of Katherines’
8. “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” Nathaniel Hawthorne ‘The Scarlet Letter’
9. “He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.” Arundhati Roy ‘The God of Small Things
10. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” Neil Gaiman ‘Coraline’

In conclusion, for all the bibliophiles out there, Instagram has become a treasure trove of book quotes, bringing together literature enthusiasts from around the world. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, insight, or simply a moment of literary escape, these carefully curated snippets offer a glimpse into the vast universe of human imagination and emotions.

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