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"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
15,594 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
10,880 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,830 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,133 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
10,048 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,819 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
7,446 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
7,316 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
7,170 people liked it

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

tags: life
6,878 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
6,629 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
6,009 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,552 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,418 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,581 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,433 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,702 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
4,865 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
741 people liked it

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

237 people liked it

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, novels, reading
215 people liked it

"Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like."
— Jane Austen

180 people liked it

""...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short." "
— Jane Austen

102 people liked it

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

66 people liked it

"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: bennet, elizabeth
27 people liked it

"Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

13 people liked it

"pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay)

11 people liked it

"You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: poet
12 people liked it

"Music, my rampart and my only one."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: freedom, inspirational, music, rampart
8 people liked it

"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

7 people liked it

"I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind..."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

4 people liked it

"No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

2 people liked it

"Beauty is whatever gives joy."
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: beauty, joy
4 people liked it

"I dwell in possibility…"
— Emily Dickinson

tags: possibility
83 people liked it

"This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me"
— Emily Dickinson

45 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational
94 people liked it

"Forever is composed of nows."
— Emily Dickinson

60 people liked it

"To see her is a picture-
To hear her is a tune-
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June-
To know her not-Affliction-
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the the Sun
Were shining in your Hand."
— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)

3 people liked it

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
— Emily Dickinson

5 people liked it

"The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest."
— Emily Dickinson

4 people liked it

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry
6 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
326 people liked it

"Heart, we will forget him,

You and I, tonight!

You must forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light.

When you have done , pray tell me,

Then I, my thoughts, will dim.

Haste! lest while you’re lagging

I may remember him!

"
— Emily Dickinson

tags: love
5 people liked it

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational, wrtiting
53 people liked it

"Bring me the sunset in a cup."
— Emily Dickinson

20 people liked it

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
694 people liked it

"Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I know. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life."
— Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)

15 people liked it

"They say I'm a macha, hell on wheels, viva-la-vulva, fire and brimstone, man-hating, devastating, boogey-woman lesbian. Not necessarily, but I love the complement."
— Sandra Cisneros

11 people liked it

"In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing."
— Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)

9 people liked it

"With you I'm useless with words. As if somehow I had to learn to speak all over again, as if the words I needed haven't been invented yet. "
— Sandra Cisneros (Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories)

8 people liked it

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