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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
17,873 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,784 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,263 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
10,953 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,334 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,457 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
9,262 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,022 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,005 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,207 people liked it

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
— Theodore Roosevelt

74 people liked it

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance
569 people liked it

"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books
1,360 people liked it

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: atheism, philosophy, religion
297 people liked it

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

401 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
372 people liked it

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: adventure, bravery, inspirational, life
178 people liked it

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: buses, friends, limos, money, wealth
123 people liked it

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: dreams, life, time
111 people liked it

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
— Confucius

tags: beauty, everything, sees
209 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
5,462 people liked it

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,196 people liked it

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

311 people liked it

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
— Jane Austen

401 people liked it

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

tags: books
836 people liked it

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
— Louisa May Alcott

169 people liked it

"I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: inspiration, wisdom
120 people liked it

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: inspirational, ship, storms
223 people liked it

"If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

18 people liked it

"A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: friendship
131 people liked it

"People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: classic
9 people liked it

"Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors."
— Louisa May Alcott

22 people liked it

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

tags: failure, inspirational, success
2,280 people liked it

"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
— Bill Cosby

tags: advise, wise
84 people liked it

"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice."
— Bill Cosby

83 people liked it

"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. "
— Bill Cosby

43 people liked it

"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."
— Bill Cosby

63 people liked it

"There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish."
— Larry King

4 people liked it

"Cause life's only happen ones, take pictures..."
— Souza

3 people liked it

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. "
— Flavia Weedn

16 people liked it

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
— Flavia Weedn

7 people liked it

"in the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. i want you all to know, i'm keeping a chart."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton

tags: bible, forgiveness, reigion
22 people liked it

"If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton

tags: fashion, hair, hairstyling, journalism, politics
32 people liked it

"It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one"
— Hillary Clinton (Civiliser la démocratie)

13 people liked it

"We are the change we have been waiting for."
— Barack Obama

tags: carpe-diem, change
177 people liked it

"Yes We Can!"
— Barack Obama

tags: action, hope, positivity
217 people liked it

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under."
— Ronald Reagan

tags: inspirational
168 people liked it

"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
— Ronald Reagan

35 people liked it

"There is no frigate like a good book to take us to lands away."
— Emily Dickinson

21 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
331 people liked it

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