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"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

236 people liked it

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
— Mahatma Ghandi

tags: inspirational
101 people liked it

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
— Indira Ghandi

46 people liked it

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
— M.K. Ghandi

30 people liked it

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
— Mahatma Gandhi

13 people liked it

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, friends, humor, vegetarianism
516 people liked it

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. "
— Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, vegetarianism
116 people liked it

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: compassion, ethics, peace, vegetarianism
81 people liked it

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: animals, morality, vegetarianism
79 people liked it

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: davinci, vegetarianism
29 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,144 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,465 people liked it

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

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,041 people liked it

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
809 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth
417 people liked it

"No one is pro-abortion. "
— Barack Obama

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"One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world."
— Barack Obama

tags: barak, obama
45 people liked it

"[Abridged from The Velveteen Rabbit:] Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
— Margery Williams

tags: inspirational
4 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
9,199 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
379 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,553 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,211 people liked it

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
2,113 people liked it

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

tags: dreams, music
798 people liked it

"true apothecary thy drugs art quick"
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

tags: death, poison, romeo-and-juliet, sad
3 people liked it

""A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.""
— Willy Wonka

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"If the good Lord had meant for us to walk, he wouldn t have invented roller skates."
— Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory (the original)

tags: roller-skates, walk, walking
2 people liked it

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: idiotic-book, love, romance, romantic
5,586 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,834 people liked it

"The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear."
— Thomas Merton

6 people liked it

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
— Thomas Merton

10 people liked it

"The least of learning is done in the classrooms. "
— Thomas Merton

3 people liked it

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
— Thomas Merton

tags: inspirational, peace, sacrifice
4 people liked it

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

tags: war
333 people liked it

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
194 people liked it

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
— John Steinbeck

tags: politics, war
132 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
123 people liked it

"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: war
87 people liked it

"How is it possible to have a civil war?"
— George Carlin

tags: funny, humor, war
36 people liked it

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
— Jimi Hendrix

481 people liked it

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: peace
68 people liked it

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
— George W. Bush

tags: books, dumb, reading
223 people liked it

"It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it."
— George W. Bush

31 people liked it

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