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""A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. "
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— Willy Wonka

13 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,988 people liked it

"Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up."
— Neal Shusterman (Unwind)

60 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
12,007 people liked it

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
— John F. Kennedy

25 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
7,240 people liked it

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

578 people liked it

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: peace
73 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
1,468 people liked it

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
645 people liked it

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
430 people liked it

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

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,155 people liked it

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
— Pablo Picasso

38 people liked it

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
— Mark Twain

109 people liked it

"What luck for rulers that men do not think."
— Adolf Hitler

tags: hmmm
64 people liked it

"The wisest men follow their own direction."
— Euripides

tags: wise
8 people liked it

"The only truth is music"
— Jack Kerouac

113 people liked it

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. "
— Joseph Chilton Pearce

11 people liked it

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: music
613 people liked it

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life
206 people liked it

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1)

tags: dreams
195 people liked it

"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
— Hazrat Inayat Khan

2 people liked it

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. "
— John Updike

tags: -_-, dreams, keep, up, ur
17 people liked it

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought. "
— William Shakespeare

36 people liked it

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

tags: dance, dancing, music
1,029 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
9,900 people liked it

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

tags: dreams, music
833 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,292 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
6,072 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,938 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
6,042 people liked it

"Try a little harder to be a little better."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: inspirational
995 people liked it

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
204 people liked it

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

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

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

tags: inspirational
611 people liked it

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
— Laozi

tags: inspirational
149 people liked it

"why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out"
— Oliver James

tags: individuality, inspirational, life
173 people liked it

"If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
('Stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
And you drop one on the floor
Maybe they won't let you
Dry the dishes anymore
"
— Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic)

tags: inspirational
80 people liked it

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
— William Shakespeare

tags: inspirational
133 people liked it

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama

tags: change, inspirational
468 people liked it

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."
— Barack Obama

38 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,868 people liked it

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
— George Herman Ruth

tags: hard, inspiration, teamwork, work
100 people liked it

"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
— Nick Hornby

tags: music
518 people liked it

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

tags: music, sad
483 people liked it

"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
— Bob Dylan

tags: chaos, dylan, music
200 people liked it

"For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!"
— John Lennon

tags: applause, beatles, concerts, jewelry, music, stage-patter
130 people liked it

"Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time."
— Tom Petty

tags: music
91 people liked it

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. "
— Robert Fripp

tags: music
110 people liked it

"Music is my higher power"
— Oliver James

tags: music, religion
137 people liked it

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