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"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom
366 people liked it

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: anger, freedom, truth
707 people liked it

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

832 people liked it

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
— Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

tags: inspirational
235 people liked it

"What is hell? I still maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

211 people liked it

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: laughter
411 people liked it

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
— Anaïs Nin

252 people liked it

"Mediocricy will never do. You are capable of something better."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

195 people liked it

"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: life
220 people liked it

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
— Mary Oliver (New and Selected Poems)

tags: poetry
230 people liked it

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

178 people liked it

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
253 people liked it

"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

378 people liked it

"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter."
— Nicholas Sparks

tags: friends, judgement
421 people liked it

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music
334 people liked it

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

208 people liked it

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
— Louisa May Alcott

167 people liked it

"We are the change we have been waiting for."
— Barack Obama

tags: carpe-diem, change
176 people liked it

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: inspirational, ship, storms
220 people liked it

"Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today."
— James Dean

161 people liked it

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

513 people liked it

"Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself."
— Sarah Dessen

452 people liked it

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

240 people liked it

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

tags: boys, hate, love
337 people liked it

"Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right."
— Woody Allen

tags: sex
178 people liked it

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

424 people liked it

"You are, and always have been, my dream."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: love
354 people liked it

"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

206 people liked it

"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: perception, silence
107 people liked it

"The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together..."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

59 people liked it

"'I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Rescue)

tags: love
75 people liked it

"I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. "
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

200 people liked it

"And when her lips meet mine, I feel a strange tingling I have never felt before…and suddenly a miracle…and I discover a forgotten paradise, unchanged all this time, ageless like the stars. I feel the warmth of her body, and…I allow myself to slip away. I close my eyes and become a mighty ship in churning waters, strong and fearless, and she is my sails."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: kiss, love
66 people liked it

"In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life"
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: grief
88 people liked it

"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: friendship, love
247 people liked it

"The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over."
— Nicholas Sparks (Nights in Rodanthe)

tags: love
113 people liked it

"You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: love
129 people liked it

"I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be."
— Nicholas Sparks

tags: love
45 people liked it

"You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Guardian)

38 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
9,149 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
1,330 people liked it

"There are some people, you know, who are too important to ever be forgotten."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

tags: friendship, inspirational
360 people liked it

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

tags: friendship
650 people liked it

"".. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..""
— Steve Lopez (The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music)

tags: friendship
24 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,608 people liked it

"Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back, maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be…."
— carrie bradshaw, sx n the city

tags: life
11 people liked it

"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: fear, inspiration
1,058 people liked it

"What's meant to be will always find a way"
— Trisha Yearwood

tags: fate, inspiration, love
483 people liked it

"May the sun
bring you new energy by day
May the moon
softly restore you by night
May the rain
wash away your worries
May the breeze
blow new strength into your being
May you walk
gently through the world and know
its beauty all the days of your life."
— Apache Blessing

tags: caring, happiness, inspiration
162 people liked it

"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses."
— Edith Södergran

tags: creativity, inspiration, philosophy, vitality
26 people liked it

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