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"In a world of Cheerios, be a Fruit Loop!"
— Unknown Fan

2 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,443 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,324 people liked it

"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
15,773 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
7,404 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,943 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,202 people liked it

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
1,779 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,854 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,919 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,027 people liked it

"All you need is love."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, love
600 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,647 people liked it

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
— John Lennon

tags: activism, beatles, materialism, peace, society, television
474 people liked it

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fear, life, love
576 people liked it

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, men, women
564 people liked it

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
399 people liked it

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams
349 people liked it

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
— John Lennon

tags: 1960s, beatles, love, peace, sixties
241 people liked it

"Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
341 people liked it

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, imagination, reality
168 people liked it

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, destiny, fate, life
187 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
129 people liked it

"War is over ... If you want it."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fighting, peace, war
81 people liked it

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
— John Lennon

76 people liked it

"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, emotions, pain, suffering
77 people liked it

"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, love, sun, universe
65 people liked it

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
— John Lennon

tags: friends
52 people liked it

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
— John Lennon

tags: 1960s, beatles, hope, possibility, responsibility
38 people liked it

"We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on..."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, moon, stars, sun
44 people liked it

"Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow."
— John Lennon

tags: flower, love
49 people liked it

"When you're drowning you don't think, "I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me." You just scream."
— John Lennon

tags: humour
47 people liked it

"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small, by giving you no time instead of it all...till you're so full of fear you can't function at all. A working class hero is something to be."
— John Lennon

tags: age, beatles, bourgeois, fear, time, work
34 people liked it

"I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, dream, individuality, walruses
31 people liked it

"I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, individuality
23 people liked it

"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."
— John Lennon

31 people liked it

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
— John Lennon

29 people liked it

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
1,769 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
1,353 people liked it

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, trial
1,294 people liked it

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: life, love
1,092 people liked it

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

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
603 people liked it

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
508 people liked it

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
449 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
398 people liked it

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
238 people liked it

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

369 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

"The future depends on what you do today."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, carpe-diem, future, present
225 people liked it

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
348 people liked it

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