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

tags: books, soul
10,829 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
10,048 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,246 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,126 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
9,005 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,316 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
6,758 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
6,628 people liked it

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

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,164 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,894 people liked it

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor
851 people liked it

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
464 people liked it

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: classic-insult
224 people liked it

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? "
— Oscar Wilde

122 people liked it

"There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

80 people liked it

"One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: friend, judge
68 people liked it

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: devil, hell, world
61 people liked it

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword"
— Oscar Wilde

49 people liked it

"Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is."
— Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost)

tags: chapter, v
55 people liked it

"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
— Oscar Wilde

56 people liked it

"Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive"
— Oscar Wilde

33 people liked it

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"
— Oscar Wilde

20 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
11,660 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,133 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
10,237 people liked it

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,161 people liked it

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: heaven, religion
393 people liked it

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion
294 people liked it

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson, circa 1781

tags: jefferson, religion, thomas, tolerance, unity
17 people liked it

"I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires." "
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

tags: religion
10 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
4,329 people liked it

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

tags: empathy, friends, friendship, inspirational
1,199 people liked it

"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. "
— Arthur Brisbane

tags: friendship
151 people liked it

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. "
— Ali bin Abi Thalib

tags: friendship
52 people liked it

"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: family, god, parents
241 people liked it

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: family, food
99 people liked it

"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
— Erma Bombeck

tags: family, humor, mothers
84 people liked it

"Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than blood."
— Goldie Nash

tags: family, love
74 people liked it

"Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives."
— Derek Landy

tags: family, humor
60 people liked it

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."
— Jerry Seinfeld

tags: family
53 people liked it

"Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family."
— Wayne W. Dyer (The Power of Intention)

tags: family, friends
25 people liked it

"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."
— Mary Karr "The Liar's Club"

tags: family, humor
9 people liked it

"When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. "
— Jim Butcher

tags: family
106 people liked it

"My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it."
— Rick Riordan

tags: family
97 people liked it

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: family, readers, reading
73 people liked it

"Families are mess. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related, for better or worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."
— Rick Riordan

tags: family
70 people liked it

"You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family."
— Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

tags: family, friends
43 people liked it

"This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

tags: family
8 people liked it

"Man does not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
— Chief Seattle

tags: cooperation, family
3 people liked it

"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. "
— Ann Brashares (Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood)

tags: family, life, love
50 people liked it

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