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

tags: truth
2,292 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,585 people liked it

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: humor, insanity
2,594 people liked it

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

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
3,858 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy
1,782 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
2,813 people liked it

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
2,393 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,735 people liked it

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
1,597 people liked it

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

tags: religion, science
1,632 people liked it

"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
18,824 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,880 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,271 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,565 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,205 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,363 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
8,052 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,757 people liked it

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run the walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational
547 people liked it

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ignorance
369 people liked it

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: education
328 people liked it

"Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

116 people liked it

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: war
99 people liked it

"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

82 people liked it

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hitler
68 people liked it

"the time is always right to do the right thing"
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational
73 people liked it

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: forgiveness
37 people liked it

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

20 people liked it

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: antoine, de, motivation, saint-exupéry, teaching
63 people liked it

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: inspiration, motivation
266 people liked it

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
— Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation
253 people liked it

"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
— Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation
129 people liked it

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
— Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation
90 people liked it

"The road to success is always under construction"
— Lily Tomlin

tags: motivation
22 people liked it

"When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."
— Karen E. Quinones Miller

tags: confidence, determination, inspiration, motivation, self-confidence
33 people liked it

"Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?"
— Jane Nelson

tags: discipline, motivation, parenting
9 people liked it

"Don’t let things that could have been, get in the way of things that still can be."
— Elder Maxwell

tags: inspirational, motivation
11 people liked it

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

tags: inspirational, motivation
6 people liked it

"You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do."
— Henry Ford

tags: action, motivation, reputation
7 people liked it

"Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic."
— Bill Watterson

tags: procrastination
311 people liked it

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
— Joss Whedon

tags: individuality
584 people liked it

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: conformity, individuality, self-love, self-respect
68 people liked it

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
— Harvey Fierstein

tags: identity, individuality, self-expression
42 people liked it

"I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: freedom, independence, individuality, liberty, patriotic, respect
25 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
15,234 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
3,191 people liked it

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
1,443 people liked it

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,142 people liked it

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

tags: happiness, love
359 people liked it

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
— Simon and Garfunkel

tags: happiness, life
223 people liked it

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