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"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
3,036 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,299 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,971 people liked it

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

1,998 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,624 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,659 people liked it

"There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: love
1,656 people liked it

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be, inspirational, yourself
1,862 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
1,375 people liked it

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

1,206 people liked it

"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

tags: funny, humour
1,000 people liked it

"She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry."
— Mary Balogh (Slightly Wicked)

tags: balogh, humor, mary, romance, slightly, wicked
9 people liked it

"We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: brats, coronal, ender-s, game, gingerberad, graff, promise, wicked, witch
9 people liked it

"As wicked as you are... You're beautiful to me.
You're the darkest burning star, you're my perfect disease.
"
— Five Finger Death Punch

tags: darkest, disease, star, wicked
6 people liked it

"Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be."
— Toni Morrison (Beloved)

tags: babyghosts, insanity, misunderstandings, sisters
29 people liked it

"Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat)

tags: dreaming, dreams, insanity, sanity
26 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, madness, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, quo, rebels, status, think, troublemakers
7,292 people liked it

"If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: writing
40 people liked it

"Make your choice, adventurous Stranger,
Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had."
— C.S. Lewis (The Magician's Nephew)

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"For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: acceptance, contentment, raining
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"Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age
"
— Pamela Redmond Satran

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"
My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.

Your choice is who you choose to be,
And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me. "
— Ben Harper

tags: acceptance, music
5 people liked it

"She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on."
— Kate Atkinson (Case Histories: A Novel)

tags: books, life
27 people liked it

"Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: life, poetry
79 people liked it

"It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me"
— Pablo Neruda (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition)

tags: neruda, poetry
69 people liked it

""I'm at that place I grew up to leave." "
— Adrian C. Louis (Fire Water World: Poems)

tags: poetry
7 people liked it

"I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.

I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.

I dreamed--and this dream was the finest--
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you."
— Clive Barker (Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War)

tags: inspirational, love, poetry
136 people liked it

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
— Robert Frost

tags: humor, poetry, religion
240 people liked it

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, trial
1,376 people liked it

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

tags: inspirational, women
203 people liked it

"I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!"
— John Waters

tags: attitude, inspirational, negative
21 people liked it

"...And sometime when I wasn't looking, I got a new life"
— Linda Della Donna

tags: funeral, grief, humor, inspirational, sadness, sorrow
36 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational
5,199 people liked it

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
— Anonymous (Holy Bible: King James Version)

tags: heart, inspirational, treasure
58 people liked it

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."
— Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends & Influence People)

tags: inspirational, life, people
73 people liked it

"Who would bring light must endure burning."
— David Zindell (The Wild)

tags: inspirational
8 people liked it

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
— e.e. cummings

tags: inspirational
102 people liked it

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."
— Kahlil Gibrán (The Prophet)

tags: love, marriage
160 people liked it

"You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: love
202 people liked it

"There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again."
— Douglas Adams

tags: love
18 people liked it

"My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet."
— Edith Wharton

tags: love
21 people liked it

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: american-presidents, love, marriage, wisdom
8 people liked it

"i can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. it expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: beauty, emotion, history, memory
54 people liked it

"In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know."
— Marsilio Ficino (Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 3)

tags: ambivalence, doubt, hope, uncertainty
6 people liked it

"It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away"
— Barry Gibb

tags: authors, inspirational, music, romance, songwriters, writing
223 people liked it

"I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: disappointment, love, romance
280 people liked it

"The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last"
— Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan: Love And Theft)

tags: love
92 people liked it

"He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

tags: memories
50 people liked it

"The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last."
— Jonathan Larson (Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical)

tags: inspirational, life, love
17 people liked it

"Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love."
— John Knowles (A Stolen Past)

6 people liked it

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