joanthebarbarian's favorite quotes

"Memory... is an internal rumor."
— George Santayana

"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

17,884 people liked it

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self Reliance)

tags: greatness

449 people liked it

"If you don't like someone's story, write your own."
— Chinua Achebe

19 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing

2,641 people liked it

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
— Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

542 people liked it

"CALVIN:
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning & inhibit clarity."
— Bill Watterson

tags: writing

60 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

6,843 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women

2,996 people liked it

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: curiosity, women

1,579 people liked it

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women

1,164 people liked it

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: mothers, women

542 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom

372 people liked it

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
— Homer

tags: wisdom

33 people liked it

"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
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— Khalil Gibran

tags: wisdom

30 people liked it

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom

3 people liked it

"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it."
— Willy Wonka

tags: chocolate, factory, inspirational, willy, wisdom, wonka

3 people liked it

"Life's managed, not cured. "
— Phillip C. McGraw

tags: inspiration, inspirational, life, philosophy, psychology, self-help, wisdom

2 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

5,463 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

750 people liked it

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
— Jane Austen

402 people liked it

"Angry people are not always wise."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

331 people liked it

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