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"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: inspirational
522 people liked it

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: inspirational
60 people liked it

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
— Audrey Hepburn

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"If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: fairy-tales
111 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
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"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
— Anaïs Nin

71 people liked it

"I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live."
— Anaïs Nin

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"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
— Anaïs Nin

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"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work."
— Anaïs Nin (Henry and June)

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"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: anais-nin, inspirational, living, mermaids, no-fear, sea
56 people liked it

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: independence, women
207 people liked it

"Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves"
— Anaïs Nin (Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin)

48 people liked it

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: growth
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"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
— Anaïs Nin

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"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."
— Anaïs Nin (Henry and June)

tags: inspirational
64 people liked it

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. "
— Anaïs Nin

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"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ"
— Anaïs Nin

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"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
— Anaïs Nin

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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women
814 people liked it

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: anais, nin, qoutes, writing
575 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
6,779 people liked it

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

37 people liked it

"You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

125 people liked it

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: integrity
36 people liked it

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

154 people liked it

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: friends
208 people liked it

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

53 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,455 people liked it

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
447 people liked it

"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

254 people liked it

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

205 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
— Albert Einstein

177 people liked it

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. "
— Albert Einstein

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,270 people liked it

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

tags: love
331 people liked it

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
— Albert Einstein

tags: force, peace
183 people liked it

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein

766 people liked it

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

441 people liked it

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
— Albert Einstein

tags: mistakes
1,871 people liked it

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
1,181 people liked it

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

1,778 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
530 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,183 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
9,030 people liked it

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: adversity, character, power
345 people liked it

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
858 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
6,985 people liked it

"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
— Confucius

tags: advice, generosity, life, wise, work
23 people liked it

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