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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
17,832 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,222 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
6,823 people liked it

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people
3,107 people liked it

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

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,605 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
2,172 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
1,870 people liked it

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, time
1,464 people liked it

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
1,310 people liked it

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
1,235 people liked it

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

tags: women
1,161 people liked it

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

1,036 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

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
918 people liked it

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
— Joan Crawford

tags: love
879 people liked it

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading
784 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
820 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
748 people liked it

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life
754 people liked it

"i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"
— e.e. cummings

tags: love, poetry
737 people liked it

"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
— Milan Kundera

tags: love
638 people liked it

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."
— David Byrne

tags: love
720 people liked it

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
— Henry James

tags: kindness
651 people liked it

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

tags: cheese, poetry
659 people liked it

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hate, love
659 people liked it

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
— Robert Frost

670 people liked it

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
617 people liked it

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance
567 people liked it

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
— Joss Whedon

tags: individuality
547 people liked it

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
— Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love
598 people liked it

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
573 people liked it

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
507 people liked it

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love
504 people liked it

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
— C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair)

tags: hell, love, safe
413 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

401 people liked it

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
— Albert Einstein

tags: love
439 people liked it

"If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake."
— Confucius

tags: inspirational, كنفسيوس
374 people liked it

"Who, being loved, is poor?"
— Oscar Wilde

tags: love
362 people liked it

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: love
371 people liked it

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

tags: hope
410 people liked it

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
— Groucho Marx

tags: classic-insult
369 people liked it

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
— Jane Austen

360 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
372 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
359 people liked it

"You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange."
— Milan Kundera

tags: love
374 people liked it

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: happiness, love
331 people liked it

"This too shall pass..."
— Abraham Lincoln

335 people liked it

"War is what happens when language fails."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: war
326 people liked it

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart."
— Erma Bombeck

tags: carpe-diem, food, titanic
315 people liked it

"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year)

tags: inspirational
315 people liked it

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