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"There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name."
— Kate DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread)

124 people liked it

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?"
— Chris Rock

tags: comedy, everyday, funny, humor, life, observational
504 people liked it

"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
— Martin Niemöller

28 people liked it

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

17 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

435 people liked it

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
— Abraham Lincoln

231 people liked it

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
— Abraham Lincoln

211 people liked it

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
— Abraham Lincoln

370 people liked it

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
— Abraham Lincoln

34 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,373 people liked it

"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
1,618 people liked it

"Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins"
— Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson)

57 people liked it

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in."
— Morrie Schwartz

13 people liked it

"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: funny, inspirational, money
232 people liked it

"you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. "
— Rosa Parks

24 people liked it

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
— Nelson Mandela

tags: bravery, courage, fear
60 people liked it

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
— Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education
339 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,289 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
7,889 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,633 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,538 people liked it

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,227 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
10,980 people liked it

"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
9,222 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,185 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,538 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,016 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
7,379 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
6,052 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
6,196 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,911 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,289 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,525 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
5,579 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,191 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
6,699 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
1,801 people liked it

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

tags: humor, inspirational
1,573 people liked it

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

114 people liked it

""Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)"
— Randy Pausch

23 people liked it

"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
— Peter Singer

10 people liked it

"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?""
— Jeremy Bentham

tags: animal, moral, rights, vegetarian
19 people liked it

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, friends, humor, vegetarianism
510 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
39 people liked it

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. "
— Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, vegetarianism
115 people liked it

"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: ethics, suffering, vegetarianism
32 people liked it

"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."
— Paul McCartney

tags: animals, beatles, character, man, vegetarianism
62 people liked it

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: davinci, vegetarianism
29 people liked it

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital."
— Neal D. Barnard

tags: beef, vegetarianism
18 people liked it

"Yes We Can!"
— Barack Obama

tags: action, hope, positivity
217 people liked it

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