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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
810 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
7,602 people liked it

"A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone."
— Jo Goodwin

13 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,464 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
10,484 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
5,624 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
6,250 people liked it

"In a partner, always work for the three B’s; Beauty, brains, and bersonality."
— Ronnie Khalil

tags: humor
2 people liked it

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
1,631 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
9,301 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,277 people liked it

""If man has no tea in him,
he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.""
— Japanese proverb

4 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
9,136 people liked it

"Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness."
— Michel de Montaigne

4 people liked it

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,289 people liked it

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

957 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,869 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
681 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,402 people liked it

"These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps"
— Victor Hugo

7 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,583 people liked it

"One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

6 people liked it

"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
2,663 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
15,843 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,724 people liked it

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: writing
567 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,463 people liked it

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"
— Albert Camus

tags: coffee, sucide
164 people liked it

"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground)

tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
47 people liked it

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
1,959 people liked it

"Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

102 people liked it

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
— Albert Einstein

tags: mistakes
1,917 people liked it

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

93 people liked it

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect
1,418 people liked it

"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

46 people liked it

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
1,199 people liked it

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

tags: romance
134 people liked it

"Love is a better master than duty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: love
336 people liked it

"What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
— George Orwell (1984)

9 people liked it

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
— Mark Twain

tags: newspapers
502 people liked it

"Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters."
— Alexander the Great

3 people liked it

"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

7 people liked it

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
— Henry Fielding (Love in Several Masques)

3 people liked it

"Do not scorn a weak cub. He may become the brutal tiger."
— Mongolian proverb

3 people liked it

"Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it."
— Peter Pan (Chapter 1)

3 people liked it

"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
— William Congreve

3 people liked it

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."
— Octavio Paz

10 people liked it

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
— Octavio Paz

10 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,025 people liked it

"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
2,007 people liked it

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