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"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin."
— Robert Collier

tags: inspiration
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"speak politely to an enraged dragon"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons
42 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
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"You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow."
— Gary Gygax

tags: dm, dming, dnd, dungeons-and-dragons
11 people liked it

"If we stop living because we fear death, then we have already died."
— Raistlin Majere

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"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, friends, humor, vegetarianism
540 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
15,069 people liked it

"Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now...."
— Nora Roberts (The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex)

tags: romance
128 people liked it

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: friendship, love
1,830 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
979 people liked it

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
— Robert F. Kennedy

tags: influence, justice, kindness, oppression
35 people liked it

"It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
— John Steinbeck (Cannery Row)

57 people liked it

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
197 people liked it

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man
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"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
— Robert E. Lee

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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
18,630 people liked it

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

243 people liked it

"I don't want to die! I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor
160 people liked it

"If we survive this, I'm gonna kill you both. Slowly"
— Sarge, fromn Red vs Blue

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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
— Abraham Lincoln

239 people liked it

"Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters."
— Artemis Entreri (R.A. Salvatore)

tags: death, living
8 people liked it

"Engarde, man-wench! Prepare to cross blades!"
— Bender, from Futurama

1 person liked it

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. "
— George Bernard Shaw

85 people liked it

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: sex
140 people liked it

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
— George Bernard Shaw

36 people liked it

"I'm sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: humor
33 people liked it

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
— George Bernard Shaw

26 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
7,761 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,727 people liked it

"Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages."
— George Bernard Shaw

12 people liked it

"Oh well, I'm too shallow to stay bummed for long."
— Joel as MacBeth

2 people liked it

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