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"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand."
— Mark Twain

tags: bible
8 people liked it

"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."
— Mark Twain

tags: jail, school
6 people liked it

"Traveling is the death of ignorance."
— Mark Twain

tags: traveling
10 people liked it

"I have never let my schooling interefere with my education."
— Mark Twain

2 people liked it

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
— Albert Einstein

101 people liked it

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

26 people liked it

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational
113 people liked it

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it"
— Omar Khayyám (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)

tags: fate, life
17 people liked it

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
— Ghandi

13 people liked it

""It's not your Christ that I dislike. It's the Christians, who are nothing like their Christ." "
— Ghandi

19 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
14,790 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
18,288 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,096 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,568 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
8,114 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
7,782 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,182 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,678 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
7,457 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,932 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,358 people liked it

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

tags: humor, obvious
5,441 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,191 people liked it

"The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: pain
37 people liked it

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
— Madeleine L'Engle (Many Waters)

tags: belief
65 people liked it

"when I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books, priorities
6 people liked it

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others."
— Simone de Beauvoir

14 people liked it

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"
— Simone de Beauvoir

9 people liked it

"There are people who the more you do for them the less they will do for themselves. "
— Jane Austen

40 people liked it

"Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

tags: emotion, life
16 people liked it

"‘Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.’"
— Paolo Coelho

tags: brida
5 people liked it

"I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us, each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

tags: inspirational, life
2 people liked it

"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: humor, leibniz, religion, watchmaker
62 people liked it

"I was with book, as a woman is with child."
— C. S. Lewis (Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold)

tags: books
8 people liked it

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, reading
244 people liked it

"My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others."
— C.S. Lewis

23 people liked it

"Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

46 people liked it

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscious, but shouts in our pain. It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
— C.S. Lewis

14 people liked it

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: fear, greif
49 people liked it

"He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion."
— C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

tags: aslan, lion
37 people liked it

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