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#1
"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
—
Shirley Maclaine
tags:
courage
9 people liked it
#2
"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."
—
Shirley Maclaine
6 people liked it
#3
"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
—
Anne Herbert
tags:
books
,
money
,
reading
102 people liked it
#4
"War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure."
—
Adrienne Rich
7 people liked it
#5
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
—
Dalai Lama XIV
tags:
happiness
,
inspirational
1,541 people liked it
#6
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
—
Eleanor Roosevelt
tags:
confidence
,
inspirational
,
wisdom
12,882 people liked it
#7
"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
—
George Bernard Shaw
tags:
books
,
children
1,224 people liked it
#8
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
—
George Bernard Shaw
tags:
art
,
life
955 people liked it
#9
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
—
George Bernard Shaw
728 people liked it
#10
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
—
George Bernard Shaw
tags:
everybody-s
,
political
,
what
,
what-s
35 people liked it
#11
"Soul meets soul on lovers lips."
—
Percy Bysshe Shelley
19 people liked it
#12
"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
—
Terry Pratchett
(
Lords and Ladies
)
tags:
cats
,
humor
,
life
880 people liked it
#13
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
—
Terry Pratchett
tags:
fantasy
,
humor
,
imagination
,
literature
,
stories
689 people liked it
#14
"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
—
Terry Pratchett
tags:
humor
,
life
286 people liked it
#15
"I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel."
—
Terry Pratchett
tags:
humour
,
inspirational
142 people liked it
#16
"There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist."
—
Terry Pratchett
135 people liked it
#17
"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."
—
Terry Pratchett
(
Hogfather
)
74 people liked it
#18
"If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story."
—
Terry Pratchett
(
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
)
27 people liked it
#19
"The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine."
—
Terry Pratchett
(
The Wee Free Men
)
8 people liked it
#20
"Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws."
—
Terry Pratchett
tags:
privileges
5 people liked it
#21
"Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean."
—
Terry Pratchett
(
Thief of Time
)
4 people liked it
#22
"This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven."
—
Terry Pratchett
(
The Wee Free Men
)
2 people liked it
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