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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,267 people liked it

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
1,758 people liked it

"War is what happens when language fails."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: war
324 people liked it

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
— Voltaire

tags: double, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, standards, war
121 people liked it

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reality
2,090 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,677 people liked it

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
— Christian Nestell Bovee

tags: delusion, life
2 people liked it

""If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.”"
— John Churton Collins

5 people liked it

"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession"
— Daniel Webster

tags: inspirational
9 people liked it

"God sends meat and the devil sends cooks."
— Thomas Deloney

tags: devil, god, life
2 people liked it

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."
— G.K. Chesterton

178 people liked it

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
— Laozi (Tao Teh Ching)

tags: philosophy, wayfinding
208 people liked it

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: war
55 people liked it

"To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly"
— Benjamin Franklin

2 people liked it

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
— C. Northcote Parkinson

tags: denial, life
1 person liked it

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."
— Stuart Chase

tags: belief, god, life, religion
1 person liked it

"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
— Tennessee Williams

11 people liked it

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
— Stephen King

tags: life
17 people liked it

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
— Mark Twain

158 people liked it

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: scars, souls, suffering
170 people liked it

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
— Helen Keller

76 people liked it

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men afraid of the light"
— Plato

60 people liked it

"All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets."
— Cory Doctorow (Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town)

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
7,869 people liked it

"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself."
— James Anthony Froude

tags: cousins
5 people liked it

"Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.
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— Jacques Rigaut

3 people liked it

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? "
— Albert Einstein

100 people liked it

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
— Albert Pike

tags: philanthropy
7 people liked it

" "There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.""
— Voltaire

3 people liked it

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: vacation
7 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
17,757 people liked it

"Dance Like No One is Watching...
Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before...
Go to Work Like You Don't Need The Money."
— Kurt Vonnegut

180 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
961 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,331 people liked it

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
— Marilyn Monroe

500 people liked it

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
— Marilyn Monroe

258 people liked it

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits
351 people liked it

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: goals
161 people liked it

"Is anyone anywhere happy?"
— Sylvia Plath

21 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
14,357 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,192 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,168 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,307 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,062 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
6,682 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
5,438 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
6,802 people liked it

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
567 people liked it

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
— Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education
338 people liked it

"It always seems impossible until it's done."
— Nelson Mandela

tags: perseverence
31 people liked it

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