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"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
17,870 people liked it

"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
15,782 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,236 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
9,105 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,556 people liked it

"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."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,562 people liked it

"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
6,731 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,264 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,962 people liked it

"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

tags: angelou, maya
4,872 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,197 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
3,741 people liked it

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

tags: life, philosophy
3,576 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,557 people liked it

"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
3,730 people liked it

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
3,604 people liked it

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

tags: dreams
3,513 people liked it

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library
3,112 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,330 people liked it

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational
3,114 people liked it

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

tags: fear, inspirational
2,877 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,627 people liked it

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour
1,985 people liked it

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

tags: failure, inspirational, success
2,279 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
2,179 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy
1,701 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,715 people liked it

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
1,791 people liked it

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
1,521 people liked it

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
1,391 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,649 people liked it

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

1,817 people liked it

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
1,167 people liked it

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."
— Albert Einstein

287 people liked it

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
251 people liked it

"if a cluttered desk is that of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?"
— Albert Einstein

236 people liked it

"You never fail until you stop trying."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational
198 people liked it

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
— Albert Einstein

tags: future
123 people liked it

"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: human, temperament, vegetarianism
90 people liked it

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
— Albert Einstein

tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
116 people liked it

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
— Albert Einstein

tags: cybernetics, science
95 people liked it

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein

147 people liked it

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
— Albert Einstein

100 people liked it

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
— Albert Einstein

91 people liked it

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. "
— Albert Einstein

49 people liked it

"The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas."
— Albert Einstein

31 people liked it

"Genuis is 1% talent and 99% percent hardwork..."
— Albert Einstein

29 people liked it

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

tags: age
788 people liked it

"Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: car, funny, humor, religious
1,139 people liked it

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor
1,030 people liked it

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