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#1

"I fall asleep with my friends around me, the only place i know. I'm going to call this home."
— Jimmy Eat World

tags: friendship, lyrics, music
253 people liked it

#1

"The only sure path is to live consciously, moment to moment, as you let go of the outcome."
— Charlotte Kasl

6 people liked it

#2

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

tags: inspirational, women
274 people liked it

#2

"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
15,042 people liked it

#3

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
— Henry David Thoreau

171 people liked it

#3

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
8,632 people liked it

#4

"Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

tags: love
243 people liked it

#4

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

tags: life
9,526 people liked it

#5

"Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
— Will Rogers

121 people liked it

#5

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
9,102 people liked it

#6

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. "
— Mother Teresa

tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
173 people liked it

#6

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
8,367 people liked it

#7

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
— Socrates

tags: wisdom
160 people liked it

#7

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: strength
6,766 people liked it

#8

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: humor
803 people liked it

#8

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,860 people liked it

#9

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
— Laozi

tags: travel
146 people liked it

#9

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
7,223 people liked it

#10

"When you love someone you let them take care of you."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: love
207 people liked it

#10

"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: maya-angelou
7,717 people liked it

#11

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: loss, love
182 people liked it

#11

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
5,461 people liked it

#12

"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

tags: friendship, humor, romance
279 people liked it

#12

"He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."
The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me."
He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse."
— Stephenie Meyer

14,485 people liked it

#13

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: inspirational
1,425 people liked it

#13

"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!)

230 people liked it

#14

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do! My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you... Almost from the earliest moments of your acquaintance, I have come to feel for you a passionate admiration and regard, which despite my struggles, has overcome every rational objection. And I beg you, most fervently, to relieve my suffering and consent to be my wife."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

185 people liked it

#14

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

215 people liked it

#14

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,817 people liked it

#15

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational, life
512 people liked it

#15

"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
1,108 people liked it

#16

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

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
469 people liked it

#16

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul
955 people liked it

#17

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity."
— Margaret Nadauld

tags: religion, truth, women
423 people liked it

#17

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
— Emily Brontë

tags: love
517 people liked it

#18

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

409 people liked it

#18

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown

tags: inspirational
515 people liked it

#19

"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year)

tags: inspirational
394 people liked it

#19

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: logic, love
540 people liked it

#20

"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)

874 people liked it

#20

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
551 people liked it

#21

"In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
— Margaret Thatcher

tags: men, women
411 people liked it

#21

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

508 people liked it

#22

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

tags: inspirational
428 people liked it

#22

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: inspirational, love
473 people liked it

#23

"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: love, marriage
1,031 people liked it

#23

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
13,061 people liked it

#23

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor
443 people liked it

#24

"It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys."
— Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)

664 people liked it

#24

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
— Mother Teresa

tags: echoes, endless, kind-words, kindness, love, words
404 people liked it

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