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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
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"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,393 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
3,609 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
2,628 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,817 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
1,570 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,297 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,374 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
5,607 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity
6,450 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
2,925 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,581 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,372 people liked it

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
1,999 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,184 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,374 people liked it

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
1,954 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,452 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,027 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
2,086 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
2,924 people liked it

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
2,086 people liked it

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom
772 people liked it

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: truth
891 people liked it

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
— Rudyard Kipling

tags: words
530 people liked it

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

775 people liked it

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
804 people liked it

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
— Helen Keller

tags: friendship
1,084 people liked it

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

tags: age
789 people liked it

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
485 people liked it

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
— Jimi Hendrix

470 people liked it

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

534 people liked it

"Love is a better master than duty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: love
336 people liked it

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
— Albert Einstein

tags: love
442 people liked it

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
— Scott Westerfeld

tags: love
332 people liked it

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
(Translation: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)

tags: heart, love, quip, reason
249 people liked it

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
— Mother Teresa

tags: charity, giving, love
158 people liked it

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address)

tags: fear
380 people liked it

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

tags: life
549 people liked it

"Live to the point of tears."
— Albert Camus

tags: life, living
467 people liked it

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: love
436 people liked it

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational
490 people liked it

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: anger, freedom, truth
713 people liked it

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
— Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

tags: humor, science
422 people liked it

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
522 people liked it

"You have not failed until you quit trying."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

365 people liked it

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."
— Fats Domino

tags: funny
575 people liked it

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