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"Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace."
— Michio Kaku

9 people liked it

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: dreaming, dreams, perception
347 people liked it

"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: poetry
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"Long, long journey through the darkness
Long, long way to go
But what are miles across the ocean
To the heart that's coming home?"
— Enya

tags: inspirational
4 people liked it

"Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;
In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,
And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam."
— Thomas Moore

tags: ireland, sorrow
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"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
— Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein)

tags: art, philosophy, science
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
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"Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation"
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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"Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs."
— Frank Harte

tags: ireland, songwriting
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"The only devils here are the devils that are in our hearts."
— Ben Kingsley (as Mahatma Ghandi)

tags: ghandi, inspirational
7 people liked it

"All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth
Befalls the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life,
He is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web,
He does to himself."
— Chief Seattle

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"Joys come from simple and natural things; mist over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy."
— Sigurd F. Olson

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"Irish poets, learn your trade,
sing whatever is well made,
scorn the sort now growing up
all out of shape from toe to top."
— William Butler Yeats

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"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
— Edmund Burke

tags: ancestors, family
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"I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world."
— Seamus Heaney

tags: poetry
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: experience, life
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"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. "
— John F. Kennedy

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"It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice."
— Liam O'Flaherty

tags: art, artists, creativity
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"Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living."
— Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter
4 people liked it

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
— Jonathan Swift

tags: imagination
22 people liked it

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: happiness, inspirational, life
340 people liked it

"Nature never did betray, The heart that loved her."
— William Wordsworth

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"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious."
— Edna O'Brien

tags: character, irish
10 people liked it

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
— Confucius

tags: success
175 people liked it

"Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire."
— William Butler Yeats

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"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational
213 people liked it

"When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered."
— John O'Donohue

tags: ancestors, language, people
3 people liked it

"Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment."
— Chögyam Trungpa

tags: ego, enlightenment
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"Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: delusion, greed, hate
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"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
— Chinese proverb

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"Fools, their wisdom weak,
are their own enemies
as they go through life,
doing evil
that bears
bitter fruit."
— Dhammapada, 66

tags: wisdom
2 people liked it

"Those whose hearts are drawn toward compassion
Will never be drawn into the dark and woeful world.
Evil deeds dreaded by the soul will not afflict
The compassionate who foster and protect all life."
— Tirukkural 25: 243-244

tags: compassion
1 person liked it

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;"
— Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11

tags: politics, religion
2 people liked it

"We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected."
— President Grover Cleveland

tags: liberty
1 person liked it

"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

tags: hope, inspirational, love
387 people liked it

"Myth is what we call other people's religion."
— Joseph Campbell

tags: myth, religion
7 people liked it

"In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God."
— Stephen, "Braveheart"

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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
9,323 people liked it

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: friendship, love
1,765 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
1,982 people liked it

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
— Helen Keller

tags: friendship
1,087 people liked it

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul
637 people liked it

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
— John Muir

tags: interconnectedness
1 person liked it

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: inspirational
246 people liked it

"A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer’s need. "
— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

tags: virtue
1 person liked it

"Amor saca amor."
— Teresa of Ávila

tags: love
2 people liked it

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"Loss of discrimination is the greatest source of danger. "
— Sanskrit proverb

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"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: introspection
4 people liked it

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