Elizabeth's quotes

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"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
18,788 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
16,512 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
15,215 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
11,462 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,575 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,721 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,546 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
11,241 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
8,035 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,831 people liked it

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,706 people liked it

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."
— John Henry Newman

tags: god, inspirational, love
247 people liked it

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

tags: happiness, love
359 people liked it

" And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: gondor, romance
171 people liked it

"The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears."
— Nora Roberts (Born in Fire (Born In trilogy #1))

tags: ireland, music, romance
26 people liked it

"" To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.""
— Pablo Neruda

29 people liked it

"While I'm writing, I'm far away;
and when I come back, I've gone."
— Pablo Neruda

10 people liked it

"Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate."
— David Pratt

11 people liked it

"Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone."
— Cecelia Ahern (PS, I Love You)

63 people liked it

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
— Albert Einstein

tags: funny
632 people liked it

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

tags: women
1,270 people liked it

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
224 people liked it

"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."
— Susan B. Anthony

tags: bicycle, emancipation, women
75 people liked it

"The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it."
— Jane Kenyon

tags: poetry, poets, truth
21 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,866 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,767 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,389 people liked it

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dreaming, dreams, imagination
586 people liked it

"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary."
— Ashleigh Brilliant

tags: dreams, reason
10 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
435 people liked it

"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
431 people liked it

"The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly: any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife etc - is assured to be noticed.

--The sickness unto death"
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: despair, self
5 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."
— Harvey Fierstein

tags: identity, individuality, self-expression
42 people liked it

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are...Or we can decide for ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Asfixia / Choke)

tags: identity
38 people liked it

""It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.""
— Charles Bukowski

tags: -mockingbird, luck-, me, wish
15 people liked it

"Say no to asphalt!"
— John Bytheway

tags: drug, free-, me, stay, told
21 people liked it

"You bring out the Mexican in me.
The hunkered thick dark spiral.
The core of a heart howl.
The bitter bile.
The tequila lágrimas on Saturday all
through next weekend Sunday.
You are the one I’d let go the other loves for
surrender my one-woman house.
Allow you red wine in bed,
even with my vintage lace linens.
Maybe. Maybe.
For you.
Quiero ser tuya. Only yours. Only you.
Quiero amarte. Atarte. Amarrarte.
Love the way a Mexican woman loves. Let
me show you . Love the only way I know how."
— Sandra Cisneros (Loose Woman: Poems)

tags: inspirational, passion, poetry
23 people liked it

"Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker,

you'd lift a match to the cigarette
just as I put it between my lips.
It's never been like that

between us: none of that
easy chemistry, no quick, half automatic
flares. Everything between us

had to be learned.
Saturday finds me brooding
behind my book, all my fantasies

of seduction run up
against the rocks.
Tell me again

why you don't like
sex in the afternoon?
No, don't tell me--

I'll never understand you
never understand us, America's strangest
loving couple: they never

drink a bottle of wine together
and rarely look at each other.
Into each other's eyes, I mean."
— Deborah Garrison (A Working Girl Can't Win : And Other Poems)

tags: couples, life, love, passion, relationships, romance
21 people liked it

"What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone."
— Alexander Poe

tags: 1668-1744, english, passion, poet, reason
18 people liked it

"Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without."
— Jodi Picoult (Perfect Match)

tags: motherhood
93 people liked it

"New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland.
- Being a mother is one of the most rewarding jobs on earth and also one of the most challenging.
- Motherhood is a process. Learn to love the process.
- There is a tremendous amount of learning that takes place in the first year of your baby’s life; the baby learns a lot, too.
- It is sometimes difficult to reconcile the fantasy of what you thuoght motherhood would be like, and what you thought you would be like as a mother, with reality.
- Take care of yourself. If Mommy isn’t happy, no one else in the family is happy either.
- New mother generally need to lower their expectations.
- A good mother learns to love her child as he is and adjusts her mothering to suit her child."
— Debra Gilbert Rosenberg

tags: motherhood
16 people liked it

"A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name."
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

tags: babies, children, love, motherhood
10 people liked it

"No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother."
— Margaret Sanger

tags: abortion, motherhood, women
13 people liked it

"Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.
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— Rebecca Woolf

tags: motherhood
8 people liked it

"The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.""
— Anna Quindlen

tags: motherhood
4 people liked it

"Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways."
— Roxanne Henke

tags: motherhood
5 people liked it

"The career of motherhood and homemaking is beyond value and needs no justification. It's importance is incalculable."
— Katherine Short (The Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary with King James Bible in Libronix CD)

tags: career, homemaking, motherhood
1 person liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,194 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,353 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
7,121 people liked it

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