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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,365 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,772 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,627 people liked it

"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way."
— Steve Martin (Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life)

tags: humor
180 people liked it

"I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden."
— Steve Martin

52 people liked it

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
— William Butler Yeats

88 people liked it

"I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams."
— William Butler Yeats

22 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
6,016 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
1,632 people liked it

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

1,987 people liked it

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
848 people liked it

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

740 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,429 people liked it

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
— Robert Frost

732 people liked it

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
— Robert Frost

382 people liked it

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener. "
— Robert Frost

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
160 people liked it

"The best way out is always through."
— Robert Frost

tags: feelings
174 people liked it

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
— Henry David Thoreau

153 people liked it

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: authority, conformity, fool, foolishness, rule, rules
64 people liked it

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
— Henry David Thoreau

54 people liked it

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, slave, slavery, slaves
35 people liked it

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: earth, heaven, heavenly
24 people liked it

"Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?"
— Mary Oliver

tags: life, poetry
106 people liked it

"Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?"
— Mary Oliver

9 people liked it

"The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own."
— Mary Oliver

9 people liked it

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
— e.e. cummings

65 people liked it

"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
— e.e. cummings

48 people liked it

"Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry."
— Mark Strand (Reasons for Moving)

tags: eating, poetry
19 people liked it

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
— John Caldwell Holt

9 people liked it

"There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

111 people liked it

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: business, love
79 people liked it

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
— Frank Zappa

tags: open-mind
108 people liked it

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
— Frank Zappa

tags: communism
37 people liked it

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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— Richard Buckminster Fuller

12 people liked it

"I seem to be a verb."
— Richard Buckminster Fuller

8 people liked it

"Geniuses are just people who had good mothers."
— Richard Buckminster Fuller

4 people liked it

"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. "
— R. Buckminster Fuller

4 people liked it

"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."
— Buckminster Fuller

3 people liked it

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