Jenn's quotes

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"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
2,975 people liked it

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
2,308 people liked it

"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
7,197 people liked it

""Better to light a candle than to curse the dark" "
— chinese proverb

tags: candle, curse, darkness, light
3 people liked it

""All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.""
— Edmund Burke

2 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
17,733 people liked it

"Lady Astor to Winston Churchill—
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."

His reply—
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: alcohol, classic-insult, drunk
167 people liked it

"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.""
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: free, speech
36 people liked it

""If you are going through hell, keep going."
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— - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

3 people liked it

""Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." "
— Winston Churchill

1 person liked it

""You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.""
— Winston Churchill

1 person liked it

""Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is just as you are about to reconcile yourself to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out into public.""
— Winston Churchill

1 person liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,181 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,200 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,157 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
9,051 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,609 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
7,494 people liked it

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

tags: life
6,916 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
6,999 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
6,672 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,437 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,935 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,611 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,901 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
4,888 people liked it

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational, politics, presidential
789 people liked it

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: giving
113 people liked it

"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: best
116 people liked it

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: diplomat, politics
80 people liked it

"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."
— Winston S. Churchill

68 people liked it

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
— Winston S. Churchill

50 people liked it

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: inspirational, life, success
22 people liked it

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move thier tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe."
— Winston S. Churchill

22 people liked it

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception
35 people liked it

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: life, philosophy
32 people liked it

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

8 people liked it

"To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

4 people liked it

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."
— Susan Sontag

tags: photography, time
24 people liked it

"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."
— Marc Riboud

tags: beauty, life, photo, photograph, photography, photos, picture, pictures, savor
16 people liked it

"It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down...."
— Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)

tags: art, past, photography
14 people liked it

"Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer"
— Walter De Mulder

tags: photography, seeing
1 person liked it

"To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk."
— Edward Weston

tags: art, photography
1 person liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
2,982 people liked it

"Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: art, truth
80 people liked it

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: vulnerability
62 people liked it

"Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: death
50 people liked it

"Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: understanding
51 people liked it

"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god, imagination
45 people liked it