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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
781 people liked it

"“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”"
— George Washington

15 people liked it

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
— Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity
186 people liked it

"Many Christians have put the political cart before the theological horse."
— Michael Babcock

2 people liked it

"If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them."
— Christopher Moore (Practical Demonkeeping)

tags: humor, insanity, sanity
118 people liked it

"when you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world"
— George Washington Carver

15 people liked it

"One person's craziness is another person's reality."
— Tim Burton

tags: craziness, insanity, perspective, reality, sanity
107 people liked it

"A free people ought...to be armed"
— George Washington

31 people liked it

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
— Ursula K. LeGuin

tags: crazy, life, sanity
90 people liked it

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master."
— George Washington

tags: government, liberty
32 people liked it

"When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: insanity, perseverence, sanity
72 people liked it

"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
— George Washington

47 people liked it

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: psychiatry, sanity
61 people liked it

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. "
— George Washington Carver

tags: be, inspirational, way
66 people liked it

"Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: sanity
38 people liked it

"When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable."
— Dean Koontz (One Door Away from Heaven)

tags: inspirational
7 people liked it

"Sanity is a cozy lie."
— Susan Sontag

tags: sanity
19 people liked it

"There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go."
— Dr. Seuss

80 people liked it

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."
— Akira Kurosawa

tags: insanity, madness, sanity
7 people liked it

"In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!"
— Dr. Seuss

108 people liked it

"Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with."
— Alison Larkin (The English American: A Novel)

tags: eccentricity, genetics, harleys, ladies, life, longevity, old, sanity
3 people liked it

"Only you can control your future."
— Dr. Seuss

118 people liked it

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inspiration
184 people liked it

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
— Dr. Seuss

326 people liked it

"“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”"
— Mary Kay Ash

tags: inspiration, resourcefulness
140 people liked it

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: troubles
356 people liked it

"Love is the absence of judgement"
— Dahli Llama

tags: inspiration
128 people liked it

"I said what I meant, and I meant what I said. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"
— Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)

tags: dr-, humor, inspirational, musical, seuss
408 people liked it

"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him."
— Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation
105 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,613 people liked it

"The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame ...
"
— Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon or Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those Who Think)

tags: inspiration
29 people liked it

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

tags: life
1,828 people liked it

"The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song."
— Gregory Colbert

tags: inspiration
32 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

2,002 people liked it

"You cannot change the world by yourself. You need to have two or three other people."
— Spenser Havlick

tags: change, cooperation, inspiration
29 people liked it

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

2,013 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
4,320 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,224 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, love
2,337 people liked it

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,237 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
2,141 people liked it

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

tags: failure, inspirational, success
2,241 people liked it

"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

tags: logic, love
291 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

2,396 people liked it

"I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

tags: love, secrets, trust
99 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,497 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
11,637 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
2,580 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,228 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,591 people liked it

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