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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,459 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,774 people liked it

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
— Rabindranath Tagore

17 people liked it

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
— Laozi

tags: self-reliance
32 people liked it

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
— Dalai Lama XIV (The Art of Happiness)

41 people liked it

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need."
— Mick Jagger

tags: desire, need
17 people liked it

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"
— Simone de Beauvoir

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"I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because I am a queen"
— india arie

5 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,679 people liked it

"In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."
— Paulo Coelho

69 people liked it

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
— Jose Addison

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"Once the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned, you will find you cannot eat your money."
— traditional saying, referenced by writer Joyce McLean in the Globe and Mail, 1989

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"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
— Kahlil Gibrán (The Prophet)

tags: love, marriage
156 people liked it

""Don't take anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering"
— Miguel Ruiz

3 people liked it

""You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.""
— Kahlil Gibran (Prophet)

8 people liked it

"I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal."
— Jeff Corwin

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"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

tags: choice, poetry
1,561 people liked it

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
— Augustine of Hippo

161 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,099 people liked it

"HAPPINESS [is] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED"
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

tags: family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage
80 people liked it

"The only sure path is to live consciously, moment to moment, as you let go of the outcome."
— Charlotte Kasl

6 people liked it

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
2,105 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
11,090 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,647 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,387 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,161 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,317 people liked it

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

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,042 people liked it

"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
6,201 people liked it

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

tags: strength
5,286 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,797 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,005 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
6,938 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, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,949 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
2,667 people liked it

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get"
— W.P. Kinsella

tags: happiness, success
191 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,314 people liked it

"In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks."
— John Muir

23 people liked it

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
— John Muir

tags: inspirational
37 people liked it

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
— John Muir

27 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
1,027 people liked it

"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
188 people liked it

"I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE."
— Madonna

tags: inspirational
44 people liked it

"I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.
-Madonna."
— Madonna

tags: confidence, laugh
66 people liked it

"None but ourselves can free our minds."
— Bob Marley

tags: bob, inspirational, marley, music, reggae
347 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

52 people liked it

"“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
30 people liked it

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

452 people liked it

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
— Confucius

tags: success
178 people liked it

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
1,815 people liked it

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