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#1

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: death, life, will-herondale

93 people liked it

#2

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

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

65,755 people liked it

#3

“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

87,546 people liked it

#4

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling

94,148 people liked it

#5

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

tags: attributed, dreams, love, reality, sleep

62,830 people liked it

#6

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

tags: humor, life

54,905 people liked it

#7

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

tags: life

52,218 people liked it

#8

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

38,969 people liked it

#9

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: integrity

41,221 people liked it

#10

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

36,624 people liked it

#11

“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

35,691 people liked it

#12

“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
― Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity

29,891 people liked it

#13

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

31,947 people liked it

#14

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

28,583 people liked it

#15

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

28,658 people liked it

#16

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

26,101 people liked it

#17

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

tags: love

15,171 people liked it

#18

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: love-trust-wrong-do-wrong

19,150 people liked it

#19

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: greatness

10,363 people liked it

#20

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: food, love, music

4,738 people liked it

#21

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: friendship

11,130 people liked it

#22

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: destiny

4,184 people liked it

#23

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: love

4,321 people liked it

#24

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”
― William Shakespeare

4,228 people liked it

#25

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition

2,761 people liked it

#26

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: hamlet, identity, possibilities

2,636 people liked it

#27

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

2,178 people liked it

#28

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: love

2,234 people liked it

#29

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

tags: comedy, elizabethan, robin-goodfellow

1,338 people liked it

#30

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

5,159 people liked it

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