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"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
17,694 people liked it

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

tags: life
10,919 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,593 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
6,987 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,662 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,837 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,526 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,595 people liked it

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

tags: is---, life
2,230 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,840 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,203 people liked it

"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured"
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: life
1,255 people liked it

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
1,160 people liked it

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

tags: life
1,226 people liked it

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life
839 people liked it

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
853 people liked it

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

tags: beauty, life
944 people liked it

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life, pain
623 people liked it

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
757 people liked it

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

tags: convictions, death, life
429 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
530 people liked it

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
356 people liked it

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
— e.e. cummings

tags: death, life, poetry
357 people liked it

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: better, empathy, life
335 people liked it

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."
— William James

tags: wisdom
85 people liked it

"God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist."
— Merritt Y. Hughes (Ten Perspectives on Milton)

tags: absurd, religion, wisdom
15 people liked it

"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable."
— Rabindranath Tagore

tags: wisdom
10 people liked it

"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

tags: wisdom
8 people liked it

"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: wisdom
9 people liked it

"If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!"
— Adolf Hitler

tags: inspiration, inspirational, love, philosophy, truth, war, wisdom
12 people liked it

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door"
— Milton Berle

tags: change, opportunity, self, wisdom
21 people liked it

"Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: inspirational, wisdom
7 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
1,902 people liked it

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
709 people liked it

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress
476 people liked it

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

tags: cheese, poetry
655 people liked it

"The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence."
— Remy de Gourmont (The Angels of Perversity)

tags: decadence, scoundrel, silence
2 people liked it

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. "
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: authority, silence
7 people liked it

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
1,380 people liked it

"Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
— George Eliot (The Mill on the Floss)

tags: jealous, jealousy
7 people liked it

""Try again.
Fail Again.
Fail Better.""
— Samuel Beckett

tags: again, beckett, better, fail, irish, samuel, try, writer
6 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
1,337 people liked it

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
— Helen Keller

tags: friendship
1,068 people liked it

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship, inspirational
600 people liked it

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

tags: friendship
655 people liked it

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."
— Dean Koontz (Fear Nothing)

tags: friendship
202 people liked it

"I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: friendship
203 people liked it

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: friendship
246 people liked it

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing
233 people liked it

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship
191 people liked it

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