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

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,336 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
9,270 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,667 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,367 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,898 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,376 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,460 people liked it

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

tags: honesty, inspirational
6,001 people liked it

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

2,011 people liked it

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

819 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
600 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,506 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,768 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
728 people liked it

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, knowledge
467 people liked it

"I can resist anything, except temptation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
379 people liked it

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.

To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.

To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."
— Bernard Edmond

tags: courage, dream, inspirational, strength, succeed
173 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
1,113 people liked it

"I will not say, Do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: gandalf, grief
134 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: adventuring, death, screenplay
813 people liked it

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
— Bertrand Russell

69 people liked it

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
— Bertrand Russell

37 people liked it

"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: science
31 people liked it

"It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you."
— Bertrand Russell

19 people liked it

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: anger
72 people liked it

"I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out."
— Michael Scott

tags: funny, humor, office
226 people liked it

"try and expect nothing,
but be OPEN for anything.
Don't look far for happiness,
but never settle for anything less.
"
— C. S

tags: happiness, love
216 people liked it

"I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself."
— Sri Chinmoy

tags: happiness
84 people liked it

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