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

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,127 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,176 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,676 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,432 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,847 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,152 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,724 people liked it

"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."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,857 people liked it

"I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: inspiration, wisdom
129 people liked it

"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself."
— Laurell K. Hamilton

tags: sci-fi, wisdom
84 people liked it

"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
— John Russell

tags: wisdom
57 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
165 people liked it

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy"
— J.D. Salinger

tags: happiness
125 people liked it

"When the heart is at ease , the body is healthy."
— Chinese Proverbs

tags: happiness
49 people liked it

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
— Doris Mortman

tags: happiness, know, thyself
31 people liked it

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. "
— William James

tags: action, happiness, motivational, work
23 people liked it

"Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot."
— Aristotle

tags: happiness
19 people liked it

"It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all."
— Carolyn Parkhurst (The Dogs of Babel)

5 people liked it

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
— Jane Austen

82 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
3,842 people liked it

"the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. "
— jeanette winterson (sexing the cherry)

tags: destiny, fate, self-discovery, understanding
12 people liked it

"Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers. "
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

tags: accurate, funny
30 people liked it

"Who says life is fair, where is that written?"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: fair, life, unfair
139 people liked it

"why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out"
— Oliver James

tags: individuality, inspirational, life
168 people liked it

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
— Guillaume Apollinaire

tags: happiness, life
155 people liked it

"Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting."
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Demon in My View)

tags: life
108 people liked it

"Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: crisis, life
85 people liked it

"Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?"
— Mary Oliver

tags: life, poetry
105 people liked it

"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.
"
— Heath L. Buckmaster (Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale)

tags: education, growth, life, realization, self
90 people liked it

"Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why."
— William Edgar Stafford

tags: life, wisdom
62 people liked it

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
— Henry Rollins

tags: life
65 people liked it

"That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion."
— Marguerite Duras (The Ravishing of Lol Stein)

10 people liked it

"It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp."
— Theodore Dreiser

3 people liked it

"A sad soul can kill you quicker, much quicker, than any germ"
— Henry David Thoreau

3 people liked it

"It seems only yesterday that I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.

I know that sounds sad, but I like the whole concept!"
— Billy Collins

7 people liked it

"Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain.

To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’

"
— John Bradshaw

2 people liked it

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time. "
— Jean de La Fontaine

tags: heartache
4 people liked it

"Never frown, even if you're sad because you never know who is falling in love with your smile =) "
— idk.

2 people liked it

""I cry alot-I dont know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful"

"
— Amy Lee

6 people liked it

"Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3 people liked it

"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant."
— David Foster Wallace (Oblivion: Stories)

tags: beautiful-sadness, et-cetera, good-old-neon
10 people liked it

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

36 people liked it

"Never judge someone
By the way he looks
Or a book by the way it's covered;
For inside those tattered pages,
There's a lot to be discovered"
— Stephen Cosgrove

tags: diversity, lesson, tolerance
18 people liked it

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
— Kahlil Gibran

8 people liked it

"If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: spiritual
17 people liked it

"Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human."
— John Cogley

2 people liked it

"My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind. . ."
— Andy Andrews

tags: books
8 people liked it

"There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness."
— Henry David Thoreau

5 people liked it

""One can only tolerate the absolute idiocy of Man for so long before bringing out the bat.""
— Dean Hale

tags: humor, pessimism
23 people liked it

"“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”"
— Elizabeth Wurtzel

16 people liked it

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