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

tags: humor, procrastination
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"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
5,708 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

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

tags: courage
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: opportunity, optimism, pessimism
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
— Oscar Levant

tags: genius, humor, insanity
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"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
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"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, trial
1,375 people liked it

"[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."
— Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider)

tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
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"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
— Phil Collins

tags: education, learning, teaching
100 people liked it

"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: cute, funny, sad, stupid
239 people liked it

"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel

tags: depression
67 people liked it

"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities."
— William Arthur Ward

17 people liked it

"After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony."
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

tags: anxiety, love
28 people liked it

"...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same..."
— The Fray

tags: music
43 people liked it

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: adversity, character, power
366 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational
73 people liked it

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
— Woody Allen

tags: success
126 people liked it

"Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy."
— Janet Long

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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
— Herm Albright

93 people liked it

"It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind."
— Alex Karras

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"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
— Ambrose Bierce

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"The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: dogs, humor
30 people liked it

"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: independent, inspirational, mad
6 people liked it

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."
— Tyra Banks

tags: confidence, inspirational, shine
36 people liked it

"Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else."
— Mignon McLaughlin (The Complete Neurotic's Notebook)

tags: doubt, self-consciousness
4 people liked it

"Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day."
— Ringo Starr

tags: ambitious
6 people liked it

"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension."
— Joshua Loth Liebman

tags: life, maturity, tension
2 people liked it

"Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never."
— Charles Caleb Colton

tags: friendship, love
32 people liked it

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book."
— Charles Caleb Colton

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"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live"
— Charles Caleb Colton

tags: death, life, live, suicide
9 people liked it

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: suicide
39 people liked it

"It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait."
— Erica Jong (Fear of Flying)

tags: suicide
11 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing
958 people liked it

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
— Stephen King (Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay)

tags: god, humor, religion
915 people liked it

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

tags: books
481 people liked it

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
— Stephen King

tags: -on, from, writing-
318 people liked it

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
— Stephen King

tags: books
284 people liked it

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
158 people liked it

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
— Stephen King

147 people liked it

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear."
— Stephen King (Different Seasons)

tags: writing
138 people liked it

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