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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,124 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,144 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,823 people liked it

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

tags: friendship
2,944 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
1,505 people liked it

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

tags: friend, friendship
1,540 people liked it

"You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: friendship, love, weakness
1,444 people liked it

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

tags: friendship
1,260 people liked it

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

tags: empathy, friends, friendship, inspirational
1,195 people liked it

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul
626 people liked it

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
— Muhammad Ali

tags: friendship
459 people liked it

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: friendship
246 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,769 people liked it

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

tags: truth
2,151 people liked it

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,137 people liked it

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

tags: books, inspirational, love, truth
910 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth
396 people liked it

"Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you."
— Stephanie Klein (Straight up and Dirty)

tags: humor, life, memoir, truth
340 people liked it

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth
268 people liked it

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: truth
172 people liked it

"Love truth, but pardon error"
— Voltaire

tags: truth
157 people liked it

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
— Robert Frost

tags: education
353 people liked it

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
— Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education
333 people liked it

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: education
266 people liked it

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. "
— Fran Lebowitz

tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics
205 people liked it

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. "
— Jane Austen

tags: education, women
144 people liked it

"Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: education, humor
126 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,537 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,481 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,238 people liked it

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

tags: humor, mankind, people
3,067 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,304 people liked it

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)

tags: humor
1,733 people liked it

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
— Oscar Levant

tags: genius, humor, insanity
1,611 people liked it

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
— Thomas Stephen Szasz

tags: humor, inspirational
1,556 people liked it

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

tags: humor, time
1,442 people liked it

"So did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

1,142 people liked it

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
1,083 people liked it

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
— Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work
1,084 people liked it

"What's meant to be will always find a way"
— Trisha Yearwood

tags: fate, inspiration, love
481 people liked it

"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: fear, inspiration
1,055 people liked it

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
— Walt Disney Company (Mulan)

tags: inspiration, life
338 people liked it

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: inspiration, motivation
244 people liked it

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
— Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation
231 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
6,948 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,235 people liked it

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
1,370 people liked it

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
2,060 people liked it

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
943 people liked it

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
848 people liked it

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