Annie's quotes

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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
4,896 people liked it

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

tags: inspirational
2,407 people liked it

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, writing
1,645 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,158 people liked it

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, god, inspirational, religion
1,821 people liked it

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational
1,435 people liked it

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: books, inspirational, life, reading
924 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
1,369 people liked it

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: inspirational
772 people liked it

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: inspirational
965 people liked it

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
699 people liked it

"All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light from a single candle."
— Francis Of Assisi (The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi)

tags: inspirational
571 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
590 people liked it

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: beauty, charity, inspirational, kindness
998 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, كنفسيوس
374 people liked it

"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass. (Sam - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: inspirational, screenplay
319 people liked it

"It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: inspirational
346 people liked it

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational, life, work
221 people liked it

"... in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

tags: hope, inspirational
186 people liked it

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselssly into the past."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: book, inspirational
257 people liked it

"Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: inspirational
204 people liked it

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
225 people liked it

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: happiness, inspirational, life
337 people liked it

"In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: eastern, inspirational, philosophy
250 people liked it

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
— Laozi

tags: inspirational
143 people liked it

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
— Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson)

tags: inspirational
148 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,745 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,889 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,210 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,170 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,617 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,007 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,770 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,438 people liked it

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

tags: life
6,925 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,254 people liked it

"No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true."
— Walt Disney's Cinderella

tags: dreams, inspirational
127 people liked it

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational
104 people liked it

"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."
— Winston S. Churchill (Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches)

tags: inspirational
82 people liked it

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
— e.e. cummings

tags: human-spirit, inspirational
136 people liked it

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
— Walter Bagehot

tags: inspirational
73 people liked it

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: inspirational
105 people liked it

"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy."
— Max Ehrmann (Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life)

tags: happiness, inspirational, philosophical
111 people liked it

"People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...

"They don't find it," I answered.

"And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."

"Of course," I answered.

And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart." "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

tags: inspirational
81 people liked it

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear."
— Meg Cabot

tags: courage, fear, inspirational
145 people liked it

"Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: inspirational
105 people liked it

"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
— Robert Frost

tags: inspirational, teachers
73 people liked it

"'That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.'"
— L. Frank Baum (The Land of Oz)

tags: inspirational, random
58 people liked it

"L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: inspirational, love
99 people liked it