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"If you don't know where you want to go, then it does not matter where you go... "
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

44 people liked it

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."

"I don't much care where –"

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

tags: adventure
217 people liked it

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

tags: beliefs, breakfast, humor, impossible
280 people liked it

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass)

366 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
16,600 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,663 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,378 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
5,715 people liked it

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

tags: humor, obvious
5,652 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
5,257 people liked it

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

tags: life
7,444 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
12,518 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,800 people liked it

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing
1,590 people liked it

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing
1,150 people liked it

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: books, morality, reading, writing
769 people liked it

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
3,026 people liked it

"If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is...and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them."
— Jack Handey

tags: absurd
124 people liked it

"I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes."
— Jack Handey

tags: absurd
204 people liked it

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
— Frank Leahy

5 people liked it

"here's the thing about friends, I mean REAL friends: You can't just put up a poster at school and advertise for somebody and then hope you find the perfect one. It might work, I guess, but you'd look so pathetic and desperate that no one would want to be your friend, and so it would be kind of pointless"
— Laura Preble (The Queen Geek Social Club)

tags: friends
4 people liked it

"I know you aren't speaking to me for some reason, but I care about you so much that I'll come here where I know I'll get spit on and abused, and I'll sit on that cold floor just to be near you!"
— Laura Preble

2 people liked it

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

775 people liked it

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count,
It's the life in your years."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational
468 people liked it

"This too shall pass..."
— Abraham Lincoln

350 people liked it

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: books
357 people liked it

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
— Abraham Lincoln

118 people liked it

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: people
26 people liked it

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

tags: women
3,187 people liked it

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."
— Jack Handey

tags: funny, humor, quotes, shoes, walk
223 people liked it

"On the other hand, you have different fingers"
— Jack Handey

84 people liked it

"If I was being executed by injection, I'd clean up my cell real neat.

Then, when they came to get me, I'd say, "Injection? I thought you said `inspection'."

They'd probably feel real bad, and maybe I could get out of it."
— Jack Handey

tags: absurd
88 people liked it

"There's a world that we know nothing about, that we can only imagine. And that is the world of books."
— Jack Handey

22 people liked it

"Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

tags: deep, handey, patriotic, patriotism, thoughts
17 people liked it

"In order to understand mankind, we must look at the word itself, "mank" and "ind".What do these words mean? Maybe we'll never know."
— Jack Handey

32 people liked it

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
581 people liked it

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

tags: essential, happiness, love
3,202 people liked it

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness
750 people liked it

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
862 people liked it

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: happiness, life
404 people liked it

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: happiness, love
361 people liked it

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
— Robert Frost

tags: happiness
240 people liked it

"Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: happiness
235 people liked it

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: happiness, inspirational, life
352 people liked it

"Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers:3-two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)"
— Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You)

tags: cream, humor, ice
73 people liked it

"'I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler."
— Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You)

tags: humor
39 people liked it

"Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.)"
— Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You)

tags: humor
16 people liked it

"I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad)."
— Ally Carter (I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You)

27 people liked it

"Don't get it right, get it written."
— Ally Carter

21 people liked it

"I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.

I go to a school for spies. "
— Ally Carter (Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy)

tags: spy
18 people liked it

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