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"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein

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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
— Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs
478 people liked it

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."
— Nicholas Sparks (At First Sight)

tags: life, love
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"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
— Mark Twain

tags: newspapers
500 people liked it

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
— Albert Einstein (Relativity: The Special and the General Theory)

tags: physics, science
571 people liked it

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, inventing
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"If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake."
— Confucius

tags: inspirational, كنفسيوس
375 people liked it

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
521 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth
407 people liked it

"Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: thinking
227 people liked it

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
— Amy Tan

tags: life
359 people liked it

"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion
515 people liked it

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
341 people liked it

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
574 people liked it

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
364 people liked it

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

447 people liked it

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature"
— Dave Barry

tags: humor
508 people liked it

"I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
344 people liked it

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

tags: fate, inspiration, love
488 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
372 people liked it

"Do you hate people?

I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
— Charles Bukowski (The Movie: Barfly)

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"It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd
246 people liked it

"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
330 people liked it

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
— Laozi

tags: life, travel
329 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
419 people liked it

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the library the sign says 'shut the fuck up!'"
— Rodney Dangerfield

tags: fuck, funny, humour, libraries, neighborhoods, profanity
401 people liked it

"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
402 people liked it

"Yes We Can!"
— Barack Obama

tags: action, hope, positivity
217 people liked it

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
— Albert Einstein

444 people liked it

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

tags: art
336 people liked it

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain

tags: courage
353 people liked it

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
— Albert Einstein

tags: love
440 people liked it

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
— Albert Einstein

342 people liked it

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
— e.e. cummings

tags: death, life, poetry
361 people liked it

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

tags: clothing
330 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

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: happiness, love
333 people liked it

"Never memorize something that you can look up."
— Albert Einstein

438 people liked it

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love
505 people liked it

"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
332 people liked it

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
— Mark Twain

tags: food
171 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
545 people liked it

"Courage is grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: courage
178 people liked it

"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

438 people liked it

"...my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side..."
— Abraham Lincoln

194 people liked it

"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"
— Mark Twain

tags: decisions, humor, mind
232 people liked it

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

210 people liked it

"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

347 people liked it

"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
— Mark Twain

419 people liked it

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
— Mark Twain

tags: history
216 people liked it

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