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"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
105 people liked it

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dreams
97 people liked it

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: motivational, work
71 people liked it

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: peace
67 people liked it

"Nothing is more sacred than the integrity of your own mind."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

50 people liked it

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self Reliance)

49 people liked it

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

50 people liked it

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
— Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
126 people liked it

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: aim-high, good, life, live, moral, morality
160 people liked it

"...be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: expression, yourself
58 people liked it

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this."
— Henry David Thoreau

36 people liked it

"One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something."
— Henry David Thoreau

31 people liked it

"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up."
— James Baldwin

tags: art, baldwin, expression, james, nausea, survival, vomit
13 people liked it

"I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."
— Mark Rothko

tags: art, color, expression
2 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
960 people liked it

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
— Kurt Vonnegut

116 people liked it

"Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason."
— W.H. Auden

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"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: consistency
52 people liked it

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: self-improvement
34 people liked it

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: rabp, solitude
30 people liked it

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: experience
31 people liked it

"All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: life
22 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,151 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
10,269 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,893 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,756 people liked it

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

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,250 people liked it

"This too shall pass..."
— Abraham Lincoln

331 people liked it

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

tags: courage
2,192 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,623 people liked it

"What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

57 people liked it

"The joke is, we all have the same punchline."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

30 people liked it

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are...Or we can decide for ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Asfixia / Choke)

tags: identity
33 people liked it

"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't."
— Chuck Palahniuk

23 people liked it

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
— André Gide

tags: truth
98 people liked it

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
— André Gide

tags: integrity
18 people liked it

"Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again."
— André Gide

6 people liked it

"One dosen't discover new lands without consenting to loose sight of the shore for a very long time."
— André Gide

5 people liked it

"Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

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— André Gide

tags: writing
5 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
1,037 people liked it

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: beauty, charity, inspirational, kindness
989 people liked it

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

516 people liked it

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
476 people liked it

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
— Jack Kerouac

171 people liked it

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
— Jack Kerouac

tags: failure, passion
137 people liked it

"Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone."
— Jack Kerouac (Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956)

44 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
402 people liked it

"I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities."
— Ayn Rand

tags: individuality
37 people liked it

"Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level"
— Gustave Flaubert (November)

tags: identity, individuality, mediocrity, soul
12 people liked it

"It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia."
— Eric Hoffer

tags: conformity, individuality
4 people liked it

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