donna's quotes

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"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."
— David Sedaris (Naked)

tags: changing, others
183 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,874 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,925 people liked it

"live for each second without hesitation "
— - elton john

1 person liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
4,041 people liked it

"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."
— Jim Henson

tags: humor
5,934 people liked it

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,161 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
467 people liked it

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."
— Barack Obama

38 people liked it

"If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable"
— Barack Obama

51 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
7,328 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. 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

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,399 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,465 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,329 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,148 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,842 people liked it

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
3,321 people liked it

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
3,041 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,819 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,838 people liked it

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
2,280 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy
1,800 people liked it

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be, inspirational, yourself
1,882 people liked it

"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live."
— Jonathan Safran Foer- extremely loud & incredibly close

24 people liked it

"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!"
— Bob Marley

tags: judge, life, live, perfection
610 people liked it

""The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively""
— Bob Marley

54 people liked it

"Peace begins with a smile.."
— Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
1,574 people liked it

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: animals, morality, vegetarianism
81 people liked it

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
1,895 people liked it

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
1,078 people liked it

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
— Paul Sweeney

1,074 people liked it

"The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)

60 people liked it

"I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)

tags: vegetarianism, vegetarians
5 people liked it

"While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)

5 people liked it

"Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)

tags: animals, eating, meat, responsibility, slaughter
2 people liked it

"Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)

2 people liked it

""We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals)

tags: vegan, vegetarian
3 people liked it

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
989 people liked it

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
852 people liked it

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: anger, freedom, truth
766 people liked it

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

tags: activism
709 people liked it

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature"
— Dave Barry

tags: humor
540 people liked it

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: love, world
688 people liked it

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon

tags: activism, beatles, materialism, peace, society, television
502 people liked it

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: convictions, criticism
508 people liked it

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."
— Bill Watterson

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

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, reality
472 people liked it

"Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice."
— James Patterson (Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports)

tags: humor
451 people liked it