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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,278 people liked it

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

tags: activism
704 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,152 people liked it

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

tags: life, philosophy
3,813 people liked it

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: life, love
1,139 people liked it

"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time -- the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes -- when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever -- there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

61 people liked it

"Keep passing the open windows."
— John Irving

tags: it, learn, live, love
40 people liked it

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
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"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life, pain
661 people liked it

"True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. "
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: cough, drops, love
128 people liked it

"I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

tags: patience, writing
27 people liked it

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
— Anne Lamott

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"I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."
— Anne Lamott

68 people liked it

"No" is a complete sentence."
— Anne Lamott

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"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,184 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
715 people liked it

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke

tags: evil
638 people liked it

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."
— Suzanne Weyn (Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium)

tags: inspiration, life
155 people liked it

" If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
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— Lenny Bruce

tags: anti-catholic, anti-christian, catholicism, chairs, christ, christianity, crucifixion, death, electric, execution, jesus, penalty, rosaries
24 people liked it

"To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd, atheism, humor
385 people liked it

"We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."
— Philip Pullman

tags: books, companionship, inspirational, religious
385 people liked it

"I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are."
— Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)

tags: malone, mary, morality
75 people liked it

"People are too complicated to have simple labels."
— Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)

44 people liked it

"I am a religious person, although I am not a believer."
— Philip Pullman

tags: religion
35 people liked it

"The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure."
— Milan Kundera

tags: ambiguity
25 people liked it

"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

6 people liked it

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

152 people liked it

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
481 people liked it

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, extraterrestrials
391 people liked it

"Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful."
— Bill Watterson

tags: humor
30 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,910 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,766 people liked it

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

tags: lotr, war
273 people liked it

"Gandalf: The journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. Grey rain curtan of this world rolls back and it all turns to silver glass. And then you see it."
"Pippen: What Gandalf? What?"
"Gandalf: White shores. And beyond, the far green country and a swift sunrise."
"Pippen: That isn't so bad."
"Gandalf: No. No, it isn't."

(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— Philippa Boyens

tags: death, fate, life, movie
152 people liked it

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
— E.B. White (Letters of E. B. White)

tags: nature
58 people liked it

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

tags: charlotte, friends, last-lines, web, white, writer, writing
40 people liked it

"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."
— E.B. White

13 people liked it

"'Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'
'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'"
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

tags: friendship
249 people liked it

"'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
787 people liked it

"There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met."
— Jim Henson (Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets)

tags: friends, friendship
89 people liked it

"There is no spoon!"
— Matrix

4 people liked it

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer
187 people liked it

"we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers"
— Carl Sagan

26 people liked it

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
— Carl Sagan

tags: science, skepticism
42 people liked it

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. "
— Carl Sagan

26 people liked it

"A cult is a religion with no political power."
— Tom Wolfe

tags: atheism, philosophy
66 people liked it

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." - "
— Gene Roddenberry

tags: atheism, atheist, god, humans, religion
52 people liked it

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
— Louis Pasteur

tags: atheism, creativity
19 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,373 people liked it

"One person of integrity can make a difference."
— Elie Wiesel

46 people liked it

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