Tyla's quotes

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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,585 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,280 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
12,505 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,914 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,784 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,153 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
7,280 people liked it

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

tags: love, poetry
2,661 people liked it

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

tags: truth
559 people liked it

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: inspirational
347 people liked it

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
218 people liked it

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

140 people liked it

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: future
107 people liked it

"Beautiful thing, the destruction of words. "
— George Orwell

tags: absurd
65 people liked it

"Big Brother is Watching You."
— George Orwell (1984)

60 people liked it

"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything."
— William Golding (Lord of the Flies)

tags: farcical, poignant
15 people liked it

"All that glitters is not gold. Gilded tombs do worms enfold."
— William Shakespeare

10 people liked it

"What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?"
— William Golding

3 people liked it

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

982 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
715 people liked it

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

392 people liked it

"My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy."
— William Shakespeare

tags: romance, romeo-and-juliet
237 people liked it

"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
— William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

tags: romeo-and-juliet
124 people liked it

"Sometimes you know you've got a chance wtith a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't. "
— Nick Hornby (Slam)

tags: humour, love, romance
30 people liked it

"I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity: A Novel)

35 people liked it

"Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable. "
— Nick Hornby

38 people liked it

"How do people, like, not curse? How is that possible? There are all these gaps in speech where you have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, 'And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers.' How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies. "
— Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)

11 people liked it

"I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway."
— Nick Hornby (How to Be Good)

13 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,507 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,959 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
4,157 people liked it

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
2,259 people liked it

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

tags: women
3,183 people liked it

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: writing
352 people liked it

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: catcher, caulfield, cliff, crazy, holden, hope, kids, run, rye, save
255 people liked it

"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: identity
205 people liked it

"'If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.'"
— Nicole Krauss

tags: life, love
64 people liked it

"For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity."
— Henri Cartier-Bresson

tags: artist, camera, photography
14 people liked it

"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."
— Susan Sontag

6 people liked it

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
155 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
1,622 people liked it

"Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places."
— A.C. Grayling (The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century)

tags: life, principles, reason
12 people liked it

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

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

"Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new!
A new year...a fresh clean start !It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy...let's go exploring!"
— Bill Watterson (It's A Magical World)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, possibilities, snow
109 people liked it

"'It's snowing still,' said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is"
"And freezing"
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.""
— A.A. Milne

tags: humor, optimism
84 people liked it

"A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

tags: friendship, snow
72 people liked it

"Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?"
— Carrie Snow

tags: humor, marriage, men, relationships, single, women
67 people liked it