Queen's quotes

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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,737 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,595 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
9,645 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,526 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,752 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
9,444 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,744 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,076 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
7,608 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,154 people liked it

"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
7,029 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity
6,715 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,206 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,596 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,355 people liked it

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

tags: strength
5,430 people liked it

""I testify that there is no god worthy of worship but God (Allah), and I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God.""
— Muslim

tags: islam, muslim, shahada
17 people liked it

"Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others."
— Muhammad Ibn Abdullah

tags: islam, wisdom
21 people liked it

"The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."
— Muhammad Ibn Abdullah

tags: blood, islam, martyr, mohammed, sacred, scholar
11 people liked it

"The most excellent jihad (struggle) is that for the conquest of self."
— Muhammad Ibn Abdullah

tags: islam, wisdom
17 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
4,569 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,615 people liked it

"Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts."
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

tags: friendship
247 people liked it

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship
194 people liked it

"This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure."
— James Lecesne

tags: friendship
139 people liked it

"Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

tags: friendship
25 people liked it

"Friendship is really matter of time. The time that it takes you to do a thoughtful and generous favor that wasn’t expect of you. The time that you take just to answer call, to let someone know that you are there. Friendship is really matter of time, the time that you take when you care."
— Amanda Bradley

tags: friendship
34 people liked it

"Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend."
— Marian Anderson

tags: friendship, gift
29 people liked it

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: friendship
262 people liked it

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. "
— Kahlil Gibrán

4 people liked it

"There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect."
— Nikki Giovanni

39 people liked it

"Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts."
— Nikki Giovanni

10 people liked it

"I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy."
— Nikki Giovanni

tags: writing
4 people liked it

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