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"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
17,764 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,694 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
14,366 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,272 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,966 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
10,112 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
9,208 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
7,365 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,795 people liked it

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
— Emilie Buchwald

tags: children, parenting, reading
57 people liked it

"If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes)

tags: children, future, responsibility, worry
40 people liked it

"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: children
9 people liked it

"Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes."
— Lawana Blackwell

tags: children
5 people liked it

"Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. "
— Rick Riordan

tags: children, people, punishment, young, youth
78 people liked it

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
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— Phyllis Diller

tags: children, housekeeping
25 people liked it

"I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them."
— Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)

tags: books, child, children
15 people liked it

"Kids are full of life. Sometimes it spills out of them in a whirlwind of activity. "
— Viking Fitness

tags: activity, children
2 people liked it

"It was more like my heart had grown, swollen up to twice its size in that moment. All that extra space, already filled."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: children, motherhood
20 people liked it

"Invitation
If you are a dreamer, come in.
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar
A hope-er, pray-re, a magic bean buy-er...
If you're a pretneder, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!

My Beard
My beard grows to my toes
I never wears no clothes
I wrap my hair
Around my bare
And down the road I goes

Pirate Captain Jim
"Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim
"But Captain Jim, I cannot swim."
"Then you must steer us through the gale."
"But Captain Jim, I cannot sail."
"Then down with the galley slaves you go."
"But Captain Jim, I cannot row."
"Then you must be the pirate's clerk."
"But Captain Jim, I cannot work."
"
— Shel Silverstein

tags: children, poetry
7 people liked it

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DECEMBER...
JANUARY...

Time passes. Even when it seems impossibe. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly,in strange lurches and dragging lulls,but pass it does. Even for me."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: bella, moon, new, pain
47 people liked it

"You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in the universe; the harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.
- Wizard"
— August Rush

16 people liked it

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
— Pierre Auguste Renoir

3 people liked it

"I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

9 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,469 people liked it

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
2,070 people liked it

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

tags: dreams, music
784 people liked it

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
— Maya Angelou

tags: loneliness, music, refuge
455 people liked it

"Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.

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— Helen Thompson

tags: music
5 people liked it

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music
335 people liked it

"if i am young and wrong, then you are right. But if i am young, and right. what does my age matter?
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— Sophocles (Antigone)

tags: inspirational
6 people liked it

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."
— Anne Frank (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl)

69 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,609 people liked it

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

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,044 people liked it

"The truth is, you could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt."
— Taking Back Sunday

4 people liked it

"Dread Pirate Roberts: Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

74 people liked it

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. "
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

77 people liked it

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
— Groucho Marx

30 people liked it

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."
— Marcus Aurelius

tags: inspirational, life
24 people liked it

"Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place.
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— Carrie Latet

3 people liked it

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
— Walt Disney Company (Mulan)

tags: inspiration, life
344 people liked it

"What's meant to be will always find a way"
— Trisha Yearwood

tags: fate, inspiration, love
488 people liked it

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inspiration
185 people liked it

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, lessons, life, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
185 people liked it

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
141 people liked it

"The spirit of creation is eternal and life is proof of miracles."
— Rob Fanney

tags: inspiration
27 people liked it

"Life itself is a battle but those that are battle ready can fight the battle.Remember that tough time never last but tough people last."
— Ade

tags: inspiration
32 people liked it

"The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song."
— Gregory Colbert

tags: inspiration
32 people liked it

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: beauty, charity, inspirational, kindness
998 people liked it

"And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love."
— Nicholas Sparks

tags: life, simplicity
137 people liked it

"People die . . . so love them every day.
Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
And if you love, you'll never be alone."
— L.J. Smith (Witchlight)

64 people liked it

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