Natalie's favorite quotes

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
— Mark Twain (The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It)

tags: travel

415 people liked it

"I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb."
— Herman Melville

15 people liked it

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

tags: good, writing

1,937 people liked it

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational, life, work

228 people liked it

"It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart."
— William Faulkner

47 people liked it

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
— Joseph Campbell

49 people liked it

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
— Edith Wharton

59 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

3,866 people liked it

"For this is the journey that men make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find."
— James A. Michener

6 people liked it

"I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it."
— Mark Twain (Roughing It)

2 people liked it

"Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss!"
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

tags: tm, transcendental-meditation

2 people liked it

"I am a writer and I want to write."
— Jane Bowles

2 people liked it

"When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life."
— Marguerite Duras

4 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish

11,731 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom

10,614 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

9,640 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

8,219 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life

9,749 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

6,317 people liked it

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