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

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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
— Mark Twain

tags: facts, humor
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"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, reality
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"Never memorize something that you can look up."
— Albert Einstein

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"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
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"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

tags: women
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
— Robert Frost

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

tags: life
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

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

tags: life
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library
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"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
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"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life
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"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
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"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love
2,853 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
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"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,681 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
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

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

tags: inspirational, love
2,618 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
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"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

tags: courage
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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
2,092 people liked it

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields

tags: humor, sinister
2,124 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: learning, reading, seuss
2,173 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

tags: greatness
2,071 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,149 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy
1,800 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,805 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
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"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
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"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

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"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,633 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
1,641 people liked it

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

tags: adventure, love
1,775 people liked it

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