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"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
3,022 people liked it

"Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead."
— Kurt Vonnegut

111 people liked it

"There's the road to heaven, and there's the road to hell, and there? That's the road to Faerie."
— Ellen Kushner (Thomas the Rhymer)

5 people liked it

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
— Aristotle

tags: happiness
216 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
12,098 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,399 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)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,571 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
3,813 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,654 people liked it

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields

tags: humor, sinister
2,038 people liked it

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics
1,539 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,656 people liked it

"Here’s the thing… I’ve already gone crazy once. I know what my limits are."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: crazy, humor
1,245 people liked it

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing
617 people liked it

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: funny, humor, inconceivable, movies
1,724 people liked it

"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

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,291 people liked it

"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

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,706 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.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, madness, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, quo, rebels, status, think, troublemakers
7,047 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,333 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,166 people liked it

"What's meant to be will always find a way"
— Trisha Yearwood

tags: fate, inspiration, love
505 people liked it

"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
— Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation
122 people liked it

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
— Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation
238 people liked it

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
— Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
270 people liked it

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
— Walt Disney Company (Mulan)

tags: inspiration, life
378 people liked it

"Life itself is a battle but those that are battle ready can fight the battle.Remember that tough time never last but tough people last."
— Ade

tags: inspiration
34 people liked it

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."
— Tricia Cunningham

tags: diet, fitness, health, inspiration, motivation
17 people liked it

"Love is the absence of judgement"
— Dahli Llama

tags: inspiration
139 people liked it

"I won't be labeled as average."
— Rachel Joy Scott

tags: inspiration
93 people liked it

"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

tags: experience, inspiration, unschooling
11 people liked it

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspiration
144 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,024 people liked it

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: curiosity, women
1,617 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,072 people liked it

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: men, rescuing, women
359 people liked it

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings."
— Cheris Kramarae

tags: feminism, women
230 people liked it

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,212 people liked it

"Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version."
— Carolyn See

tags: herstory, women, writing
45 people liked it

"Women only nag when they feel unappreciated."
— Louis de Bernières (Corelli's Mandolin)

tags: women
103 people liked it

"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
427 people liked it

"She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it...
-Kabuto"
— Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto, Vol. 18)

tags: funny, manga, naruto, women
170 people liked it

"Dispute not with her: she is lunatic."
— William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of King Richard III)

tags: insanity, women
109 people liked it

"'I have been crying,' she replied, simply, 'and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.'"
— Horace Annesley Vachell (The Romance of Judge Ketchum)

tags: crying, men, women
82 people liked it

"You cant beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you dont even try to."
— William Faulkner

tags: sexism, women
37 people liked it

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing
1,120 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing
937 people liked it

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

tags: writing
488 people liked it

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing
422 people liked it

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

tags: fiction, life, writing
228 people liked it

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Truman Capote

tags: writing
95 people liked it

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