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#1

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

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#2

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

1,653 people liked it

#3

“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats”
― Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog

tags: cats

68 people liked it

#4

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

2,567 people liked it

#5

“The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I’d be OK. ”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

tags: attack, attacked, children, funny, humor, kids, midgets, pack, wrestle, wrestling

394 people liked it

#6

“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: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

87,668 people liked it

#7

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

69,192 people liked it

#8

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, honesty, inspirational, unsourced, unverifiable

65,859 people liked it

#9

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

54,974 people liked it

#10

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

tags: family, food, thanksgiving

1,773 people liked it

#11

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

tags: home, life

68 people liked it

#12

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
― William James

tags: actions, attributed, change

161 people liked it

#13

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

tags: realist

3,314 people liked it

#14

“Why couldn’t I have spent the last few months like this, wrapped in his arms, drinking in the warm, spicy scent of him? Oh, wait. Cooper was a complete dick to me, that’s why.”
― Molly Harper, How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf

tags: reunion

4 people liked it

#15

“Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.”
― Rachel Caine, Ill Wind

tags: normal

11 people liked it

#16

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up:that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child, and that if theses faculties are encouraged in youth they will act well and wisely in the adult, but if they are repressed and denied in the child they will stunt and cripple the adult personality.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

6 people liked it

#17

“Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

tags: life-lessons

197 people liked it

#18

“I was having one of those days where I wanted to start throwing things because only breaking crap would make me feel better. My limit for acceptable weirdness in my daily life had been maxed out.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

8 people liked it

#19

“20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, words-to-live-by

13 people liked it

#20

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

tags: abstraction, language

1,199 people liked it

#21

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy

40,591 people liked it

#22

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

2,604 people liked it

#23

“If you love a person in the real sense, you want them to be happy, not take them like butter and spread them thinly over your own bread, to make it more palatable for yourself.”
― Nella Last, Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49

tags: love

14 people liked it

#24

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

8,214 people liked it

#25

“Emilie Buchwald quotes

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
― Emilie Buchwald

3 people liked it

#26

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

19,194 people liked it

#27

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: cartoonist, humor, inspirational

2,744 people liked it

#28

“All roads lead to where you are, right now.”
― Robin Spielberg

2 people liked it

#29

“The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: alone, crowd-of-loneliness, single

4 people liked it

#30

“Sometimes the only justice you can give to people is to remember them.”
― Sophia Martin

2 people liked it

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