Erik's quotes

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,682 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
15,631 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
14,290 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,156 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,182 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,026 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,588 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
7,842 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,659 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity
6,372 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,192 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
6,020 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
5,956 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,912 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,565 people liked it

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

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,255 people liked it

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: future, life, past
362 people liked it

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it by not dying."
— Woody Allen

tags: life
210 people liked it

"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."
— Orson Welles

tags: life
38 people liked it

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
946 people liked it

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress
476 people liked it

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
— Malcolm X (By Any Means Necessary)

tags: philosophy, politics
423 people liked it

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
— Richard Dawkins

tags: atheism, philosophy
395 people liked it

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion
369 people liked it

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. "
— William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics
211 people liked it

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run "
— George Herman Ruth

tags: baseball, philosophy, sports
108 people liked it

"Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming."
— J.B.S. Haldane (Possible Worlds: And Other Papers)

tags: philosophy, science
17 people liked it

"I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit."
— Mel Brooks

tags: bullshit, humor, profanity, shit, vulgarity
76 people liked it

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

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,148 people liked it

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: truth
888 people liked it

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth
798 people liked it

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

tags: truth
269 people liked it

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth
93 people liked it

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: evil, violence
122 people liked it

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
— George Carlin

tags: evil
145 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,662 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
1,143 people liked it

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

120 people liked it

"The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers."
— William Shakespeare

113 people liked it

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear."
— Meg Cabot

tags: courage, fear, inspirational
144 people liked it

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

tags: courage
2,193 people liked it

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
1,772 people liked it

"You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."
— L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

tags: courage
26 people liked it

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: failure, persistence, success
145 people liked it

"Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: determination, perseverence
71 people liked it

"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: military
54 people liked it

"The price of greatness is responsibility. "
— Winston S. Churchill

46 people liked it

"We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: united-states
46 people liked it

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: fools, humility
32 people liked it

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