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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
11,017 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,358 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,202 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,552 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,247 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
6,125 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
6,069 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,728 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,259 people liked it

"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
4,367 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
2,978 people liked it

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

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
3,602 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,648 people liked it

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,527 people liked it

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: humor, insanity
2,436 people liked it

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friends
2,210 people liked it

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: books, reading
2,051 people liked it

"I hate when people try to kill me. It's just so rude!"
— Nancy Drew

48 people liked it

"When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books."
— Kathleen Norris ("The Prodigal Reader," Ruminator Review, Summer 2002

tags: library, reading
6 people liked it

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

tags: cities, tale, two
164 people liked it

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
— Charles Dickens

114 people liked it

"We need never be ashamed of our tears"
— Charles Dickens

88 people liked it

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."
— Charles Dickens

8 people liked it

"We forge the chains we wear in life."
— Charles Dickens

8 people liked it

"There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior."
— Charles Dickens (Hard Times)

tags: funny, humour, temper
7 people liked it

"Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog !
Grrrr !!!
-Mr. Boffin"
— Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend)

tags: favorite, humor
3 people liked it

"Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. "
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

tags: a, funny, line-
7 people liked it

"She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away
from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him
with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face,
her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did not
turn him from his purpose of helping her."
— Charles Dickens (Little Dorrit)

2 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
14,445 people liked it

"It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: death
481 people liked it

"Remember, friends, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As I am now, so you must be.
Prepare yourself to follow me."
— Common eighteenth-century epitaph

tags: death, life
2 people liked it

"I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)"
— John Newton

tags: death, heaven, last, life, paradise, words
2 people liked it

"I die, but when the grave shall press
The heart so long endeared to thee
When earthly cares no more distress
And earthly joys are nought to me

Weep not, but think that I have past
Before thee o'er a sea of gloom
Have anchored safe and rest at last
Where tears and mourning cannot come

'Tis I should weep to leave thee here
On the dark ocean sailing drear
With storms around and fears before
And no kind light to point the shore

But long or short though life may be
'Tis nothing to eternity
We part below to meet on high
Where blissful ages never die"
— Emily Brontë (The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë)

tags: death, love, romance
3 people liked it

"The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity"
— Emily Dickinson

tags: death, poetry
3 people liked it

""Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" Ms. Pole, Cranford"
— Elizabeth Gaskell (Cranford)

11 people liked it

"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.""
— Elizabeth Gaskell

2 people liked it

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "
— Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South)

tags: future
3 people liked it

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

534 people liked it

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: failure, inspirational, success
225 people liked it

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

113 people liked it

"Life is a journey, not a destination."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

89 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
17,857 people liked it

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
1,237 people liked it

"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you."
— A.A. Milne

tags: confidence
688 people liked it

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: confidence
105 people liked it

"I'm an introvert...I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees,flowers,the sky."
— Audrey Hepburn

32 people liked it

"What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.
- Jeremy Jackson "Bean and Me""
— Jenni Ferrari-Adler (Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone)

tags: alone, introvert, single
3 people liked it

"And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves."
— Marianne Williamson

tags: confidence
35 people liked it

"The LORD is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?
When evil men advance against me
to devour my flesh,
when my enemies and my foes attack me,
they will stumble and fall.
Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
even then will I be confident. -Psalm 27:1-3, NIV"
— Various

tags: bible, confidence, fear
5 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
663 people liked it

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