Andrea's quotes

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"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
10,060 people liked it

"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
15,604 people liked it

"Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love."
— Haruki Murakami

tags: love
9 people liked it

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
2,394 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
982 people liked it

"Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

tags: memories
250 people liked it

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
— Haruki Murakami

tags: books, thought
207 people liked it

"There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."
— Haruki Murakami

tags: despair, insightful, writing
66 people liked it

"Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering."
— Haruki Murakami

10 people liked it

"talking about love is like dancing about architecture"
— From the movie "Playing by Heart" (1998)

tags: love
25 people liked it

"Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

7 people liked it

"Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines."
— Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)

22 people liked it

"I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-"
— Frank Sinatra

3 people liked it

"Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
— Alfred Hitchcock

tags: film, movies, nightmare, pleasure
16 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,674 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
14,272 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
17,656 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,256 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,350 people liked it

""You know your truly in love when you can't sleep bcause reality is so much better than your dreams""
— Dr.Seuss

26 people liked it

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy, humor
288 people liked it

"How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon?"
— Dr. Seuss

25 people liked it

"Think and wonder, wonder and think."
— Dr. Seuss

33 people liked it

"Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: comics
73 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities

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— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
8 people liked it

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

tags: life
1,838 people liked it

"The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

16 people liked it

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: simplicity, sophistication
80 people liked it

"All our knowwledge has its origin in our perceptions"
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: creativity, life, self-development
2 people liked it

""Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.""
— Leonardo da Vinci

2 people liked it

"Art is never finished, only abandoned"
— Leonardo da Vinci

8 people liked it

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

tags: authority, silence
6 people liked it

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, da, leonardo, vinci
72 people liked it

"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."
— John Irving

tags: cider, house, irving, living, rules, sad, wtf
69 people liked it

"Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it."
— the Cat (from alice in wonderland)

109 people liked it

"If you don't know where you want to go, then it does not matter where you go... "
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

41 people liked it

"The good life is never stable, never secure, never easy and never ended. It is a series of steps or stages, one leading into the other and all, in their outcome, adding, not subtracting; augmenting, not diminishing; building, not destroying; creating, not annihilating."
-Scott Nearing, 1965

“To have knowledge is to make it, to construct it,
not to record, absorb, or memorize it.
Teaching is not simply telling.”
(Martin Bickman)

When you choose a word to write, it should mean exactly what it is chosen to mean, neither more nor less.
Alice in Wonderland
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— Helen and Scott Nearing

3 people liked it

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
— The Mad Hatter"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

tags: alice-in-wonderland, mad-hatter, nonsense
154 people liked it

"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir...because I'm not myself you see.
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— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

6 people liked it

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. "
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

105 people liked it

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. "
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: bad-memory, forgiveness, happiness, memory
89 people liked it

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."
— Oscar Wilde

62 people liked it

"
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who
think they talk sense.

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— Robert Frost

33 people liked it

"Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women."
— Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)

tags: forgiveness, men, women
22 people liked it

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit."
— Peter Ustinov

tags: marriage
12 people liked it

"Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment."
— Gary Chapman (The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate)

10 people liked it

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."
— Smedes

9 people liked it

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."
— Stanley Kubrick

21 people liked it