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"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. "
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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

tags: humor, life
8,752 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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"Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

tags: famous, most, novella
522 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,274 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
5,859 people liked it

"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny."
— Frank Zappa

tags: humor, jazz, music
236 people liked it

"When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal."
— Daniel Wallace (Big Fish)

tags: imortality, stories
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,113 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,353 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,569 people liked it

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

tags: beauty, life
963 people liked it

"Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."
— John Wayne

755 people liked it

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance
575 people liked it

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

671 people liked it

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
— Phyllis Diller

tags: anger, funny, sleep
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"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

909 people liked it

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"
— John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
343 people liked it

"For you, a thousand times over"
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

237 people liked it

"Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it."
— Rodney Dangerfield

tags: crime, funny, humour
255 people liked it

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
— George Washington

tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth
188 people liked it

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

tags: music
2,107 people liked it

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

tags: dance, dancing, music
948 people liked it

"None but ourselves can free our minds."
— Bob Marley

tags: bob, inspirational, marley, music, reggae
340 people liked it

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music
343 people liked it

"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."
— Bob Dylan

tags: music
124 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,886 people liked it

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading, wicked
774 people liked it

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women
241 people liked it

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

tags: women
475 people liked it

"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. "
— Mae West

tags: goodness, sexuality, virtue
251 people liked it

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! "
— Mae West

tags: decadence, indulgence, over-indulgence
143 people liked it

"Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men."
— Mae West

tags: life, men
147 people liked it

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure."
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
180 people liked it

"Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided."
— Mae West

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"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
621 people liked it

"Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."
— Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hop, insperration, knolage, wisdom
194 people liked it

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: wisdom
245 people liked it

"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."
— Simone de Beauvoir

11 people liked it

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: death, life
1,067 people liked it

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. "
— Jimi Hendrix

12 people liked it

"And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.."
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: ephemeral
5 people liked it

"Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

74 people liked it

"Because paper has more patience than people. "
— Anne Frank

tags: affirming, inspirational, uplifting
115 people liked it

"Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain."
— Billie Holiday

5 people liked it

""If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.""
— Billie Holiday

tags: actress, billie, holiday, singer, songs, writing
3 people liked it

"Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show."
— Nick Drake

tags: life
11 people liked it

"And see she flies, and she is everywhere."
— Nick Drake

4 people liked it

"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
1,106 people liked it

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
273 people liked it

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