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"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
17,865 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
15,781 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,669 people liked it

"…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers! "
— Gilbert Sorrentino, Mulligan Stew

tags: humour
2 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
10,412 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,780 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
1,883 people liked it

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: hollywood, kiss, soul
188 people liked it

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: animals, dogs
213 people liked it

"Diamonds are a girls best friend."
— Marilyn Monroe

125 people liked it

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
— Mae West

tags: evil, temptation
473 people liked it

"I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it."
— Mae West

tags: humor
406 people liked it

"Sex is an emotion in motion."
— Mae West

tags: sex
124 people liked it

"To err is human - but it feels divine."
— Mae West

tags: sin
63 people liked it

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: happiness
1,617 people liked it

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: dumbledore
1,000 people liked it

"Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: wit
580 people liked it

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: mischief
907 people liked it

"Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools."
-The Profesor"
— C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

55 people liked it

"To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, I give you King Peter the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens."
— C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

tags: narnia
37 people liked it

"This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all.
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe"
— C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

30 people liked it

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

tags: is---, life
2,251 people liked it

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

tags: anais, nin, qoutes, writing
582 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
208 people liked it

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life
203 people liked it

"Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!'"
— Anaïs Nin

tags: infidelity, marriage, sex
82 people liked it

"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: anais, art, nin
146 people liked it

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: writing
330 people liked it

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
208 people liked it

"For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: writing
81 people liked it

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: confidence
105 people liked it

"I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: age
46 people liked it

"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: sadness
63 people liked it

"She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day."
— Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)

40 people liked it

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."
— Virginia Woolf

33 people liked it

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art"
— Virginia Woolf (The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 4)

36 people liked it

"i can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. it expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: beauty, emotion, history, memory
53 people liked it

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps,
but still attached to life at all four corners."
— Virginia Woolf

27 people liked it

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: love, poetry, women
43 people liked it

"I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. "
— Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)

tags: books, sentences
10 people liked it

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
— Virginia Woolf

13 people liked it

"Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit."
— Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)

5 people liked it

""I prefer men to cauliflowers""
— Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)

5 people liked it

"When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred."
— Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)

tags: body, death, grave, heart
7 people liked it

"And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back."
— Marya Hornbacher (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia)

16 people liked it

"I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched."
— Francesca Lia Block

14 people liked it

"You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together"
— Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat)

tags: blood, love, romance
198 people liked it

"Do six impossible things before breakfast."
— The Red Queen or was it The White Queen?, Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

1 person liked it

"Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same."
— Francesca Lia Block

37 people liked it

"“What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?"
— Francesca Lia Block

26 people liked it

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