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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
16,137 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,473 people liked it

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

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,399 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
1,971 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,748 people liked it

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, satan
1,180 people liked it

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

tags: politics
966 people liked it

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
— Mark Twain

tags: age
815 people liked it

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, inventing
581 people liked it

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain

tags: courage
369 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 beaten. -- G.K. Chesterton"
— Neil Gaiman (Coraline)

tags: stories
42 people liked it

"'What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.'"
— Neil Gaiman (Coraline)

43 people liked it

"Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: death, life
347 people liked it

"...some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: heart, love
69 people liked it

"Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: women
58 people liked it

"We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?"
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: love
50 people liked it

"After you get stung, you can't get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: stung
44 people liked it

"It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: life, page-279
28 people liked it

"People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard."
— Sue Monk Kidd

tags: bees, life, secret
21 people liked it

"There is nothing perfect...only life."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

20 people liked it

"You gotta imagine what's never been."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

13 people liked it

"There is nothing perfect. There is only life."
— Sue Monk Kidd

tags: bees, life, secret
10 people liked it

"And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love."
— Sue Monk Kidd

tags: deep, love, read
26 people liked it

"It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

9 people liked it

"We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

7 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,997 people liked it

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: faith, inspirational
1,421 people liked it

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run the walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational
526 people liked it

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

tags: convictions, death, life
440 people liked it

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: education
324 people liked it

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count,
It's the life in your years."
— Abraham Lincoln

452 people liked it

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
— Abraham Lincoln

391 people liked it

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

tags: is---, life
2,320 people liked it

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
— Mother Teresa

tags: change, community, world, yourself
78 people liked it

""Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.""
— Corrie Ten Boom

27 people liked it

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