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"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
17,832 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
14,423 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
10,152 people liked it

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,870 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,241 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

2,031 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,854 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
659 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,622 people liked it

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

1,037 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

435 people liked it

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
— Abraham Lincoln

140 people liked it

"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

883 people liked it

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

tags: death, heart, love
355 people liked it

"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

272 people liked it

"When you love someone you let them take care of you."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: love
141 people liked it

"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it. "
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

124 people liked it

"It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

135 people liked it

""Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?" "
— Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)

122 people liked it

"Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

113 people liked it

"The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies"
— Jodi Picoult (Keeping Faith)

82 people liked it

"When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there."
— Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)

74 people liked it

"Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: silence
46 people liked it

"It's choice that makes us human."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

43 people liked it

"Love is not a because, it's a no matter what."
— Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)

65 people liked it

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

186 people liked it

"Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong. "
— Jodi Picoult

73 people liked it

"'Your can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.'"
— Jodi Picoult (Keeping Faith)

25 people liked it

"I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?"
— Jodi Picoult

62 people liked it

"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up"
— Jodi Picoult

86 people liked it

""I know you love me. The question is, how much?"
"
— Jodi Picoult

tags: mercy
41 people liked it

"You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

65 people liked it

"Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed"
— Jodi Picoult

tags: true-love
85 people liked it

"Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead. "
— Jodi Picoult

34 people liked it

"You can't edit a blank page"
— Jodi Picoult

tags: from-npr
38 people liked it

"I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

19 people liked it

"In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future."
— Jodi Picoult (Change of Heart)

tags: choice
70 people liked it

"It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

30 people liked it

"It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning. "
— Jodi Picoult

tags: fiction
30 people liked it

"Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home"
— Jodi Picoult (Mercy)

36 people liked it

"If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?"
— Jodi Picoult

19 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,738 people liked it

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
1,777 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,643 people liked it

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon

tags: activism, beatles, materialism, peace, society, television
474 people liked it

"All you need is love."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, love
599 people liked it

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, inspirational, live, love, music
721 people liked it

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams
349 people liked it

"Living is Easy with Your Eyes Closed."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, blindness, ignorance, life
215 people liked it

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, imagination, reality
168 people liked it

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