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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,494 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,850 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
11,452 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
10,773 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,686 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,606 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
9,185 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,686 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,763 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,472 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
3,930 people liked it

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
— George Burns

tags: family, happiness, humor
672 people liked it

"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families."
— Jay McInerney (The Last of the Savages)

tags: family, friendship, humor
327 people liked it

"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: age, family
177 people liked it

" The Screaming
flashed me back
to a time
when mom and dad
were still together
if you could call
miles apart together."
— Ellen Hopkins (Crank)

tags: family
24 people liked it

"You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges."
— Elizabeth Berg (The Art of Mending)

tags: family
16 people liked it

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
— Scott Adams

tags: creativity
101 people liked it

"Creativity takes courage. "
— Henri Matisse

tags: art, creativity
134 people liked it

"life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one"
— Stella Adler

tags: art, creativity
67 people liked it

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
— Geoffrey Chaucer

tags: creativity, learning, time
25 people liked it

"Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak..surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that."
— Hermann Hesse

tags: creativity, writing
25 people liked it

"When there is no freedom, there is no creativity."
— Soud Qbeilat

tags: art, creativity, culture, freedom, journalism
7 people liked it

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
1,899 people liked it

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
— W.C. Fields

tags: humor, success
958 people liked it

"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."
— Bette Midler

tags: friendship, happiness, humor, inspirational, jealousy, success
70 people liked it

"I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: success
18 people liked it

"If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to."
— Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider)

tags: inspirational, success, work
20 people liked it

"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life."
— Madeleine Albright (Madam Secretary: A Memoir)

tags: faith, inspirational, perseverence, striving, success
7 people liked it

"Don't mistake activity with achievement."
— John Wooden

tags: achievement, acquirement, act, action, activity, attainment, completion, conclusion, deed, doing, energy, enterprise, exertion, feat, fulfullment, labor, occurence, perfection, performance, production, service, success, undertaking, venture, work
10 people liked it

""Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.""
— Denis Waitley

tags: failure, success
10 people liked it

"Decide what you want to be....
Pay the Price ...
And be what you want to be."
— John A. Widtsoe (In a Sunlit Land)

tags: life, success
10 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,121 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
1,009 people liked it

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
579 people liked it

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
— Albert Einstein

tags: albert, einstein, facts, imagination, science
111 people liked it

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere."
— Carl Sagan

tags: imagination
56 people liked it

"You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the tide starts coming in, we won't really have lost anything, because actually only a symbol of it was there in the sand. Another part of us thinks we'll figure out a way to divert the ocean. This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be."
— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

tags: imagination, writer, writers, writing
47 people liked it

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: dreaming, dreams, excitement, imagination, inspirational, planning, possibility
45 people liked it

"I believe in the goodness of imagination."
— Sue Monk Kidd

tags: imagination
10 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,311 people liked it

"A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty."
— John Grogan (Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog)

tags: dogs, learning, life, teaching
47 people liked it

"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
— Frank Herbert

tags: learning, science
24 people liked it

"Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still."
— Chinese Proverb

tags: education, growth, inspiration, learning, life
42 people liked it

"All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.""
— Megan McCafferty (Sloppy Firsts)

tags: learning, student, test
20 people liked it

"Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: christianity, education, learning, religion, theology
10 people liked it

"He who laughs most, learns best"
— John Cleese

tags: learning
9 people liked it

"I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.
--Steelmind"
— Mercedes Lackey (Owlknight)

tags: learning, life
8 people liked it

"Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her [p. 63]."
— Shannon Hale (Princess Academy)

tags: education, learning, loneliness, school
8 people liked it

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
1,146 people liked it

"“Meow” means “woof” in cat. "
— George Carlin

tags: animals, cats, dogs, humor, language
334 people liked it

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