Lana's favorite quotes

"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

10,257 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom

6,156 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

6,013 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy

5,902 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational

5,543 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

7,321 people liked it

"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

405 people liked it

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
— Mae West

tags: humor, temptation

1,062 people liked it

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure."
— Mae West

tags: humor, life

171 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

4,861 people liked it

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya

4,802 people liked it

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

tags: life

4,137 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness

2,587 people liked it

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

tags: inspirational

2,400 people liked it

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

1,146 people liked it

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

269 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love

2,150 people liked it

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."
— Ruby Dee

tags: inspirational

4 people liked it

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

521 people liked it

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom

517 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

429 people liked it

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
— Guillaume Apollinaire

tags: happiness, life

145 people liked it

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational

1,360 people liked it

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
— Maya Angelou

tags: people

838 people liked it

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational

507 people liked it

"Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
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— Maya Angelou

49 people liked it

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