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"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing
461 people liked it

"But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose."
— Anne Brontë

15 people liked it

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman
"
— Anaïs Nin

3 people liked it

"Mieux vaut un demon qu'on connait qu'un ange qu'on connait pas!"
— Voltaire

2 people liked it

"Resist much. Obey little."
— Walt Whitman

tags: poetry
426 people liked it

"It's too bad stupidity isn't painful."
— Anton Szandor LaVey

tags: stupidity
50 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
7,895 people liked it

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time."
— Barbara W. Tuchman

tags: inspirational-, true-----and
5 people liked it

"Undertow"

"I set out one night
When the tide was low
There were signs in the sky
But I did not know
I'd be caught in the grip
Of the undertow
Ditched on a beach
Where the sea hates to go
With a child in my arms
And a chill in my soul
And my heart the shape
Of a begging bowl"
— Leonard Cohen

5 people liked it

"We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars,
watching Cassiopeia mount her throne
and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South.
I would say, "I have a secret to tell you."
And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly,
you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.

"
— Diane Ackerman (Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems)

2 people liked it

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
— Albert Einstein

479 people liked it

"Try and fail, but don't fail to try!!"
— Kaggwa

1 person liked it

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you."
— William Arthur Ward

39 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,470 people liked it

"Once you label me you negate me."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: labeling, stereotyping
45 people liked it

"Humor is reason gone mad."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, reason
688 people liked it

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be, inspirational, yourself
1,858 people liked it

"Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate."
— Dante Alighieri

3 people liked it

"Gegner glauben uns zu wiederlegen, wenn sie ihre meinung wiederholen und auf die unsrige nicht achten."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 person liked it

"mijn ziel is in mij als een kind dat droomt, terwijl zijn voeten bloeden; Van vleugels verloren, die hij, de moede; Wel eenmaal wedervindt."
— Boddaert

1 person liked it

"The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit."
— Aesop

13 people liked it

"Quant'é bella giovinezza
Che si fugge tuttavia
Chi vuol esser lieto, sia;
Di doman non c'é certezza
"
— Lorenzo de' Medici

1 person liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, madness, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, quo, rebels, status, think, troublemakers
7,282 people liked it

"Quod ergo intellego, id etiam credo; at non omne quod credo, etiam intellego."
"What I can understand I can believe; but not everything I believe I can understand"
— Common Latin Phrase

2 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
11,309 people liked it

"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?'"
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: love, power
61 people liked it

"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. "
— Rita Mae Brown

23 people liked it

"We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

tags: lawyers
6 people liked it

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
— Diane Ackerman

23 people liked it

"[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind....."
— Anaïs Nin

9 people liked it

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
390 people liked it

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: psychiatry, sanity
64 people liked it

"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life"
— Pablo Neruda

113 people liked it

"Book lovers never go to bed alone."
— anon

12 people liked it

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. "
— Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading
113 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
1,120 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
11,637 people liked it

" .....Who are you then? "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. "
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Faust)

2 people liked it

"I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me.
When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery."
— Leonard Cohen

4 people liked it

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
364 people liked it

"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue."
— Dorothy Parker

135 people liked it

"I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!"
— Russell Brand

tags: attraction, brains-are-sexy, sex
47 people liked it

"It is madness
says reason
It is what it is
says love
It is unhappiness
says caution
It is nothing but pain
says fear
It has no future
says insight
It is what it is
says love
It is ridiculous
says pride
It is foolish
says caution
It is impossible
says experience
It is what it is
says love.
"
— Erich Fried (Es ist was es ist. Liebesgedichte Angstgedichte Zorngedichte)

9 people liked it

"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does."
— Michel Foucault (Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason)

tags: philosophy, wisdom
15 people liked it

"The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools."
— Larry Niven (Ringworld)

tags: commentary, fiction, science, social
22 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
8,090 people liked it

"When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: love
75 people liked it

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

125 people liked it

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
2,402 people liked it

"
Dich bedecken
nicht mit Küssen
nur einfach
mit Deiner Decke
(die Dir
von der Schulter
geglitten ist)
daß Du
im Schlaf nicht frierst.

Später
wenn Du
erwacht bist
das Fenster zumachen
und Dich umarmen
und Dich bedecken
mit Küssen
und Dich
entdecken.
"
— Erich Fried (Liebesgedichte)

1 person liked it

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