Elissa's quotes

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#1

"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
15,064 people liked it

#2

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
3,947 people liked it

#3

"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-yourself, inspirational
3,160 people liked it

#4

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

2,118 people liked it

#5

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

1,253 people liked it

#6

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: love, world
1,548 people liked it

#7

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
— Marilyn Monroe

1,196 people liked it

#8

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: marilyn-monroe
1,075 people liked it

#9

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: girl, makeup, world
942 people liked it

#10

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."
— Marilyn Monroe

1,063 people liked it

#11

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: love
922 people liked it

#12

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
— Marilyn Monroe

646 people liked it

#13

"Well behaved women rarely make history."
— Marilyn Monroe

784 people liked it

#14

"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know "
— Marilyn Monroe

633 people liked it

#15

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."
— Marilyn Monroe

504 people liked it

#16

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
— Marilyn Monroe

437 people liked it

#17

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: alone, feelings, not
359 people liked it

#18

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: ambition, dreams
257 people liked it

#19

"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
23,230 people liked it

#20

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
13,807 people liked it

#21

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
2,608 people liked it

#22

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: troubles
552 people liked it

#23

"In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!"
— Dr. Seuss

246 people liked it

#24

"Only you can control your future."
— Dr. Seuss

204 people liked it

#25

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
13,074 people liked it

#26

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

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed
12,270 people liked it

#27

"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
12,143 people liked it

#28

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
11,752 people liked it

#29

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
11,669 people liked it

#30

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

tags: humor, life
11,561 people liked it

#31

"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
10,247 people liked it

#32

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
9,842 people liked it

#33

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

tags: life
9,536 people liked it

#34

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
8,640 people liked it

#35

"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
8,972 people liked it

#36

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
8,819 people liked it

#37

"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
9,115 people liked it

#38

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
9,123 people liked it

#39

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
4,864 people liked it

#40

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
1,660 people liked it

#41

"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: fear, inspiration
1,696 people liked it

#42

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

1,324 people liked it

#43

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
923 people liked it

#44

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
577 people liked it

#45

"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

450 people liked it

#46

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams, future, inspirational
431 people liked it

#47

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: friends
333 people liked it