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"There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally."
— Michel de Montaigne

tags: living-well, the-good-life
1 person liked it

"The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything."
— Chögyam Trungpa (Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior)

tags: warriorship
1 person liked it

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
— Mae West

tags: fools, humor
36 people liked it

"The wise learn many things from their enemies."
— Aristophones

tags: wisdom
5 people liked it

"In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children."
— Herodotus

tags: children, parents, peace, war
3 people liked it

"One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: phenomena
1 person liked it

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: fame, notoriety-gossip
7 people liked it

"You can observe a lot just by watching."
— Yogi Berra

tags: managment, science
56 people liked it

"If you can't say anything good about someone else, sit right here by me."
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

tags: gossip
2 people liked it

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
— Mark Twain

tags: cats, lesson
156 people liked it

"It's better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
— Voltaire

tags: guilt, innocence, justice, mercy
2 people liked it

"The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite."
— Laozi

tags: war
3 people liked it

"We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: economics, greed
12 people liked it

"Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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— Chogyam Trunkpa Rinpoche

tags: buddhism
3 people liked it

"Attachment to one's own belief,
Aversion for another's view: all this is thought."
— Chandrakiriti

tags: buddhism, thought
2 people liked it

"Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“
so your life will stay fresh."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: life
2 people liked it

"There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
— Will Rogers

tags: experience, learning
4 people liked it

"Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: church-and-state, civil-rights, government, religion
18 people liked it

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
520 people liked it

"This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he
first appears he is a protector."
— Plato

tags: tyrant, tyrany
1 person liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
1,916 people liked it

"Fear always springs
from ignorance."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: fear, ignorance
8 people liked it

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be
trusted to act humanely or to think sanely
under the influence of a great fear."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: fear
3 people liked it

"...my dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: happiness
1 person liked it

"Time keeps evwything fwom happening at once."
— Elmer Fudd

tags: time
3 people liked it

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
— John Kenneth Galbraith

7 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
15,721 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
17,802 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,292 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,772 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,909 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,329 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
9,081 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,136 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,891 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
6,539 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,635 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
10,361 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
7,380 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,016 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
5,986 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
6,816 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,712 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
6,107 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,745 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
5,807 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,583 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,054 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity
6,414 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,538 people liked it

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