Kelly's favorite quotes

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya

5,099 people liked it

"Your silence will not protect you."
— Audre Lorde

18 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.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

7,053 people liked it

"If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life."
— Roger Caras

tags: animals, dogs

36 people liked it

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational

546 people liked it

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: compassion, humanity, love

52 people liked it

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

tags: inspirational

1,042 people liked it

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inspiration

198 people liked it

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace."
— Milan Kundera

tags: dogs, peace

99 people liked it

"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."
— James Thurber

tags: animals, dogs

8 people liked it

"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too."
— Samuel Butler

tags: dogs

10 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,562 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science

1,612 people liked it

"No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously."
— Dave Barry

55 people liked it

"normal person's weekly chore list:
1. clean kitchen.
2. clean bathroom.
3. clean entire rest of domicile.
cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list:
1. don't get peanut butter on sheets."
— Dave Barry

tags: chores, cleaning, humor, slobs

5 people liked it

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
— Alice Walker

156 people liked it

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

57 people liked it

"Activism is my rent for living on the planet."
— Alice Walker

24 people liked it

"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."
— Audre Lorde

18 people liked it

"I bought some dehydrated paper but I didn't know what to add."
— Steven Wright

tags: humor, paper, water

3 people liked it

"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section? " She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."
— George Carlin

tags: books, bookstores, self-help

147 people liked it

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
— George Carlin

121 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom

10,563 people liked it

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

471 people liked it

"Until we are all free, we are none of us free. "
— Emma Lazarus

tags: freedom, liberty

4 people liked it

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-

315 people liked it

"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

1,384 people liked it

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

3,212 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul

11,292 people liked it

"It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again."
— Orson Scott Card (The Folk of the Fringe)

tags: women

139 people liked it

"This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question."
- Andrew Wiggin"
— Orson Scott Card (Speaker for the Dead)

105 people liked it

"Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes."
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)

41 people liked it

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