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"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
17,841 people liked it

"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
15,762 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
14,429 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,315 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
11,005 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,227 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
10,160 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
10,394 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
1,550 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
1,876 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
9,247 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,546 people liked it

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
— Mark Twain (The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations)

tags: writing
911 people liked it

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: love
371 people liked it

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams, future, inspirational
256 people liked it

"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

258 people liked it

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

208 people liked it

"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

75 people liked it

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

46 people liked it

"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

45 people liked it

"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

35 people liked it

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: friends
212 people liked it

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams
349 people liked it

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
— John Lennon

tags: friends
52 people liked it

"Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow."
— John Lennon

tags: flower, love
49 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,244 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

2,032 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,857 people liked it

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
— Dr. Seuss

329 people liked it

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: troubles
359 people liked it

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy, humor
294 people liked it

"So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains."
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

151 people liked it

"You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left."
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

52 people liked it

"In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!"
— Dr. Seuss

109 people liked it

"In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back."
— Charles M. Schulz

37 people liked it

"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: good-bye
38 people liked it

"Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults."
— Charles M. Schulz

36 people liked it

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

tags: emotions, feelings
771 people liked it

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
— Helen Keller

21 people liked it

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."
— Helen Keller

tags: effort, optimism, overcoming
29 people liked it

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
4,863 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,301 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,660 people liked it

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: inspirational
537 people liked it

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: laughter
421 people liked it

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: happiness, life
367 people liked it

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."
— Audrey Hepburn

88 people liked it

"If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: fairy-tales
111 people liked it

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
— Audrey Hepburn

96 people liked it

"I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: inspirational
39 people liked it

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