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

tags: imagination
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
3,196 people liked it

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
3,279 people liked it

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

tags: women
3,166 people liked it

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
3,164 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,931 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,377 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,841 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,491 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
11,227 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
11,452 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,342 people liked it

"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy "
— Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: music, philosophy, revelation, wisdom
96 people liked it

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
— Benjamin Spock

tags: philosophy
90 people liked it

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, philosophy, science
95 people liked it

""There's no problem without solution""
— Lubis, B. E.

tags: life, philosophy
9 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,850 people liked it

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
— Albert Camus

tags: philosophy, truth
67 people liked it

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
— David Hume (A Treatise of Human Nature)

tags: philosophy
40 people liked it

"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: past, philosophy
97 people liked it

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
— Aristotle

tags: greek, philosophy
74 people liked it

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: philosophy
31 people liked it

"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."
— Aristotle (Aristotle's Poetics)

tags: art, literature, philosophy
15 people liked it

"In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society."
— Plato (Plato's Republic)

tags: philosophy
6 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
7,710 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
7,229 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,113 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,565 people liked it

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

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,694 people liked it

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

tags: friend, friendship
1,683 people liked it

"Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo."
— Haruki Murakami

tags: blues, friendship, love, tokio
18 people liked it

"El amor es una amistad con momentos eróticos."
— Antonio Gala

tags: erotism, friendship, love
15 people liked it

"No friendship is an accident. "
— O. Henry (Heart of the West)

tags: friendship
97 people liked it

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