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"Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you."
— Lois McMaster Bujold

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
2,065 people liked it

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

748 people liked it

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

234 people liked it

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
77 people liked it

"I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Shards of Honour)

27 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

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,224 people liked it

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

tags: life
10,910 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
7,843 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
2,977 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
6,778 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

"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
6,760 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
6,651 people liked it

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour
1,976 people liked it

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)

tags: deliberate, die, essentials, inspirational, live, live-deliberately, suck-the-marrow, woods
236 people liked it

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: books
149 people liked it

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
— Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience and Other Essays: Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau)

tags: life
158 people liked it

"'That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.'"
— L. Frank Baum (The Land of Oz)

tags: inspirational, random
58 people liked it

"No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it."
— Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)

5 people liked it

"There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."
— Aldo Leopold

9 people liked it

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."
— Harvey Diamond

tags: vegetarianism
43 people liked it

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. "
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

tags: chicken, vegetarianism
38 people liked it

"One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)

tags: vegetarian
14 people liked it

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: history
48 people liked it

"All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Komarr)

11 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

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

tags: activism
658 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,845 people liked it

"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
17,684 people liked it

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
— Albert Einstein

344 people liked it

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections)

tags: inspiration
478 people liked it

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
— Anna Quindlen

tags: books, children
228 people liked it

"Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things."
— Elise Boulding

tags: consumption, frugality, happiness
18 people liked it

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. "
— John Burroughs

9 people liked it

"As long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: heroes
5 people liked it

"The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours."
— David Gerrold

3 people liked it

"Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope."
— Theodore Roszak (Where the Wasteland Ends)

tags: science
11 people liked it

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
— Rabindranath Tagore (Fireflies)

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"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. "
— Jacob Bronowski (The Ascent of Man)

tags: education
31 people liked it

"When you sing, think of birds. When you dance, think of fish (Or snakes. Doesn’t matter.). When you play music, think of water, and when you act, think of god."
— Katie Waitman (The Merro Tree)

1 person liked it

"Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions."
— Sara Nelson (So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading)

tags: books, reading
25 people liked it

"The story is about being loyal to the truth as a nation, that citizens of a democracy are collectively responsible for what their troops do in war, good or bad."
— Kevin Sites (In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty-one Wars)

tags: democracry, responsibility, truth, war
2 people liked it

"If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers."
— Edward Abbey

27 people liked it

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Edward Abbey

28 people liked it

"Reproduction is more pleasurable than death."
— Herman E. Daly

tags: death, life, reproduction
9 people liked it

"Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead."
— Herman E. Daly (Steady-State Economics: The Economics of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth)

tags: population
1 person liked it

"The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide."
— Herman E. Daly

tags: consumption, international-development
1 person liked it

"While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces."
— Herman E. Daly

tags: economics
2 people liked it

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