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"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
12,501 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
15,275 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,759 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,576 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
9,815 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,593 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
6,299 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,903 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,894 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,152 people liked it

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

tags: strength
5,524 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,137 people liked it

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational
541 people liked it

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
— Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life
353 people liked it

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
358 people liked it

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, poetry
362 people liked it

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
— Edgar Degas

tags: art
212 people liked it

"All art is quite useless. "
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: art
72 people liked it

"Creativity takes courage. "
— Henri Matisse

tags: art, creativity
136 people liked it

"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: art
133 people liked it

"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."
— Bob Ross

tags: art, inspirational
117 people liked it

"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
— Dylan Thomas

tags: art, poetry, writing
85 people liked it

"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
— Orson Welles

tags: art
30 people liked it

"Color is only beautiful when it means something."
— Robert Henri

tags: art
4 people liked it

"I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings."
— Jasper Johns

tags: art
6 people liked it

"Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic."
— Bill Watterson

tags: procrastination
311 people liked it

"There is no art without contemplation."
— Robert Henri

tags: art
5 people liked it

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
— John Lennon

tags: art, beatles, confidence, ego, music
87 people liked it

"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."
— Marcel Duchamp

tags: art, artists
6 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,965 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
11,302 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
2,349 people liked it

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: love
1,048 people liked it

"Love is a better master than duty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: love
350 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,778 people liked it

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
— John Lennon

tags: 1960s, beatles, love, peace, sixties
253 people liked it

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."
— George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman)

tags: food, love
112 people liked it

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: logic, love
440 people liked it

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
— Mother Teresa

tags: echoes, endless, kind-words, kindness, love, words
280 people liked it

"From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: heartache, loss, love
109 people liked it

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fear, life, love
618 people liked it

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, inspirational, live, love, music
763 people liked it

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom
138 people liked it

"The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last"
— Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan: Love And Theft)

tags: love
92 people liked it

"When the power of love over overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
"
— *Jimmy Hendrix

tags: love, peace
37 people liked it

"Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."
— Dylan Thomas

tags: death, love
65 people liked it

"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, love, sun, universe
71 people liked it

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"
— Bob Dylan (Lyrics:1962-2001)

146 people liked it

"Play it fuckin' loud!"
— Bob Dylan

tags: fuck, music, profanity, rock
330 people liked it

"May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung."
— Bob Dylan

49 people liked it

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