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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
10,074 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
10,275 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
7,188 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,068 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
5,425 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,565 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,835 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,146 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,616 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,595 people liked it

"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

tags: books, library
30 people liked it

"The world was hers for the reading."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

tags: books, feminist, reading
154 people liked it

"People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

26 people liked it

"My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices. "
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)

tags: book, books, read, reading
11 people liked it

"Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. "
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)

tags: books
9 people liked it

"If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever."
— David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)

tags: humor
34 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,588 people liked it

"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on across the universe,
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
Sounds of laughter shades of love are
Ringing through my open ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a
Million suns, and calls me on and on
Across the universe
~ The Beatles"
— John Lennon

56 people liked it

"We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on..."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, moon, stars, sun
43 people liked it

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, destiny, fate, life
186 people liked it

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
— George Harrison

tags: beatles, direction, roads, travel
94 people liked it

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."
— Jim Morrison

tags: jim, life, morrison, pain, reality
28 people liked it

"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever."
— Jim Morrison

12 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
4,877 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
2,969 people liked it

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: books, reading
2,036 people liked it

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

tags: music
2,058 people liked it

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen

tags: humor, love, romantic, women
1,509 people liked it

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
455 people liked it

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, reality
426 people liked it

"You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different."
— Bill Watterson

tags: change, life
216 people liked it

"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, luck
153 people liked it

"I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, genius, misunderstood
142 people liked it

"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
— Bill Watterson

tags: humor, jerks, science
113 people liked it

"That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"
— Bill Watterson (Weirdos from Another Planet)

tags: happiness
81 people liked it

"I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: art, humor
73 people liked it

"From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in."
— Bill Watterson (Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat)

tags: humor
67 people liked it

"I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal."
— Bill Watterson (The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: humore
65 people liked it

"Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN"
— Bill Watterson

59 people liked it

"What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?"
— Bill Watterson

57 people liked it

"When life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own."
— Bill Watterson

tags: humor, lemons
36 people liked it

"'You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.'"
— Bill Watterson (Scientific Progress Goes "Boink")

tags: animals, bill-watterson, calvin-and-hobbes
34 people liked it

"“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes"
— Bill Watterson

19 people liked it

"I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!"
— Bill Watterson (Something Under the Bed Is Drooling: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection)

tags: calvin, dessert, humor
17 people liked it

"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants."
— Bill Watterson (Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection)

13 people liked it

"Calvin:Why are you crying mom?
Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.
Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: cooking
12 people liked it

"[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
1,092 people liked it

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
263 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Jack Kerouac

tags: change, different, madness, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, rebels, troublemakers
149 people liked it

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road: The Original Scroll)

104 people liked it

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