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"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational
1,436 people liked it

"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: greatness
99 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,324 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,181 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
11,765 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,536 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,259 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,231 people liked it

"'Stories never really end, Meggie,' he had once told her, 'even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.'"
— Cornelia Funke

43 people liked it

"'Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you...'
'Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?' said Harry sarcastically."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: humor
78 people liked it

"Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: humor, rebellion, sarcasm
788 people liked it

"No, it was honest," said Harry. "One of the only honest things you've said to me. You don't care whether I live or die, but you do care that I help you convince everyone you're winning the war against Voldemort."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

25 people liked it

"Accio Brain!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

225 people liked it

"For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: humor
140 people liked it

"You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: malfoy
15 people liked it

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: dumbledore
989 people liked it

"I want you to call me every bad name you can think of, in every language you know. I want you to tell me that you're disgusted with me and that you're going to leave so I can beg and grovel on knees for you to stay."
— Stephenie Meyer

23 people liked it

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: humor, money
318 people liked it

"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
— Benjamin Franklin

6 people liked it

"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. "
— George Bernard Shaw

27 people liked it

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. "
— Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading
110 people liked it

"I've found heaven right smack in the middle of Hell."
— Stephenie Meyer

134 people liked it

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life
2,688 people liked it

"You were right," I moaned, letting my eyes close.
"I usually am- but about what in particular this time?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

16 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
15,713 people liked it

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

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
1,915 people liked it

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
950 people liked it

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
714 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
553 people liked it

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress
480 people liked it

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
— Malcolm X (By Any Means Necessary)

tags: philosophy, politics
426 people liked it

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion
372 people liked it

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato

tags: philosophy
307 people liked it

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. "
— William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics
213 people liked it

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
— Richard Dawkins

tags: atheism, philosophy
401 people liked it

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: philosophy, poetry
335 people liked it

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
— Laozi (Tao Teh Ching)

tags: philosophy, wayfinding
208 people liked it

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
— Keith Richards (Keith Richards: In His Own Words)

tags: drugs, music, philosophy, politics
206 people liked it

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
— Carl Sagan

tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science
149 people liked it

"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
— Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)

tags: philosophy
140 people liked it

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

tags: morality, philosophy
181 people liked it

"You know, solving other peoples' problems is easy. The only person I can't seem to figure out is myself"
— Thomas James Higgins

tags: humor, philosophy
153 people liked it

"You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face."
— Ian Fleming (You Only Live Twice)

tags: bond, death, james, philosophy, poetry
187 people liked it

"If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
— Woody Allen

tags: atheism, metaphysics, philosophy
113 people liked it

"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

"I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

"To shrug."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: philosophic, philosophy
125 people liked it

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
— Benjamin Spock

tags: philosophy
87 people liked it

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism
142 people liked it

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
— Aristotle

tags: greek, philosophy
71 people liked it

"Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto "
— Scott Adams

tags: humor, philosophy
80 people liked it

"Belief is the death of intelligence."
— Robert Anton Wilson

tags: atheism, belief, faith, intelligence, metaphysics, philosophy, religion
82 people liked it

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