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"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
— John Lennon

tags: 1960s, beatles, love, peace, sixties
241 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
15,812 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
17,909 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,356 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
14,492 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,690 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,773 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,206 people liked it

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

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,028 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,214 people liked it

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
1,393 people liked it

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
1,169 people liked it

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: life, love
1,092 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,204 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,802 people liked it

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: adventure, love
1,635 people liked it

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: friendship, love
1,760 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
1,000 people liked it

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
337 people liked it

"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can."
— Danny Kaye

tags: adventure, art, life
43 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,524 people liked it

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

tags: music, philosophy, progress
482 people liked it

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women
241 people liked it

"Resist much. Obey little."
— Walt Whitman

tags: poetry
399 people liked it

"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
— John Russell

tags: wisdom
57 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
2,629 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,651 people liked it

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: happiness, life
372 people liked it

"It is not the length of life, but the depth."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
145 people liked it

"Art is the proper task of life. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, inspirational, life
88 people liked it

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life
246 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
331 people liked it

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
— Guillaume Apollinaire

tags: happiness, life
151 people liked it

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
— George Gordon Byron

tags: life
62 people liked it

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: life, reality
83 people liked it

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: life, real
64 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

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth
409 people liked it

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

470 people liked it

"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."
— William Butler Yeats

3 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
3,008 people liked it

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

tags: force, peace
186 people liked it

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: compassion, ethics, peace, vegetarianism
81 people liked it

"If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable"
— Barack Obama

51 people liked it

"World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: peace
38 people liked it

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,509 people liked it

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, morality, reading
944 people liked it

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor
869 people liked it

"April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain."
— T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land)

tags: april, cruelty, poetry, seasons, weather
46 people liked it

"Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party!"
— Robin P. Williams

19 people liked it

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