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#1

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

1,583 people liked it

#2

“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

94,026 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

87,445 people liked it

#4

“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

73,382 people liked it

#5

“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

69,042 people liked it

#6

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

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

65,679 people liked it

#7

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

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

55,958 people liked it

#8

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

tags: life

52,145 people liked it

#9

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship

51,499 people liked it

#10

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

45,127 people liked it

#11

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love

43,363 people liked it

#12

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

40,662 people liked it

#13

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy

40,479 people liked it

#14

“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.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail

37,397 people liked it

#15

“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

38,914 people liked it

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