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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,833 people liked it

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
— Henry Miller

tags: life
222 people liked it

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
— D.H. Lawrence

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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
— Alice Walker

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"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

tags: life
423 people liked it

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
— Rita Mae Brown (Alma Mater)

tags: bad-judgement, experience, good-judgement, judgment, mistakes
88 people liked it

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
2,378 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
— Douglas Adams

268 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
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""When I go around and speak on campuses,
I still don't get young men standing up and saying,
'How can I combine career and family?'""
— Gertrude Stein

5 people liked it

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart."
— Erma Bombeck

tags: carpe-diem, food, titanic
331 people liked it

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. "
— Thomas Jefferson

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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: courage
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"Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy, colorful and lively."
— Mel Brooks

17 people liked it

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life
875 people liked it

"Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here."
— Melvin Udall

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"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)

tags: freedom, women, writing
434 people liked it

"Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon"
— H. Jackson Brown Jr. (Life's Little Instruction Book)

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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,301 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,835 people liked it

"When you learn, teach, when you get, give."
— Maya Angelou

107 people liked it

"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me."
— Erica Jong

16 people liked it

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama

tags: change, inspirational
463 people liked it

""Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving."

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— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

8 people liked it

"Once you learn to read, you will forever be free."
— Frederick Douglass

tags: literacy
44 people liked it

"Life is mostly froth and bubble, but two things stand like stone, kindness in anothers trouble and courage in your own"
— Princess Diana

14 people liked it

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
— Benjamin Franklin

134 people liked it

"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
— Mark Twain

tags: morals
741 people liked it

"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
— W. Somerset Maugham

tags: books, maugham, meaning, somerset
23 people liked it

"This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: kindness, religion
25 people liked it

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. "
— Mother Teresa

tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
143 people liked it

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: poetry
69 people liked it

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
— Bill Watterson (The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book)

tags: humor, idiots, life
671 people liked it

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, extraterrestrials
386 people liked it

"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, luck
159 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,557 people liked it

"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."
— George Carlin

tags: religion
111 people liked it

"True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life"
— James Baldwin

24 people liked it

"Brilliance is like four-wheel drive: It enables a person to get stuck in even more remote places."
— Garrison Keillor

12 people liked it

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor
910 people liked it

"Josh: "What is this thing?"
Gasper: "It's a Yeti. An abominable snowman."
Biff: "This is what happens when you fuck a sheep?"
Josh: "Not an abomination, abominable.""
— Christopher Moore (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal)

23 people liked it

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
— William Butler Yeats

87 people liked it

"God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp."
— Anthony Capella

1 person liked it

"Great art is horseshit, buy tacos."
— Charles Bukowski

39 people liked it

"I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100."
— Woody Allen

tags: humor
25 people liked it

"Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it."
— Josh Bazell (Beat the Reaper: A Novel)

6 people liked it

"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.'"
— Toni Morrison

tags: empower, freedom, job, students
17 people liked it

"... you're nuts but you're welcome here."
— Steve Martin

60 people liked it

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death
159 people liked it

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