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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,820 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,092 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,577 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,375 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,922 people liked it

""The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?""
— Chuang Tzu

10 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,416 people liked it

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
579 people liked it

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

tags: christianity, faith
82 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,428 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
12,399 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
10,736 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
9,513 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
9,157 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
8,003 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
7,819 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,547 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,197 people liked it

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
— Eric Golnik

tags: hope, inspirational, perseverance
2 people liked it

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought."
— Basho

tags: wisdom
29 people liked it

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
898 people liked it

"I can last two months on a good compliment."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, self-realization
2 people liked it

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
— Indira Ghandi

49 people liked it

"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them"
— Jim Rohn

tags: inspirational
3 people liked it

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
532 people liked it

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
170 people liked it

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
— Robert Frost

tags: happiness
239 people liked it

"The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking"
— Louis Vermeil

tags: humor
1 person liked it

"“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.""
— Pablo Picasso

tags: inspirational
84 people liked it

"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them"
— Harold J. Smith

tags: truth, wisdom
1 person liked it

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
— Aristotle

23 people liked it

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
— David Brink

tags: inspirational
4 people liked it

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
— Robert F. Kennedy (Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years)

58 people liked it

""I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.” "
— Pietro Aretino

6 people liked it

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: death, life
1,135 people liked it

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