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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
18,998 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,586 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,830 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
7,836 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
6,482 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,493 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
4,042 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
3,911 people liked it

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

tags: reading
3,183 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,964 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
2,679 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,285 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
2,483 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,464 people liked it

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

tags: books, classic, reading
1,806 people liked it

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,693 people liked it

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics
1,572 people liked it

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

tags: choice, poetry
1,636 people liked it

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
847 people liked it

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading
855 people liked it

"If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane"
— Robert Frost

tags: laughter
490 people liked it

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: books, humor
848 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,805 people liked it

"When you come to a fork in the road take it"
— Yogi Berra

tags: misquotes, slight
52 people liked it

"If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else."
— Yogi Berra

tags: integrity
45 people liked it

""He must have made that before he died." "
— Yogi Berra

10 people liked it

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else."
— Berra, Yogi

tags: life
6 people liked it

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books, honesty, wisdom
161 people liked it

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
— Thomas Jefferson

165 people liked it

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, destruction, federal, financial, loans, money, philosophy, political, politics, power, science, society, violence, war
135 people liked it

"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: principle, style
116 people liked it

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics
133 people liked it

"Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants."
— Thomas Jefferson

80 people liked it

"I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged."
— Thomas Jefferson

40 people liked it

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
— Thomas Jefferson

43 people liked it

"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
— Thomas Jefferson

34 people liked it

"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?"
— Thomas Jefferson

28 people liked it

"A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!"
— Thomas Jefferson

23 people liked it

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
— Thomas Jefferson

18 people liked it

"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
— Thomas Jefferson

19 people liked it

"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas
20 people liked it

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
— Thomas Jefferson

14 people liked it

"Every Generation Needs a New Revolution"
— Thomas Jefferson (Quotations of Thomas Jefferson)

tags: inspirational
12 people liked it

"A room without books is like a life without meaning"
— Thomas Jefferson

11 people liked it

"Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: government
13 people liked it

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
— Thomas Jefferson

10 people liked it

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent they conquered."
— Thomas Jefferson

10 people liked it

"The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements."
— Thomas Jefferson

10 people liked it

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: courage, despotism, liberty, life, timid
7 people liked it

"The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself."
— Thomas Jefferson

7 people liked it

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