Aras's favorite quotes

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

"You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: animals, dogs

83 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

9,664 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

6,257 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

18,723 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

8,288 people liked it

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

752 people liked it

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
— Malcolm X

tags: books, reading

345 people liked it

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
— Malcolm X (By Any Means Necessary)

tags: philosophy, politics

449 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity

6,774 people liked it

"You don't stop of laughing because you grow old;
You grow old because you stop laughing."
— Michael Pritchard

5 people liked it

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

1,096 people liked it

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: adversity, character, power

366 people liked it

""Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other peeople's belief superstition?"
— Jostein Gaarder

tags: gaarder, jostein, sophie-s, world

18 people liked it

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."
— Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World)

tags: curiosity

22 people liked it

"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

148 people liked it

"It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn."
— Paulo Coelho

122 people liked it

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

143 people liked it

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo Coelho

tags: love

585 people liked it

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
— Paulo Coelho

1,131 people liked it

"It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again."
— Mary Higgins Clark (The Second Time Around: A Novel)

10 people liked it

"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."
— John Steinbeck

177 people liked it

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
— Hermann Hesse

131 people liked it

"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom

80 people liked it

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
— John Steinbeck

tags: politics, war

133 people liked it

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: beer

202 people liked it

"وقتي به يك چيني گوش مي دهيم،تمايل داريم حرف زدن او را غرغره كردني ناواضح بناميم.كسي كه چيني بلد است در حرف زدن او،زبان را باز خواهد شناخت.اين سان است كه اغلب نمي توانم انسان بودن را در يك انسان باز شناسم."
— لودويگ ويتگنشتاين (فرهنگ و ارزش)

2 people liked it

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