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"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
10,935 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,418 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
9,309 people liked it

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

tags: life
7,499 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity
6,888 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
7,232 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
6,662 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
6,480 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,811 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,808 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
19,011 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
15,380 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
12,581 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,995 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,834 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,987 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,285 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,200 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,341 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,583 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,212 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,677 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,697 people liked it

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,721 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,620 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
2,690 people liked it

"I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem."
— Diana Gabaldon (Dragonfly in Amber)

tags: claire, fiction, fraser, historical, romance, scotland, time, travel
316 people liked it

"You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together"
— Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat)

tags: blood, love, romance
213 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
2,842 people liked it

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
1,465 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
869 people liked it

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get"
— W.P. Kinsella

tags: happiness, success
203 people liked it

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

tags: life
956 people liked it

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: future, life, past
401 people liked it

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
— e.e. cummings

tags: death, life, poetry
411 people liked it

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
— Mark Twain

tags: illusions, life
630 people liked it

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
283 people liked it

"One Can't Have Wisdom Without Living Life"
— kianoush

tags: life, wisdom
67 people liked it

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
— Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex
1,113 people liked it

"Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

tags: love, sex
105 people liked it

"Sex is an emotion in motion."
— Mae West

tags: sex
137 people liked it

"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
— Mae West

tags: humor, sex
276 people liked it

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships
112 people liked it

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships. "
— Henry Winkler

tags: relationships
18 people liked it

"“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”"
— Dave Matthews

tags: dave, friends, love, matthews, relationships
128 people liked it

"Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved."
— William P. Young

tags: relationships, trust
46 people liked it

"my only complaints are two:
that I didn't make myself ready
for you sooner in life, that
I can't give you better,
Love you more.
"
— Jan Beatty

tags: relationships
4 people liked it

"The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is
futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone
who is capable of significant change; that sort of person
exists only in our imaginations."
— Scott Adams (God's Debris: A Thought Experiment)

tags: relationships
20 people liked it

"You Can't Lose Something You Never Had"
— Kate Hudson

tags: relationships
13 people liked it

"I guarantee there will be tough times, I guarantee that at one point one or both of us is gonna wanna get out of this thing, but i also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, i'll regret it for the rest of my life because i know in my heart, your the only one for me!! "
— Julia Roberts

tags: -runaway, bride-, inspirational, relationships
8 people liked it

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