Meg's quotes

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"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
15,899 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
14,584 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,928 people liked it

"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
9,181 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,441 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
7,996 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,826 people liked it

"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
18,009 people 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, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,908 people liked it

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

tags: humor, obvious
5,359 people liked it

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

tags: strength
5,269 people liked it

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: philosophy, poetry
340 people liked it

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
— Keith Richards (Keith Richards: In His Own Words)

tags: drugs, music, philosophy, politics
207 people liked it

"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
— Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)

tags: philosophy
140 people liked it

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
— Aristotle

tags: greek, philosophy
71 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
942 people liked it

"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."
— H.L. Mencken (A Little Book in C Major)

tags: humor, philosophy, truth
38 people liked it

"...the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that."
— Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)

tags: philosophy
42 people liked it

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;"
— Khalil Gibran (The Prophet)

tags: philosophy
60 people liked it

"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
130 people liked it

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
— Albert Camus

tags: philosophy, truth
63 people liked it

"Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
68 people liked it

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
868 people liked it

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are the eternity and you are the mirror."
— Kahlil Gibrán (The Prophet)

tags: eternity
46 people liked it

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.""
— Jim Morrison

tags: bravery, fear, freedom
139 people liked it

"Where's your will to be weird? "
— Jim Morrison

tags: individuality, weirdness, wierd, will
70 people liked it

"the future is uncertain but the end is always near "
— Jim Morrison

tags: doom, future, time
21 people liked it

""I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.""
— John Cage

tags: ideas, inspirational
8 people liked it

"down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss
infinity pleased our parents
one inch looks good to us"
— e.e. cummings

tags: philosophy, poetry, religion
4 people liked it

"Voice above,
voice of thunder,
speak from
the distant clouds,
voice below,
voice of life,
speak from
your lush green garden."
— adapted from Navajo Song

tags: nature, religion
2 people liked it

"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational
213 people liked it

"The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously."
— Nietsche

1 person liked it

"Distrust in all whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

17 people liked it

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

212 people liked it

"Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.""
— k.d. lang, Summer Fling

tags: fun, summer
1 person liked it

"Summer afternoon... to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
— Henry James

tags: beauty, english, literature, summer
26 people liked it

"Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."
— Bob Dylan (Chronicles: Volume One)

tags: existence, friends, identity, old
20 people liked it

"Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."
— Nora Ephron

tags: flings, men, summer
4 people liked it

"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: death, life, philosophy, sun
7 people liked it

"It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: true-love
4 people liked it

""Give me your love or I kill you" say a pair of dark eyes'
"Give me your love or I die" say a pair of blue eyes."
— traditional Spanish copla

tags: blue-eyes, dark-eyes, love, passion
6 people liked it

"Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand."
— e.e. cummings

tags: poetry
18 people liked it

"Your eyes are full of sweetness
Your lips are full of fear
And while your lips breathe:
'Leave me!'
Your eyes cry out: 'Come here!'"
— traditional Spanish copla

tags: love, passion
13 people liked it

"I am like an apple,
You are like an apricot
I have a heart inside me,
Only a stone you've got!"
— traditional Spanish copla translated into English

tags: love
5 people liked it

"You have blue eyes,
Eyes the color of heaven,
And to heaven you shall give account
Of the evil you do with them."
— traditional Spanish copla translated to English

tags: blue-eyes, love
1 person liked it

"The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: mathematics, poetry
5 people liked it

"You lethargic, waiting upon me,
waiting for the fire and I
attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty

Shaken by your beauty
Shaken."
— William Carlos Williams (Paterson)

tags: love, poetry
11 people liked it

"Come clean with a child heart
Laugh as peaches in the summer wind
Let rain on a house roof be a song
Let the writing on your face
be a smell of apple orchards on late June."
— Carl Sandburg (Honey and Salt)

tags: happiness, life
16 people liked it

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."
— Socrates (Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library))

tags: philosophy
10 people liked it