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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"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
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,644 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
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"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."
— Maya Angelou

138 people liked it

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
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— Maya Angelou

101 people liked it

"Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. "
— Maya Angelou

tags: music
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"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."
— Maya Angelou

74 people liked it

"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'."
— Maya Angelou

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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."
— Maya Angelou

9 people liked it

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
1,637 people liked it

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
1,207 people liked it

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
813 people liked it

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

712 people liked it

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein

148 people liked it

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
— Albert Einstein

tags: future
124 people liked it

"I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details."
— Albert Einstein

109 people liked it

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
3,125 people liked it

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
— Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, love
864 people liked it

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: love
991 people liked it

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
— Mother Teresa

tags: echoes, endless, kind-words, kindness, love, words
262 people liked it

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. "
— Mother Teresa

tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
138 people liked it

"At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in."
— Mother Teresa

tags: activism, service
108 people liked it

"I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."
— Mother Teresa

tags: love
91 people liked it

"A life not lived for others is not a life."
— Mother Teresa

80 people liked it

"God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try"
— Mother Teresa

79 people liked it

"We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, drop, good-works, ocean
70 people liked it

"If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one."
— Mother Teresa

38 people liked it

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
— Mother Teresa

tags: carpe-diem, future, past, present, time
112 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,207 people liked it

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

tags: emotions, feelings
780 people liked it

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."
— Helen Keller

tags: challenges, life
186 people liked it

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
140 people liked it

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
— Helen Keller

tags: character
130 people liked it

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
— Helen Keller

77 people liked it

"The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision."
— Helen Keller

44 people liked it

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar"
— Helen Keller

35 people liked it

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
— Helen Keller

31 people liked it

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. "
— Helen Keller

tags: faith, inspirational, wisdom
25 people liked it

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
— Helen Keller

18 people liked it

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
— Helen Keller

12 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,403 people liked it

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