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"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
— Mother Teresa

tags: action, beautiful, gift, kindness, love, smile, smiling
227 people liked it

"Peace begins with a smile.."
— Mother Teresa

tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
1,528 people liked it

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
601 people liked it

"In my dreams, I never have an age."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: age, dreams
66 people liked it

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: age
67 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
434 people liked it

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
— Mother Teresa

tags: echoes, endless, kind-words, kindness, love, words
277 people liked it

"Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)"
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: amy, hurt, mean, meanness
11 people liked it

"Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened."
— Laurence Moore

tags: baffled, ethnic-group, how-it-happened, lds, mormon, mormonism, religion, religious, self-invention, singular
3 people liked it

"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

tags: different-selves, interesting, peronality, self-knowledge
39 people liked it

"I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)"
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: beginning, beginnings, end, fresh-start, new-leaf, start-over, try-again
16 people liked it

"Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. (Amy March to Teddy Lawrence)"
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: amy-march, gifts, good-gifts, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, ruin, spoil, spoil-you, teddy-lawrence, throw-away, unrequited, unrequited-love, want, waste-of-life, wicked, wickedness
10 people liked it

"Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it."
— Noam Chomsky

tags: participate, responsibility, stop-terrorism, terror, terrorism
21 people liked it

"That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met."
— Noam Chomsky

tags: anarchism, anarchy, authority, politics
13 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
18,630 people liked it

"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom."
— Noam Chomsky

tags: authority, challenge, dismantle, domination, freedom, heirarchy, human-freedom, illegitimate-power, justification
22 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
15,069 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,765 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,107 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
6,335 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,917 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
7,953 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
7,044 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
3,088 people liked it

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
— Albert Einstein

tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
711 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, madness, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, quo, rebels, status, think, troublemakers
7,172 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,286 people liked it

"A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”"
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: good-leader, leader, leaders, people
21 people liked it

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
— Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
94 people liked it

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."
— Noam Chomsky

tags: acceptable-opinion, control, debate, limit, lively-debate, obedience, obedient, opinion, passive, passivity
22 people liked it

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
— Noam Chomsky

tags: consume, consumerism, decisions, helpless, popular-culture, propaganda, ratify, role, roles
13 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
11,112 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,577 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,614 people liked it

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
4,320 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
3,673 people liked it

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

tags: essential, happiness, love
3,147 people liked it

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
3,257 people liked it

"We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, drop, good-works, ocean
71 people liked it

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe
420 people liked it

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god, joy
240 people liked it

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

tags: believe, glittering-eyes, hidden, magic, secrets, unlikely-places, watch, world
1,271 people liked it

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."
— Laozi

tags: be-yourself, white
31 people liked it

"Where's your will to be weird? "
— Jim Morrison

tags: individuality, weirdness, wierd, will
72 people liked it

"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: conformity, individuality, self-love, self-respect
67 people liked it

"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else. "
— Judy Garland

tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality
98 people liked it

"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."
— Margaret Mead

tags: children, delightful, individuality, loathsome, people, stereotypes
29 people liked it

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: be-yourself, individuality, love
76 people liked it

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. "
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: bad-memory, forgiveness, happiness, memory
94 people liked it

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
— Rita Mae Brown (Alma Mater)

tags: bad-judgement, experience, good-judgement, judgment, mistakes
87 people liked it

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