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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: author, book, humorist, poet, wit
518 people liked it

"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books
1,405 people liked it

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
— Thomas Jefferson

193 people liked it

"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: principle, style
116 people liked it

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
— Thomas Jefferson

164 people liked it

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, destruction, federal, financial, loans, money, philosophy, political, politics, power, science, society, violence, war
134 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
3,134 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,327 people liked it

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

tags: emotions, feelings
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
145 people liked it

"The highest result of education is tolerance"
— Helen Keller

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"For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song."
— Helen Keller

44 people liked it

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
— Helen Keller

43 people liked it

"Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
— Helen Keller

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"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
— Helen Keller (The Story of My Life)

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"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill."
— Helen Keller

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"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world"
— Helen Keller

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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."
— Edward Everett Hale

tags: making-a-difference
79 people liked it

"The best way out is always through"
— Helen Keller

21 people liked it

"Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire."
— Joseph Smith Jr.

tags: god, mormonism, religion
52 people liked it

""For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19"
— Joseph Smith Jr. (The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ)

tags: inspirational
28 people liked it

""And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29"
— Joseph Smith Jr.

29 people liked it

"The most important prophet in any age for the people of that age is the living prophet."
— Joseph Smith

tags: enlightening
18 people liked it

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
— Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

tags: life
116 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
880 people liked it

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
643 people liked it

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
487 people liked it

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

398 people liked it

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
369 people liked it

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
350 people liked it

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
274 people liked it

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion
136 people liked it

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: humanity, mistakes, strength, wisdom
115 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
114 people liked it

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

tags: action, difference, significance
103 people liked it

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering
103 people liked it

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: enemies, fighting, love, peace, trial, victory
72 people liked it

"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: love
61 people liked it

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: environment, forests, humanity, trees, wilderness
55 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
50 people liked it

"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. "
— Mahatma Gandhi

45 people liked it

"It is easier to build a boy, then to mend a man."
— Mahatma Gandhi

22 people liked it

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