Stephanie's quotes

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"I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!"
— J.M. Barrie

39 people liked it

"...to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: travel
9 people liked it

"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."
— Alexander Pope

6 people liked it

"There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? and Who's in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief and suffering."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

9 people liked it

"In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles")

tags: love
7 people liked it

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
— Albert Einstein

tags: dangerous, evil, people, world
369 people liked it

"Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

62 people liked it

"'It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.' "
— Sarah Orne Jewett (A Country Doctor)

3 people liked it

"There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

79 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,993 people liked it

"Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: life
50 people liked it

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination."
— Mark Twain

tags: beliefs, politics, religion
9 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,948 people liked it

"It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. "
— Dave Barry

tags: babies, humor, men, pregnancy
76 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,529 people liked it

"I have loved the stars too fondly,
to be fearful of the night."
— Sarah Williams

6 people liked it

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."
— Maya Angelou

102 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,911 people liked it

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
— Dave Barry

34 people liked it

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,893 people liked it

""Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it" - Mark Twain"
— Mark Twain

6 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,256 people liked it

"Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. We have made up a God in our image. But God remains who He is and always has been: the energy, the thought of unconditional love.
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— Marianne Williamson (Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

11 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

2,045 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
6,867 people liked it

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
— Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs
482 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,654 people liked it

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
— Agatha Christie

22 people liked it

"We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself."
— Sarah McLachlan

tags: inspirational
10 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,110 people liked it

"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
1,958 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,588 people liked it

"Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace."
— Marianne Williamson

11 people liked it

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

tags: education
3,082 people liked it

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: animals, dogs
215 people liked it

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

tags: truth
2,192 people liked it

"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
10,236 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
2,008 people liked it

"Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.
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— Marianne Williamson (Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

4 people liked it

"Traveling is the death of ignorance."
— Mark Twain

tags: traveling
10 people liked it

"I figure when you come to a crossroads, you have a choice: right turn, left turn, straight ahead. Or you can just pull over to the side of the road and call it quits. But if you've got a good stretch of road up ahead and someone fun to travel it with, why stay stuck in the galdern ditch?"
— Chris Grabenstein

3 people liked it

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

tags: books, classic, reading
1,727 people liked it

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

tags: death, life
1,668 people liked it

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. "
— Plato

7 people liked it

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, wisdom
1,340 people liked it

"It is higher and nobler to be kind."
— Mark Twain

6 people liked it

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

tags: living, world
1,055 people liked it