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"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
1,002 people liked it

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust
1,202 people liked it

"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

tags: love
1,024 people liked it

"Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: love
994 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
1,335 people liked it

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: dumbledore
987 people liked it

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: love
969 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
907 people liked it

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,040 people liked it

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world
965 people liked it

"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: fear, inspiration
1,060 people liked it

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent
885 people liked it

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

tags: beauty, life
944 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
916 people liked it

"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

tags: funny, humour
928 people liked it

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: courage
926 people liked it

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
853 people liked it

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: age
906 people liked it

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
— Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, love
852 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
914 people liked it

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

827 people liked it

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

897 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
986 people liked it

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: dumbledore
843 people liked it

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
796 people liked it

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading, wicked
763 people liked it

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: love
822 people liked it

"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

873 people liked it

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: truth
789 people liked it

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
— Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

tags: love, requirements
744 people liked it

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

tags: age
780 people liked it

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
757 people liked it

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
784 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

759 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
765 people liked it

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, inspirational, live, love, music
718 people liked it

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
— Anne Frank

tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
754 people liked it

"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
— Mark Twain

tags: morals
701 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational
4,872 people liked it

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: aim-high, good, life, live, moral, morality
160 people liked it

"Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.
If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
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— St. Thomas Aquinas

5 people liked it

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor, taste
703 people liked it

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."
— Walt Disney Company

730 people liked it

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

763 people liked it

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
746 people liked it

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
788 people liked it

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life
742 people liked it

"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor
702 people liked it

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
— Albert Einstein

tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
675 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
672 people liked it

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