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#1

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance, wisdom
292 people liked it

#2

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden and Other Writings)

tags: simplicity
150 people liked it

#3

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
— Henry David Thoreau

262 people liked it

#4

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)

tags:
299 people liked it

#5

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
3,015 people liked it

#6

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought
146 people liked it

#7

"A man's heart plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps."
— Proverbs 16:9

tags: bible
27 people liked it

#8

"Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

tags: most-famous-novella
641 people liked it

#9

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, service
229 people liked it

#10

"Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today."
— James Dean

194 people liked it

#11

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

tags: art, books
232 people liked it

#12

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."
— Walt Disney Company

1,085 people liked it

#13

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
4,257 people liked it

#14

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
— Mother Teresa

tags: action, beautiful, gift, kindness, love, smile, smiling
289 people liked it

#15

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: inspirational, optimism
242 people liked it

#16

"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
1,295 people liked it

#17

"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)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
7,749 people liked it

#18

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
3,706 people liked it

#19

"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: maya-angelou
7,692 people liked it

#20

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: laughter
695 people liked it

#21

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything"
— Katharine Hepburn (Me : Stories of My Life)

tags: love
311 people liked it

#22

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."
— Katharine Hepburn (Me: Stories of My Life)

tags: change, life, self
136 people liked it

#23

"“Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.”"
— Bob Marley (Bob Marley - Legend)

tags: inspriational
49 people liked it

#24

"DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside."
— Bob Dylan (The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966)

tags: destiny
24 people liked it

#25

"I don't want to die without any scars."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: death, durden, scars, tyler
452 people liked it

#26

"I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?"
— Paul Newman

13 people liked it

#27

"You always have God's undivided attention."
— Charles F. Stanley

6 people liked it

#28

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under."
— Ronald Reagan

tags: inspirational
190 people liked it

#29

"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
— Ronald Reagan

57 people liked it

#30

"I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life."
— Ronald Reagan

tags: inspirational
51 people liked it

#31

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

135 people liked it

#32

"...libraries should be open to all--except the censor."
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

36 people liked it

#33

"Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

tags: love
29 people liked it

#34

"There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (Rappaccini's Daughter)

6 people liked it

#35

"'I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.' -Jane Eyre"
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: funny, humor, love, romance
78 people liked it

#36

"I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be truly disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man."
— Anne Brontë

tags: authors, female, writing
11 people liked it

#37

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

80 people liked it

#38

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
— Abraham Lincoln

207 people liked it

#39

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
— Abraham Lincoln

44 people liked it

#40

"Ideas come from everything"
— Alfred Hitchcock

tags: ideas, inspiration
52 people liked it

#41

"This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . .
Next stop The Twilight Zone.

"
— Rod Serling

15 people liked it

#42

"I don't know, I'm making this up as I go."
— Campbell Black (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark)

19 people liked it

#43

"There's no place like home..."
— L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

18 people liked it

#44

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters."
— Norman Maclean

25 people liked it

#45

"Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man. "
— East of Eden

tags: choice, man
6 people liked it

#46

"My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point."
— Conan O'Brien

24 people liked it

#47

"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books
1,668 people liked it

#48

"I never make stupid mistakes - only very, very clever ones."
— John Peel

3 people liked it

#49

""A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men."

"
— Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

8 people liked it

#50

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

tags: dreams, music
963 people liked it

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