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"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
— Ray Bradbury

207 people liked it

"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics
1,043 people liked it

"He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale."
— Nick Hornby (A Long Way Down)

tags: competency
16 people liked it

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

tags: books
346 people liked it

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
— Franz Kafka

tags: beauty, youth
90 people liked it

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need."
— Mick Jagger

tags: desire, need
18 people liked it

"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
— Tom Waits

27 people liked it

"As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. "
— Leonard Cohen (The Favorite Game)

27 people liked it

"There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
— Leonard Cohen

127 people liked it

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
— Leonard Cohen

38 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
19,327 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
12,205 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
11,676 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
8,326 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,326 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,583 people liked it

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