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#1

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

128885 likes

#2

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

176978 likes

#3

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life

3132 likes

#4

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

1024 likes

#5

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: inspirational, science

3952 likes

#6

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7576 likes

#7

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

tags: funny

6902 likes

#8

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

1992 likes

#9

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

tags: feminism, qotd

3080 likes

#10

“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

tags: extraordinary, life, music

127 likes

#11

“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.”
― Rebecca West

43 likes

#12

“Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone — or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the world as-is, which is more than can be said for the vast populace.”
― Rebecca McKinsey, Sydney West

33 likes

#13

“Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”
― Shirley Hazzard

774 likes

#14

“Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go”
― Lydia Maria Francis Child

701 likes

#15

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23766 likes

#16

“The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat...”
― Edward Lear

648 likes

#17

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

2328 likes

#18

“I have no use for people who exhibit manners.”
― Amy Vanderbilt

662 likes

#19

“May the odds be ever in your favor!”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: benediction

3143 likes

#20

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

1406 likes

#21

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

3623 likes

#22

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

2472 likes

#23

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

2285 likes

#24

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

3754 likes

#25

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
― Derek Walcott

tags: poetry

1657 likes

#26

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: wonder

2207 likes

#27

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

2544 likes

#28

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

tags: fate

1600 likes

#29

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

2308 likes

#30

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

3745 likes

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