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#1

“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

93,715 people liked it

#2

“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

87,238 people liked it

#3

“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, those-who-matter

73,280 people liked it

#4

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

68,870 people liked it

#5

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

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

65,522 people liked it

#6

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

55,798 people liked it

#7

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

54,395 people liked it

#8

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

2,150 people liked it

#9

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

tags: abstraction, language

1,197 people liked it

#10

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

4,179 people liked it

#11

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

tags: harry-potter, jk-rowling, stephenie-meyer, twilight

2,807 people liked it

#12

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

1,471 people liked it

#13

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing

tags: books, magic, reading

5,995 people liked it

#14

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

6,722 people liked it

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