Leslie's quotes

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,242 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,861 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,169 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
9,042 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,604 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
6,516 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
10,292 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,341 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
6,994 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
5,965 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
6,719 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
6,786 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,027 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,073 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,487 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,432 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,173 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,383 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,246 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
5,604 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,896 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
4,885 people liked it

"The Guide says that there is an art to flying,” said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams

tags: flight, flying, hg2g, humor
1,182 people liked it

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
— W.C. Fields

tags: humor, success
914 people liked it

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor
1,020 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
764 people liked it

"What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about."
— G.K. Chesterton (The Ball and the Cross)

4 people liked it

"For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy."
— G.K. Chesterton

5 people liked it

"There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic."
— G.K. Chesterton

6 people liked it

"It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary."
— G.K. Chesterton

5 people liked it

"The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand."
— G.K. Chesterton

4 people liked it

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Otherwise it is more akin to a sewer, taking in all things equally."
— G.K. Chesterton

4 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,506 people liked it

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
171 people liked it

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: christianity
101 people liked it

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
78 people liked it

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
— G.K. Chesterton

76 people liked it

"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance
67 people liked it

"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."
— G.K. Chesterton

47 people liked it

"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable."
— G.K. Chesterton (Heretics: The Annotated)

27 people liked it

"Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind."
— G.K. Chesterton

28 people liked it

"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."
— G.K. Chesterton

26 people liked it

"If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales
14 people liked it

"The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister."
— G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy)

13 people liked it

"There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there."
— G.K. Chesterton (The Everlasting Man)

14 people liked it

"Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?"
— G.K. Chesterton (The Man Who Was Thursday, Large-Print Edition)

12 people liked it

"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
— G.K. Chesterton

11 people liked it

"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own."
— G.K. Chesterton

10 people liked it

"If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?"
— G.K. Chesterton

15 people liked it