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"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
17,939 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
1,057 people liked it

"I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. "
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have A Dream)

tags: inspirational, race-relations
139 people liked it

"All evil is good become cancerous."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: evil, life
11 people liked it

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"
— John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
341 people liked it

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you."
— William Arthur Ward

36 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,998 people liked it

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion
347 people liked it

"Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane"
— Emily Dickinson

59 people liked it

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

1,091 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,815 people liked it

"Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST."
— Frank Zappa

tags: music
189 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
6,765 people liked it

"People should fall in love with their eyes closed."
— Andy Warhol

tags: love
59 people liked it

"A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey."
— Banksy

tags: humor
6 people liked it

"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: love
8 people liked it

"Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

16 people liked it

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
— Jack Kerouac

336 people liked it

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
171 people liked it

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, wit
1,415 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
7,602 people liked it

"How pleasant to know Mr Lear!" / Who has written such volumes of stuff! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer / But a few think him pleasant enough."
— Edward Lear

3 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
9,301 people liked it

" If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."
— Jack Handey

tags: antonian, san
70 people liked it

"Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it."
— Edgar Degas

tags: art
2 people liked it

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"
— Bob Dylan (Lyrics:1962-2001)

138 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
400 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
836 people liked it

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: evil, violence
122 people liked it

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. "
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, difference, significance
101 people liked it

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: confidence, strength
98 people liked it

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: equality, journalism, paparazzi, photographers, photography, reporters
41 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
78 people liked it

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: enemies, friends, friendship, religion
106 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
85 people liked it

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, fruit, goodness
46 people liked it

"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."
— Mahatma Gandhi

27 people liked it

"There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inspirational
16 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,400 people liked it

""Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" - Auntie Mame"
— Patrick Dennis

tags: auntie, mame
23 people liked it

"There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once."
— Sogyal Rinpoche

tags: death
3 people liked it

"There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die."
— W.H. Auden

10 people liked it

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
955 people liked it

"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
5,475 people liked it

"There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
— Tennessee Williams

23 people liked it

"What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real. "
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

70 people liked it

"This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else."
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

34 people liked it

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
— James Joyce

16 people liked it

"Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned."
— James Joyce

tags: lyrical, silence
19 people liked it

"Dip him in the river who loves water."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

tags: love, water
4 people liked it

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