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"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Asfixia / Choke)

67 people liked it

"'We could do it, you know'
'What?'
'Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.' "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

tags: life, love, survival, ya, youngadult
42 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
2,438 people liked it

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: dreams, life
2,167 people liked it

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

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,110 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
1,479 people liked it

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

tags: life
1,301 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
1,060 people liked it

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
— Mark Twain

tags: illusions, life
620 people liked it

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

tags: life
423 people liked it

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
— Amy Tan

tags: life
377 people liked it

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: happiness, life
395 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, life, work
228 people liked it

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: adventure, bravery, inspirational, life
182 people liked it

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?"
— Chris Rock

tags: comedy, everyday, funny, humor, life, observational
528 people liked it

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

tags: irony, life, loneliness
181 people liked it

"All great and precious things are lonely."
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

tags: loneliness
32 people liked it

""Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
"Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

53 people liked it

"Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

tags: book, duhhhhhh-no, it-, name, not, thats
222 people liked it

"Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

tags: katniss, rue, song
191 people liked it

"I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.' "
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

tags: love, romance
88 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
7,959 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,740 people liked it

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
1,856 people liked it

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

tags: dreams, music
815 people liked it

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, dreams, goals
436 people liked it

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, dragons, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, fairies, faith, mythology, nightmares, reality, truth
423 people liked it

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams
380 people liked it

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: dreams
218 people liked it

"Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."
— Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hop, insperration, knolage, wisdom
197 people liked it

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams, future, inspirational
278 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
135 people liked it

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: dreams, life, time
120 people liked it

"I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: dreams, stars
93 people liked it

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: ambition, dreams
147 people liked it

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dreams
104 people liked it

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."
— T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph)

tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind
58 people liked it

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: characters, dreams, touchstones
44 people liked it

"You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams."
— L.M. Montgomery (The Road to Yesterday)

tags: dreams
34 people liked it

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
— Salvador Dali

tags: age, ambition, dreaming, dreams, youth
37 people liked it

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: dreaming, dreams, excitement, imagination, inspirational, planning, possibility
43 people liked it

"How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

tags: books, dreams, reading
28 people liked it

"Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. "
— Ray Charles

tags: dreaming, dreams
36 people liked it

"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."
— Laozi

tags: dreams
39 people liked it

"The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time."
— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)

tags: dreams
49 people liked it

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. "
— Erma Bombeck

tags: bravery, courage, dreams, sharing
27 people liked it

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."
— Madonna

tags: dreams
33 people liked it

"The daydreamer's nightmare is to never even try"
— 10 Years

tags: dreams, lyrics, music
25 people liked it

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. "
— John Updike

tags: -_-, dreams, keep, up, ur
17 people liked it

"When a person truly desires something, all the Universe conspires to help that person realize his dream."
— Paolo Coello (El Alquimista)

tags: desire, dreams, inspirational
19 people liked it

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