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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
17,865 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
11,815 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
10,178 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
10,409 people liked it

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
— Mae West

tags: humor, temptation
1,073 people liked it

"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often."
— Mae West

tags: surprise
152 people liked it

"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache."
— Mae West

40 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,859 people liked it

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
— Dr. Seuss

194 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,601 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,447 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
1,567 people liked it

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect
1,411 people liked it

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
— Albert Einstein

tags: fav
1,224 people liked it

"The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway."
— Kent M. Keith (Paradoxical Commandments)

tags: inspirational
14 people liked it

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, destiny, fate, life
187 people liked it

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, god, religion
100 people liked it

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
— John Lennon

tags: god
58 people liked it

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
— John Lennon

29 people liked it

"Avant-garde is French for bullshit"
— John Lennon

11 people liked it

"How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"
— John Lennon

tags: life
10 people liked it

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
— Confucius

2,058 people liked it

"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
190 people liked it

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

به خاطر داشته باش كه مهم نيست كه كجا ميري،
برو"
— Confucius

63 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
6,837 people liked it

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

tags: women
2,994 people liked it

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women
823 people liked it

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
— Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women
426 people liked it

"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. "
— Betty Friedan

tags: feminism, housekeeping, orgasm, sex, sexuality, women
150 people liked it

"The truth shall set you free. But first, it shall piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: feminism, humour, truth
47 people liked it

"Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man."
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

tags: feminism, men, women
38 people liked it

"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
— Madeleine Albright

tags: feminism, power, sisterhood, women
34 people liked it

"As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media."
— bell hooks

7 people liked it

"Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us."
— bell hooks

2 people liked it

"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."
— Bette Davis

tags: champagne
21 people liked it

"No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body."
— Margaret Sanger

tags: abortion, feminism, women
9 people liked it

"I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. "
— Mother Jones

tags: feminism, labor
8 people liked it

"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. "
— Dolly Parton

tags: fashion, gender
20 people liked it

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap"
— Dolly Parton

tags: fashion
15 people liked it

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him."
— Cher

tags: marriage, women
100 people liked it

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits
354 people liked it

"Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
"
— Sakyong Mipham

tags: karma, life
10 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
6,730 people liked it

"I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!"
— Alan Alda

tags: guns, hawkeye, mash, pierce, war
3 people liked it

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
— Mae West

tags: evil, temptation
473 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
247 people liked it

"I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing."
— Mae West

tags: modeling, women
198 people liked it

"I use to be Snow White, but I drifted."
— Mae West

tags: decadence, fairy, purity, snow, tales, virginity, white
77 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,751 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
1,647 people liked it

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