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"with mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
— William Shakespeare

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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. "
— William Shakespeare

6 people liked it

"I am a woman--when I think I must speak."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It: Applause First Folio Editions)

47 people liked it

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

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,025 people liked it

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
764 people liked it

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
336 people liked it

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
— Edgar Degas

tags: art
201 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
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"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, wisdom
1,331 people liked it

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: books
151 people liked it

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

tags: anais, nin, qoutes, writing
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
2,180 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,576 people liked it

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: courage, life
365 people liked it

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death
148 people liked it

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

tags: death, life
1,654 people liked it

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

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,368 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,540 people liked it

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
— Jane Austen

360 people liked it

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: death, life
68 people liked it

"The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: life
62 people liked it

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: journey, travel
65 people liked it

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
— Ernest Hemingway

46 people liked it

"Courage is grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: courage
179 people liked it

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
— Robert Frost

670 people liked it

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
— Robert Frost

tags: love
536 people liked it

"The best way out is always through."
— Robert Frost

tags: feelings
168 people liked it

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
— Robert Frost

53 people liked it

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
— Robert Frost

35 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
1,635 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
933 people liked it

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
1,790 people liked it

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance
569 people liked it

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance, wisdom
215 people liked it

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: failure, persistence, success
145 people liked it

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: giving
113 people liked it

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
— Winston S. Churchill

75 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,506 people liked it

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
— Albert Einstein

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
16 people liked it

"These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: knowledge, nature
11 people liked it

"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: feminism, inspirational
11 people liked it

"Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men."
— Mae West

tags: life, men
144 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
920 people liked it

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: kindness
107 people liked it

"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth."
— Albert Einstein

tags: beauty, ideas, kindness, truth
14 people liked it

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