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

tags: life
10,947 people liked it

"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
15,669 people liked it

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

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,337 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
10,312 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,460 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,844 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
1,798 people liked it

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be, inspirational, yourself
1,516 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
1,381 people liked it

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"
— John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)

tags: life, words
1,209 people liked it

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

tags: beauty, life
949 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
854 people liked it

"I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself."
— Shannon Hale

tags: laughing
612 people liked it

"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!"
— Bob Marley

tags: judge, life, live, perfection
553 people liked it

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
— Albert Einstein

tags: music
549 people liked it

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

519 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

434 people liked it

"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

427 people liked it

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep
371 people liked it

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: happiness, inspirational, life
337 people liked it

"Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
340 people liked it

""My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style" "
— Maya Angelou

256 people liked it

"Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."
— Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hop, insperration, knolage, wisdom
193 people liked it

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, lessons, life, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
185 people liked it

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

tags: love
106 people liked it

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
149 people liked it

"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth."
— Janet Evanovich

tags: birthday, cake, life, novels, romance
145 people liked it

"I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. "
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

202 people liked it

"Music gives soul to the universe
wings to the mind
flight to the imagination
and life to everything"
— Plato

124 people liked it

"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."
— Jeffrey Eugenides

tags: life
106 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
105 people liked it

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: inspirational
105 people liked it

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."
— Maya Angelou

98 people liked it

"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy."
— Max Ehrmann (Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life)

tags: happiness, inspirational, philosophical
111 people liked it

"True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a bottle)

tags: love, romance
108 people liked it

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,145 people liked it

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
2,065 people liked it

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
— Maya Angelou

tags: loneliness, music, refuge
454 people liked it

"the past is only the future with the lights on."
— Mark Hoppus ("Blink 182")

tags: music
165 people liked it

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
— Frank Zappa (Real Frank Zappa Book)

tags: music
140 people liked it

"None but ourselves can free our minds."
— Bob Marley

tags: bob, inspirational, marley, music, reggae
332 people liked it

"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens."
— Maria von Trapp

tags: music
61 people liked it

"The oldest fiddle plays the sweetest tune."
— Irish Proverb

tags: age, fiddle, music
36 people liked it

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, inspirational, live, love, music
719 people liked it

"Play it fuckin' loud!"
— Bob Dylan

tags: fuck, music, profanity, rock
314 people liked it

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. "
— John Erskine

tags: inspirational, music
6 people liked it

"Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.
"
— Wynton Marsalis

tags: jazz, music
5 people liked it

"Can't you see that it's just raining?
There ain't no need to go outside."
— Jack Johnson

tags: music, rain
5 people liked it

"The daydreamer's nightmare is to never even try"
— 10 Years

tags: dreams, lyrics, music
25 people liked it

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: music
4 people liked it

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