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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,133 people liked it

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,160 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,194 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
10,878 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
9,149 people liked it

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: idiotic-book, love, romance, romantic
5,487 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity
6,351 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,534 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,877 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,503 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,551 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

4,702 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,248 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,246 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
14,260 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
15,594 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,829 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,125 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,566 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
7,819 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
7,444 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
7,315 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,168 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,628 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,009 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,433 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,223 people liked it

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

tags: strength
5,155 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,761 people liked it

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
— Walt Disney Company (Mulan)

tags: inspiration, life
339 people liked it

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, lessons, life, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
183 people liked it

"You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality."
— Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts)

tags: humor
56 people liked it

"My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie"
— Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts)

32 people liked it

"All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.""
— Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts)

tags: learning, student, test
18 people liked it

"You. Yes You"
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

tags: flutie, marcus
14 people liked it

"We are perfect in our imperfection."
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

13 people liked it

"And so I’ll let you go, and let it be.

Whatever"
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

10 people liked it

"I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.
THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF
OFF.

-Marcus Flutie"
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

tags: education, wisdom
7 people liked it

"I love you.
And I want you, too.
But.
However.
Unfortunately ..."
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

tags: love
7 people liked it

"I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers"
— Megan McCafferty

4 people liked it

"The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. "
— Megan McCafferty

4 people liked it

""Whatis ur definition of skan?" I ask
"A skank fucks skeezas she barely knows.""
— Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts)

tags: humor, teen
4 people liked it

"It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him."
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

tags: love, romance
8 people liked it

"Gone for a while
Hoping, always, to return
If you will let me"
— Megan McCafferty (Perfect Fifths: A Novel)

tags: flutie, marcus
6 people liked it

"You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead."
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

tags: dead, life
4 people liked it

"I wish our love was right now."
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

4 people liked it

"What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?"
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

tags: jessica
3 people liked it

"I’m living with K-Fed’s retarded half brotha/sista."
— Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

tags: jessica, shea
2 people liked it

"I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up.
Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out."
— Megan McCafferty (Second Helpings)

tags: education, inspiration
4 people liked it

"There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by:
Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you."
— Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts)

tags: inspirational
2 people liked it

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