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"You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams."
— L.M. Montgomery (The Road to Yesterday)

tags: dreams
34 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,928 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,221 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,192 people liked it

"I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: dreams, stars
91 people liked it

"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: laughter, life
93 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,171 people liked it

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

tags: emotions, feelings
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"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
— Helen Keller

44 people liked it

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement "
— Helen Keller

28 people liked it

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
— Helen Keller (The Story of My Life)

19 people liked it

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
— Helen Keller

21 people liked it

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
— Scott Westerfeld

tags: love
331 people liked it

"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
2,865 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
7,904 people liked it

"Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can."
— Gloria Mallette

tags: african, american, books, family, fiction, marriage, psychological, suspense
44 people liked it

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

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,049 people liked it

"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
832 people liked it

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: happiness, life
367 people liked it

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

tags: happiness, success
188 people liked it

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."
— Mark Twain

tags: happiness
144 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,649 people liked it

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

tags: is---, life
2,245 people liked it

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
4,126 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
1,447 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
259 people liked it

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
— Mother Teresa

tags: carpe-diem, future, past, present, time
107 people liked it

"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? (Anne Shirley)"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
82 people liked it

"Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
135 people liked it

"It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it. "
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

42 people liked it

"Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself.
Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting."
— L.M. Montgomery

21 people liked it

"Life is a game, play it."
— Mother Teresa

28 people liked it

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
— L.M. Montgomery

tags: mistakes
162 people liked it

"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

tags: love
1,034 people liked it

"I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: reading
65 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
17,826 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,241 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,632 people liked it

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: humor
535 people liked it

"How did it get so late so soon?"
— Dr. Seuss

243 people liked it

"I said what I meant, and I meant what I said. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"
— Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)

tags: dr-, humor, inspirational, musical, seuss
413 people liked it

"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
— Dr. Seuss

197 people liked it

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy, humor
294 people liked it

"Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how."
— Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat)

69 people liked it

"The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love."
— Mother Teresa

19 people liked it

"Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls."
— Mother Teresa

17 people liked it

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

14 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

2,031 people liked it

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
— Charlotte Brontë

tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
162 people liked it

"Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are! (Jane to Mr. Rochester-Ch. 23)"
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

tags: chapter, xxiii
78 people liked it

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