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

tags: life
11,318 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
10,870 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,331 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
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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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"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

tags: essential, happiness, love
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"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,177 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,595 people liked it

"I love you like a fat kid loves cake!"
— Scott Adams

tags: food, humor, love
976 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
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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
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
3,734 people liked it

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational
3,199 people liked it

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
1,081 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
1,053 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, كنفسيوس
394 people liked it

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: inspirational
567 people liked it

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: inspirational
795 people liked it

"Angry people are not always wise."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
345 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
387 people liked it

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
— Albert Einstein

tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
117 people liked it

"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: time, wisdom
69 people liked it

"'I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?'

'It is an act too often neglected,' said the fox. 'It means to establish ties.'

'To establish ties?'

'Just that,' said the fox. 'To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)

tags: friendship, wisdom
75 people liked it

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

tags: life, wisdom
37 people liked it

"When you dance with a grizzly bear it is best to let him lead."
— Annonymous cowboy saying

tags: humor, wisdom
21 people liked it

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: curiosity, women
1,622 people liked it

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

tags: women
491 people liked it

"A study in the Washington Post says that women have
better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
— Conan O'Brien

tags: humor, men, women
143 people liked it

"Dispute not with her: she is lunatic."
— William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of King Richard III)

tags: insanity, women
110 people liked it

"Inigo: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.

Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die. "
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
656 people liked it

"You can't let crazy people tell you you're crazy"
— Catch 22

tags: movie
39 people liked it

"Rules for Happiness:
something to do,
someone to love,
something to hope for."
— Immanuel Kant

tags: happiness, inspritational
68 people liked it

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. "
— George Sand

tags: happiness, way-to-be
5 people liked it

"'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

tags: inspirational
92 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
83 people liked it

"The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

49 people liked it

"So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"Then it has done you no good at all!"

"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

49 people liked it

""Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to have to explain things to them always and forever." The Little Prince"
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry

26 people liked it

"You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)

21 people liked it

"Here is my secret. It is very simple: One does not see well but with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eye.
(Chapter XXI-The Little Prince)"
— Anthony de Saint Exupery

tags: life
29 people liked it

"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
— The Little Prince

24 people liked it

""I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...""
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

tags: civilization
14 people liked it

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