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"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work"
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: opportunity, work
122 people liked it

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

tags: humor, obvious
5,675 people liked it

"My religion is kindness"
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational
45 people liked it

""No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how." "
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

tags: kissing
109 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson

tags: humor
5,934 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,151 people liked it

"I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots."
— Johnny Depp

tags: congress, french, fries, government
29 people liked it

""Breathe in, breathe out, move on...""
— Jimmy Buffett

16 people liked it

"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere."
— Anne Lamott (Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

25 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
19,001 people liked it

"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, healing, inspirational, justice, sacrifice
20 people liked it

"A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen

tags: patience
27 people liked it

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: humor, insanity
2,616 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
7,952 people liked it

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: inspirational
99 people liked it

"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way."
— Steve Martin (Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life)

tags: humor
181 people liked it

"If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them."
— Johnny Depp

78 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing
966 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,988 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
2,288 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,412 people liked it

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

tags: be, inspirational, yourself
1,885 people liked it

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
395 people liked it

"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?"
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: humor, philosophy
504 people liked it

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: marilyn, monroe
290 people liked it

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it very hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

8 people liked it

"Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead."
— Thomas Paine

42 people liked it

"Life is painful, suffering is optional."
— Sylvia Boorstein

6 people liked it

"“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.”"
— Sabrina Ward Harrison (Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself)

14 people liked it

"After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir."
— Wallace Stevens (The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play)

tags: poetry
4 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,806 people liked it

"Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar."
— Margaret Mitchell

33 people liked it

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."
— Marilyn Monroe

357 people liked it

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: inspirational
113 people liked it

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: inspirational, love
370 people liked it

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

1,154 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,931 people liked it

"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. "
— George Carlin

tags: humor, religion
43 people liked it

"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: chocolate, humor
85 people liked it

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already."
— Dave Barry

tags: cake, chocolate, humor, peace
157 people liked it

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

tags: chocolate, friendship
2,115 people liked it

"You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way. "
— Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)

2 people liked it

"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."
— Anne Lamott

57 people liked it

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
— Marcel Proust

69 people liked it

"Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I"
— Dr. Seuss

64 people liked it

"When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

18 people liked it

"Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world."
— Thich Nhat Hanh

13 people liked it

"When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates."
— Thich Nhat Hanh (Anger)

11 people liked it

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
667 people liked it

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
— Plutarch

tags: inspirational
11 people liked it

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