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#1

“If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.”
― Susanna Kaysen

tags: dream

117 likes

#2

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

5323 likes

#3

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: life, travel

3761 likes

#4

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: apothegm, beauty, truth

2289 likes

#5

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: time

2230 likes

#6

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
― Lao Tzu

1408 likes

#7

“The best fighter is never angry.”
― Lao Tzu

2124 likes

#8

“At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: profound, self-awareness, self-discovery

1305 likes

#9

“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.”
― Lao Tzu

975 likes

#10

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: be-yourself, white

492 likes

#11

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
― Lao Tzu

497 likes

#12

“To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
We did it ourselves!”
― Lao Tzu

tags: lead

354 likes

#13

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment”
― Lao Tzu

730 likes

#14

“To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
― Lao Tse

tags: knowledge-wisdom

659 likes

#15

“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: frugality, humility, leadership

604 likes

#16

“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: knowledge

458 likes

#17

“She does not show herself, and therefore is apparent. She does not affirm herself, and therefore is acknowledged. She does not boast and therefore has merit. She does not strive and therefore is successful. It is exactly because she does not contend, that nobody can contend with her.”
― Lao Tzu

309 likes

#18

“There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.”
― Lao Tzu

272 likes

#19

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
― Lao Tzu

232 likes

#20

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

42434 likes

#21

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

tags: attributed-no-source

11859 likes

#22

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

tags: friendship

5455 likes

#23

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

9015 likes

#24

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship

5204 likes

#25

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

1717 likes

#26

“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: fight, friends, friendship, kill, loyalty, strength

3012 likes

#27

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
― Richard Bach

tags: friendship, understanding

1129 likes

#28

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
― John Churton Collins

tags: friendship

965 likes

#29

“A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.”
― Louisa May Alcott

922 likes

#30

“No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: friendship, love

1150 likes

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