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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
16,575 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
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
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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
10,851 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,813 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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"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
6,601 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,757 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
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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,422 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
1,001 people liked it

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom
819 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
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"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
832 people liked it

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
661 people liked it

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
532 people liked it

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
563 people liked it

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, wisdom
1,408 people liked it

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
560 people liked it

"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
516 people liked it

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom
381 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
396 people liked it

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom
402 people liked it

"Angry people are not always wise."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
352 people liked it

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: wisdom
362 people liked it

"Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
374 people liked it

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: wisdom
249 people liked it

"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

tags: humour, wisdom
344 people liked it

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
— Michael Levine

tags: wisdom
251 people liked it

"I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, life, wisdom
215 people liked it

"Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."
— Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hop, insperration, knolage, wisdom
199 people liked it

"When you know better you do better."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: education, intelligence, knowledge, wisdom
194 people liked it

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: age, humor, old, wisdom
283 people liked it

"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
191 people liked it

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance, wisdom
228 people liked it

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
— Robert Frost

tags: england, new, wisdom
212 people liked it

"A little nonsense now and then,
Is cherished by the wisest men."
— John August (3 Engel für Charlie)

tags: nonsense, wisdom
166 people liked it

"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
— Alexander Hamilton

tags: bravery, conviction, ignorance, intelligence, stand, strength, stupidity, wisdom
199 people liked it

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books, honesty, wisdom
160 people liked it

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
— Socrates

tags: wisdom
121 people liked it

"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: poetry, wisdom
164 people liked it

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
— Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose)

tags: curiosity, wisdom
134 people liked it

"The past has no power over the present moment."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: education, inspirational, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom
118 people liked it

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom
138 people liked it

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade ?"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: talent, wisdom, work
114 people liked it

"Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."
— Shannon Hale (Book of a Thousand Days)

tags: wisdom
120 people liked it

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom
178 people liked it

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom
112 people liked it

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