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"Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake)

167 people liked it

"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning."
— Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions)

794 people liked it

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, fiction, literature
356 people liked it

"'Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief'"
— Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination)

tags: faith, philosophy
12 people liked it

"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
2,839 people liked it

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
426 people liked it

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
559 people liked it

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
490 people liked it

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: fighting, hurt, inner, peace, permission, strength, trial
221 people liked it

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: faith, humanity, ocean
89 people liked it

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering
103 people liked it

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: day, death, night, rebirth, reincarnation, sleep
80 people liked it

"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
882 people liked it

"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion, truth
68 people liked it

"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion
544 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,235 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational
5,201 people liked it

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
3,888 people liked it

"All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light from a single candle."
— Francis Of Assisi (The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi)

tags: inspirational
615 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
797 people liked it

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: death, love, movies
1,243 people liked it

"After a battle lasting many ages,
The Devil won,
And said to God
(who had been his Maker):
'Lord,
We are about to witness the unmaking of Creation
By my hand.
I would not wish you
to think me cruel,
So I beg you, take three things
From this world before I destroy it.
Three things, and then the rest will be
wiped away.'

God thought for a little time.
And at last He said:
'No, there is nothing.'
The Devil was surprised.
'Not even you, Lord?' he said.
And God said:
'No. Not even me.'"
— Clive Barker (Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War)

tags: death, love
65 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
6,444 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,453 people liked it

"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy."
— Max Ehrmann (Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life)

tags: happiness, inspirational, philosophical
123 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,374 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,908 people liked it

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

547 people liked it

""Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.""
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

22 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
518 people liked it

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time"
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

163 people liked it

"Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: crisis, life
86 people liked it

"Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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"If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

10 people liked it

"And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe."
— Anton Checkov (The Bet)

tags: books, despair, immortality, wisdom
2 people liked it

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: beauty, earth, heaven, life, reason, truth, understand, wisdom
11 people liked it

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
— H.G. Wells

20 people liked it

"I've measured out my life in coffee spoons."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: elliot, love, poetry, song
40 people liked it

"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, global-warming, poetry
118 people liked it

"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: observation
29 people liked it

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
— T.S. Eliot

4 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
355 people liked it

"I dwell in possibility…"
— Emily Dickinson

tags: possibility
87 people liked it

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational
91 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love
305 people liked it

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational, wrtiting
56 people liked it

"I can wade Grief --
Whole Pools of it --
I'm used to that --
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet --
And I tip -- drunken --
Let no Pebble -- smile --
'Twas the New Liquor --
That was all!"
— Emily Dickinson (Final Harvest: Poems)

15 people liked it

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

tags: inspirational
1,073 people liked it

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hate, love
709 people liked it

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

709 people liked it

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