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"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
447 people liked it

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspirational
337 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
164 people liked it

"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
17,816 people liked it

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy, humor
294 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
15,735 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,300 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,218 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,642 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
7,536 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity
6,422 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
6,209 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,972 people liked it

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
4,123 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,379 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,493 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,311 people liked it

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational
3,103 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
2,937 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,613 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
2,901 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
1,217 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
405 people liked it

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: individuality
337 people liked it

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
207 people liked it

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche
136 people liked it

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom
128 people liked it

"We have art in order not to die of the truth. "
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art
51 people liked it

"Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

40 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
889 people liked it

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: inspirational
775 people liked it

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
414 people liked it

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: inspirational, optimism
195 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
4,931 people liked it

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational
1,438 people liked it

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, trial
1,289 people liked it

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

49 people liked it

"Existence is prior to essence."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

10 people liked it

"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

15 people liked it

"We are our choices."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: choices
43 people liked it

"To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible."
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

3 people liked it

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shore."
— André Gide

tags: inspirational
46 people liked it

"As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: -, beyond, evil, good
9 people liked it

"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: psychology
12 people liked it

"All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: writing
12 people liked it

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: ant-christ, atheism, philosophy, religion
13 people liked it

"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

7 people liked it

"Amor fati"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

8 people liked it

"Convictions are more hazardous enemies of truth than lies."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

6 people liked it

"I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

13 people liked it

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