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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,945 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,635 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,086 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
10,324 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
7,511 people liked it

"Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: inspirational
108 people liked it

"Does truth have a moral?"
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)

tags: moral, truth
51 people liked it

""What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War...Athena versus Poseidon?"

"I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you."

"Why?"

"Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?"

-Percy, to Annabeth"
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

34 people liked it

"Percy (to Annabeth): "If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you."
Silena: "Awww . . . Percy, that is so sweet!"
Annabeth: "Shut up, Silena.""
— Rick Riordan (The Demigod Files)

59 people liked it

"'Love conquers all,' Aphrodite promised. 'Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?'

'Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?'

'Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.'"
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

tags: humor, love, true
90 people liked it

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: inspirational, life, meaning
156 people liked it

"Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes
23 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

"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor
715 people liked it

"Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes
63 people liked it

""Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.""
— Wendelin Van Draanen (Flipped)

tags: life, people
17 people liked it

"One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swin out so far you can't swim back."
— Wendelin Van Draanen (Flipped)

tags: charcter, flipped
10 people liked it

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— Albus Dumbledore, (Steven Kloves screenplay) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004,

tags: happiness
28 people liked it

"We'll all keep fighting, you know that right, Harry?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

60 people liked it

"Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: humor
40 people liked it

"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

158 people liked it

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: truth
808 people liked it

"Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: inspirational
206 people liked it

"The only way out is through."
— J.K. Rowling

76 people liked it

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: dumbledore
863 people liked it

"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it,when it did."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: inspirational, life
57 people liked it

""Ah, music, A magic far beyond all we do here!""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: dumbledore
20 people liked it

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: courage, friends
1,302 people liked it

"Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: wit
594 people liked it

"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: friendship, love, weakness
1,488 people liked it

""It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.""
— Dumbledore

tags: harry, jk, potter, rowling
1 person liked it

"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: goodness, love
10 people liked it

"Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."
— Benjamin Franklin

13 people liked it

"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
— Benjamin Franklin

38 people liked it

"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."
— Benjamin Franklin

12 people liked it

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
— Benjamin Franklin

19 people liked it

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: inspirational
55 people liked it

"... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it."
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

tags: story
61 people liked it

"I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself."
— Shannon Hale

tags: laughing
623 people liked it

"We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth."
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

15 people liked it

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, truth
1,110 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,350 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
11,086 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
11,152 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
7,359 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
6,934 people liked it

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

tags: life
7,069 people liked it

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: friend, honesty
235 people liked it

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."
— Walt Disney Company

113 people liked it

"Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time."
— Walt Disney Company

64 people liked it

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