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"All our young lifes we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us."
— Kevin Arnold Daniel Stern

3 people liked it

"Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
— Carrie Bradshaw"
— Candace Bushnell (Sex and the City)

tags: love, relationships
77 people liked it

"The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
— Carrie Bradshaw"
— Candace Bushnell (Sex and the City)

tags: life
36 people liked it

"Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch."
— Candace Bushnell (One Fifth Avenue)

8 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,378 people liked it

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: heart-break, love
3,316 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
2,417 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
2,186 people liked it

"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Lathe of Heaven)

tags: love
254 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
10,445 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
1,896 people liked it

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be, inspirational, yourself
1,572 people liked it

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
— Marilyn Monroe

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"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

443 people liked it

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: love, world
513 people liked it

"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?"
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: humor, philosophy
410 people liked it

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."
— Marilyn Monroe

362 people liked it

"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know "
— Marilyn Monroe

218 people liked it

"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."
— Marilyn Monroe

152 people liked it

"I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: art, beauty, glamour, sexuality
139 people liked it

"Diamonds are a girls best friend."
— Marilyn Monroe

125 people liked it

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: alone, feelings, not
109 people liked it

"It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
— Marilyn Monroe

69 people liked it

"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. "
— Marilyn Monroe

65 people liked it

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous that absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe

56 people liked it

"Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin’s as natural as livin’; man who’s afraid to die is too afraid to live, far as I’ve ever seen. So there’s nothing to do but forget it, that’s all. Seems to me"
— Clark Gable Anthony Summers (Goddess : The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe)

6 people liked it

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
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— Erasmus

tags: bookaholics
1 person liked it

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books
1,333 people liked it

"The desire to write grows with writing."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: writing
3 people liked it

"Hey, Nana...
people's feelings change easily...
what you see is a house of cards...
nothing's sure,
and nothing lasts forever."
— Ai Yazawa

tags: anime, manga, nana
10 people liked it

"You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt."
— Ai Yazawa

8 people liked it

"Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)"
— Ai Yazawa

tags: manga, nana, reira, yasu
9 people liked it

"What people consider precious is different for everybody."
— Ai Yazawa

tags: hachi, manga, nana
5 people liked it

"Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness."
— Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In)

21 people liked it

"We talked and talked and talked. Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears, at least in my experience. As we talked, lights flicked on inside my head; by the end of the night I was a planterium."
— Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In)

15 people liked it

"There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving."
— Marisa de los Santos (Love Walked In)

7 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
7,942 people liked it

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anti-christian, christ, christianity, christians, jesus
927 people liked it

"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
833 people liked it

"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion
515 people liked it

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
— Mahatma Gandhi

109 people liked it

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering
97 people liked it

"Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny."
— Mahatma Gandhi

100 people liked it

"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion, truth
64 people liked it

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, fruit, goodness
45 people liked it

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