Lana's quotes

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#1

"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
20,073 people liked it

#2

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
14,611 people liked it

#3

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
8,666 people liked it

#4

"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. "
— Betty Friedan

tags: feminism, housekeeping, orgasm, sex, sexuality, women
181 people liked it

#5

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
— Coco Chanel

tags: beauty, class, fashion, girls, women
171 people liked it

#6

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. "
— Coco Chanel

tags: failure, success, time
45 people liked it

#7

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

37 people liked it

#8

"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
424 people liked it

#9

"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
— Mae West

tags: humor, sex
385 people liked it

#10

"Sick and perverted always appeals to me."
— Madonna

tags: sex
75 people liked it

#11

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
602 people liked it

#12

"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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— Gloria Steinem

30 people liked it

#13

""You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.""
— Candace Bushnell (Sex and the City)

61 people liked it

#14

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver."
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics)

tags: equality, feminism, women
32 people liked it

#15

"‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide."
— Rachel Cohn (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist)

116 people liked it

#16

"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: beauty, love, sex
27 people liked it

#17

"Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being."
— James Baldwin (No Name in the Street)

tags: sex
15 people liked it

#18

"Money, power, sex ... and elephants."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Memory)

8 people liked it

#19

"“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.” "
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai, happiness, harm, lama, reduction
48 people liked it

#20

"my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with youre beloved one."
— Carlos Barrios

tags: happiness, inspirational, love, sex
11 people liked it

#21

"When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea."
— Isaac Asimov (I, Asimov: A Memoir)

10 people liked it

#22

"All castles made of sand fall to the sea eventually"
— Jimmi Hendrix

3 people liked it

#23

"Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
Eddie DeChooch"
— Janet Evanovich (Seven Up)

tags: humor
454 people liked it

#24

"He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."
The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me."
He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse."
— Stephenie Meyer

14,507 people liked it

#25

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
— William F. Buckley Jr.

14 people liked it

#26

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women
1,208 people liked it

#27

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,837 people liked it

#28

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women
307 people liked it

#29

"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."
— Titanic

32 people liked it

#30

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
796 people liked it

#31

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
5,749 people liked it

#32

"Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life."
— Steven Wright

tags: humor, mondays
35 people liked it

#33

"Everyone hates Mondays, but if we didn't have Mondays everyone would hate Tuesdays"
— Cassidy

tags: silly
9 people liked it

#34

"you dont need a weather man to know which way the wind blows"
— Bob Dylan

75 people liked it

#35

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: temptation
475 people liked it

#36

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
704 people liked it

#37

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy, humor
486 people liked it

#38

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities."
— Maya Angelou

tags: reality
77 people liked it

#39

"When I was your age, television was called books."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: book, fantasy, humour
136 people liked it

#40

"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. "
— Phyllis Theroux

2 people liked it

#41

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown

tags: inspirational
515 people liked it

#42

"If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun."
— Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn
111 people liked it

#43

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. (as said by Miss Piggy)"
— Jim Henson

tags: humor
6,879 people liked it

#44

"I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples."
— Emily Giffin (Baby Proof)

tags: baby, claudia, emily, giffin, love, proof
119 people liked it

#45

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."
— Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul)

27 people liked it

#46

"When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

89 people liked it

#47

"Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise. "
— Vladimir Nabokov

tags: lolita
20 people liked it

#48

"And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my lolita."
— nabokov

tags: writing
5 people liked it

#49

"everyone is a russian communist"
— Horn

2 people liked it

#50

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
— Robin Williamson

tags: humor, men
557 people liked it

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