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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
— Dr. Seuss
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss
— Dr. Seuss
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10,549 people liked it
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein
— Albert Einstein
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou
— Maya Angelou
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8,080 people liked it
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss
— Dr. Seuss
"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein
— Albert Einstein
"I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe
— Marilyn Monroe
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus
— Albert Camus
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln
— Abraham Lincoln
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6,642 people liked it
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi
— Mahatma Gandhi
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
— Groucho Marx
"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
— C.S. Lewis
"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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4,930 people liked it
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.
— Apple Computer Inc.
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4,906 people liked it
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon
— John Lennon
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost
— Robert Frost
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4,868 people liked it
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins
— Robert Maynard Hutchins
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare
— William Shakespeare
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4,575 people liked it
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein
— Albert Einstein
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy
— Miss Piggy
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4,236 people liked it
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams
— Douglas Adams
"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
— Albert Einstein
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard
— Elbert Hubbard
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley
— Bessie Anderson Stanley
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt
— Theodore Roosevelt
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)
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