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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,193 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,280 people liked it

"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: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,291 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,340 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
7,193 people liked it

"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor
58 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,665 people liked it

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

3,291 people liked it

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

1,820 people liked it

"The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone."
— Ayn Rand (The Virtue of Selfishness)

46 people liked it

"Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable."
— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

tags: saints
41 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
915 people liked it

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

tags: art, haunted, house, nature
66 people liked it

"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility."
— Emily Dickinson

37 people liked it

"Beauty is not caused. It is."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: beauty
33 people liked it

"Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it."
— Emily Dickinson

24 people liked it

"Bring me the sunset in a cup."
— Emily Dickinson

20 people liked it

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

tags: life
608 people liked it

"Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it."
— David Sedaris

tags: humor, perception, retardation
407 people liked it

"Shit is the tofu of cursing."
— David Sedaris

tags: profanity, shit, swearing
60 people liked it

"If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve."
— David Sedaris

tags: journals-diaries, justice
50 people liked it

"It's just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking."
— David Sedaris (When You Are Engulfed in Flames)

32 people liked it

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance
562 people liked it

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
— Terry Pratchett

491 people liked it

"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing
420 people liked it

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: death, peace
366 people liked it

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits
350 people liked it

"Is there no way out of the mind?"
— Sylvia Plath

114 people liked it

"There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man would would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings."
— Sylvia Plath

33 people liked it

"How we need another soul to cling to."
— Sylvia Plath

49 people liked it

"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn."
— Sylvia Plath (The Journals of Sylvia Plath)

47 people liked it

"Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it."
— Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement)

30 people liked it

"In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. I am very tired, very banal, very confused. I do not know who I am tonight. I wanted to walk until I dropped and not complete the inevitable circle of coming home."
— Sylvia Plath (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)

8 people liked it

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

tags: books
466 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
647 people liked it

"Live to the point of tears."
— Albert Camus

tags: life, living
459 people liked it

"Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: death
104 people liked it

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life
181 people liked it

"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: sadness
62 people liked it

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

47 people liked it

"You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies."
— Dennis Lehane

14 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
17,717 people liked it

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

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,319 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,383 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,569 people liked it

"Simple is good."
— Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider)

tags: design
14 people liked it

"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
— Jim Henson

tags: inspirational
6 people liked it

"Play it fuckin' loud!"
— Bob Dylan

tags: fuck, music, profanity, rock
314 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
329 people liked it

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: goals
159 people liked it

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