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"How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?"
— Julius Lester (The Autobiography of God: A Novel)

tags: hurt, love
7 people liked it

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
— Booker T. Washington

10 people liked it

"Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: humor
75 people liked it

"Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
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— Wayne W. Dyer

6 people liked it

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

tags: knowledge, wisdom
929 people liked it

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared"
— Tupac Shakur

25 people liked it

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender."
— Tupac Shakur

tags: inspirational
66 people liked it

"I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear. "
— Tupac Shakur

30 people liked it

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. "
— George Washington

44 people liked it

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anti-christian, christ, christianity, christians, jesus
918 people liked it

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect
1,396 people liked it

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
2,847 people liked it

"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us."
— Marianne Williamson

tags: fear, inspirational, life, love
80 people liked it

"It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart."
— Julius Lester (Day of Tears)

6 people liked it

"Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple."
— Julius Lester (The Autobiography of God: A Novel)

tags: silence
5 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,153 people liked it

"Life it too short to deal with crazy people."
— Karen E. Quinones Miller

tags: humor, patience, sanity
4 people liked it

"Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."
— Aristotle

tags: patience
27 people liked it

"A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen

tags: patience
25 people liked it

"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
— Molière

tags: inspirational, patience
2 people liked it

"A jug fills drop by drop."
— The Buddha

tags: patience
2 people liked it

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
226 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,356 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
989 people liked it

"Don't Worry Be Happy"
— Meher Baba

tags: art, devotional, life, nonmind-yoga, perfect-masters, poetry, sufi, truth-process
35 people liked it

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom
368 people liked it

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
— Michael Levine

tags: wisdom
246 people liked it

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: age, humor, old, wisdom
260 people liked it

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance, wisdom
215 people liked it

"Angry people are not always wise."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
329 people liked it

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
614 people liked it

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: wisdom
244 people liked it

"Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know."
— J. Winter Smith

tags: life, wisdom
62 people liked it

"Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect."
— Euripides

tags: wisdom
26 people liked it

"Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear."
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom
23 people liked it

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?""
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom
25 people liked it

"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."
— Paulo Coelho

76 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
17,734 people liked it

"hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!"
— Eric Jerome Dickey (Liar's Game)

tags: hate
7 people liked it

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

tags: dreams
3,466 people liked it

"Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it doesn’t make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me."
— Zora Neale Hurston

74 people liked it

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
— Zora Neale Hurston

166 people liked it

"I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living."
— Zora Neale Hurston

tags: life
45 people liked it

"Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves."
— Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

19 people liked it

"Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt."
— Zora Neale Hurston

8 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,534 people liked it

"Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can."
— Gloria Mallette

tags: african, american, books, family, fiction, marriage, psychological, suspense
43 people liked it

"It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about."
— L.P. Hartley

7 people liked it

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

1,103 people liked it

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
444 people liked it

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