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"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love
2,583 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
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"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
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"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
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"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
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"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
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
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"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
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"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
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
— Albert Einstein

tags: mistakes
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
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"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
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"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
— Thomas Stephen Szasz

tags: humor, inspirational
1,571 people liked it

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational
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"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
— George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: death, love, movies
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"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, satan
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

tags: life
1,227 people liked it

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

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,149 people liked it

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
— Paulo Coelho

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

tags: coincidence, god, religion
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
949 people liked it

"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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"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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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
515 people liked it

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: wisdom
340 people liked it

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
— Michael Levine

tags: wisdom
246 people liked it

"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: faith, inspirational
1,376 people liked it

"Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

tags: books, brown, dan, religion, science
193 people liked it

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer
182 people liked it

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: fiction, humor, novelist, science
170 people liked it

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
— Carl Sagan

tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science
148 people liked it

"Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice."
— Michael Crichton (State of Fear)

tags: fiction, science
126 people liked it

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
— Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding
118 people liked it

"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
— Bill Watterson

tags: humor, jerks, science
113 people liked it

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
— Albert Einstein

tags: facts, humor, science
106 people liked it

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions."
— Claude Lévi-Strauss

tags: questions, science
80 people liked it

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: science, wonder
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
— Stephen W. Hawking

tags: inspirational, science
57 people liked it

"Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
— Stephen W. Hawking

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"The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."
— Stephen W. Hawking

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"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: wisdom
244 people liked it

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom
161 people liked it

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade ?"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: talent, wisdom, work
111 people liked it

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