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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,231 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
9,100 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,067 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,215 people liked it

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

tags: wisdom
1,634 people liked it

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
519 people liked it

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
617 people liked it

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom
371 people liked it

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
— Michael Levine

tags: wisdom
246 people liked it

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade ?"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: talent, wisdom, work
111 people liked it

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
— George Orwell

tags: generations, intelligence, wisdom
77 people liked it

"There are no ordinary moments."
— Dan Millman (Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives)

tags: philosophy, wisdom
60 people liked it

"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: time, wisdom
68 people liked it

"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself."
— Galileo Galilei

tags: teaching, wisdom
56 people liked it

"If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. "
— Alvin Toffler

tags: wisdom
28 people liked it

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.
"
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom
27 people liked it

"Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character."
— Harry S. Truman

tags: character, wisdom
15 people liked it

""The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us." "
— Black Elk

tags: body, mind, peace, spirit, spirituality, wisdom
15 people liked it

"Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear."
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom
23 people liked it

"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "
— Hermann Hesse

tags: knowledge, teaching, wisdom
14 people liked it

"Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide
what's possible."
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom
14 people liked it

"It's always darkest before the dawn. "
— Proverbs: Allen P. Ross

tags: life, proverb, wisdom
15 people liked it

"That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea."
— Nora Roberts (Black Rose)

tags: humor, life, wisdom
22 people liked it

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation."
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom
22 people liked it

"The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest."
— Patrick Jones (Nailed)

tags: authority, different, metaphor, rebels, wisdom
14 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
14,437 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
15,769 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,352 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
10,398 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,661 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,662 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
3,650 people liked it

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

tags: life, philosophy
3,575 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
2,335 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
1,806 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
2,916 people liked it

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"
— John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)

tags: life, words
1,213 people liked it

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
1,009 people liked it

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: inspirational, life
593 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love
277 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,323 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,640 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,381 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

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational
1,377 people liked it

""The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.""
— Jonathan Antin

tags: inspirational, love
60 people liked it

"Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: life
48 people liked it

"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: life
96 people liked it

"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect."
— Margaret Mitchell

tags: expectation, hope, life
84 people liked it

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
— Antonio Porchia

tags: death, hope, immortality, life, memory, remembrance
57 people liked it

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