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#1

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

2380 likes

#2

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
― Sydney J. Harris

25 likes

#3

“A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.”
― Joyce Maynard, Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties

tags: loyalty

37 likes

#4

“Felix has landed safely from his jump from the stratosphere..
Never accept your limitations-because there are NO limitations Viva Felix!”
― Paulo Coelho

1 likes

#5

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

3091 likes

#6

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
― Billy Graham

tags: health

60 likes

#7

“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
― W.Somerset Maugham

tags: character, friendship

609 likes

#8

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: paraphrased

3317 likes

#9

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased

22705 likes

#10

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
― Mother Theresa

tags: charity, giving, love

1979 likes

#11

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent

8190 likes

#12

“No point crying over spilled milk”
― Chrissie Manby, Getting Over Mr. Right

2 likes

#13

“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.”
― Earl Wilson

25 likes

#14

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton

2771 likes

#15

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

2143 likes

#16

“When I shop the world gets better, the world is better; and then it's not anymore and I have to do it again.”
― rebecca bloomwood

3 likes

#18

“Make friends, make friends, never, never break friends. if you do, you'll catch a flu and that will be the end of you!”
― Chrissie Manby, Getting Over Mr. Right

2 likes

#19

“You want a man who wants to be with you above everybody. Not as a last resort.”
― Chrissie Manby, Getting Over Mr. Right

4 likes

#20

“an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.”
― Jack Johnson

32 likes

#21

“The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

tags: desire

1489 likes

#22

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14728 likes

#23

“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
― Yves Saint Laurent

tags: cosmetics, fashion, makeup, women

2225 likes

#24

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

84337 likes

#25

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year

4703 likes

#26

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
― Taylor Swift

tags: change, fresh-starts, new-beginnings, reinvention, time

2621 likes

#27

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

tags: irony, life, loneliness

6384 likes

#28

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect

13438 likes

#29

“I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria”
― Danielle Steel, Big Girl

44 likes

#30

“.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.”
― Danielle Steel, Big Girl

61 likes

#31

“Things work out the way they're meant to”
― Danielle Steel, No Greater Love

tags: danielle-steel, romance, titanic

619 likes

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