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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: age, dreams, goals
393 people liked it

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
— Corrie Ten Boom

80 people liked it

"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. "
— Isaac Newton

8 people liked it

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
— J.M. Barrie

115 people liked it

""It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.""
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: accuracy
14 people liked it

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."
— Alphonse Karr

tags: gratitude
13 people liked it

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: reading, writing
140 people liked it

"What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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— Corrie Ten Boom

21 people liked it

"Having a two-year-old is like having a blender without a lid."
— Jerry Seinfeld

33 people liked it

"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."
— Neil Gaiman

37 people liked it

""In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.""
— John Grogan (Bad Dogs Have More Fun: And Other Tails of Animals, Life and Family)

tags: humor, inspirational, journalism, memoir
6 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
6,607 people liked it

"I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
— Jane Wagner (The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe)

tags: humour, language
21 people liked it

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1)"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

102 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
369 people liked it

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks."
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

3 people liked it

"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night."
— Isabel Allende

tags: books
107 people liked it

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: books, censorship, reading
72 people liked it

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained"
— Walt Disney Company

70 people liked it

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: dreams
210 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
7,150 people liked it

"Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: peanuts
113 people liked it

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
— Abraham Lincoln

366 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
401 people liked it

"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
— Carl Sagan

16 people liked it

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

28 people liked it

"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. "
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

112 people liked it

"One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries."
— A.A. Milne

119 people liked it

"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope."
— Kofi Annan

tags: literacy
2 people liked it

"Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery."
— Benjamin Franklin

5 people liked it

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven: With, the Philosophy of Composition)

116 people liked it

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

tags: imagination
55 people liked it

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
— Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women
416 people liked it

"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when your finished."
— Benjamin Franklin

5 people liked it

"A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone."
— Jo Goodwin

13 people liked it

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
— Carl Sagan

45 people liked it

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."
— Bono

16 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
556 people liked it

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out."
— Carl Sagan

30 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,227 people liked it

"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work"
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: opportunity, work
120 people liked it

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

1,021 people liked it

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational
1,352 people liked it

"Never judge a book by its movie."
— J.W. Eagan

tags: film, humour, manuscript
564 people liked it

"Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill."
— Ray Bradbury

6 people liked it

"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. "
— Judy Garland

tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality
94 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness
4 people liked it

"We shouldn't teach great books;
we should teach a love of reading."
— B.F. Skinner

12 people liked it

"Well done is better than well said."
— Benjamin Franklin

94 people liked it

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: courage
917 people liked it

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