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#1

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119820 likes

#2

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

5277 likes

#3

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

2300 likes

#4

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

9788 likes

#5

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

2006 likes

#6

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

1820 likes

#7

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

1697 likes

#8

“I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

2247 likes

#9

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
― Mae West

tags: chivalry, men, protection, relationships, women

3833 likes

#10

“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
― Mae West

tags: goodness, sexuality, virtue

2481 likes

#11

“Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”
― Mae West

tags: funny

1093 likes

#12

“Sex is an emotion in motion.”
― Mae West

1240 likes

#13

“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
― Mae West

tags: inspirational, religious

1133 likes

#14

“Look your best - who said love is blind? ”
― Mae West

485 likes

#15

“Love thy neighbor -- and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.”
― Mae West

tags: innuendo

531 likes

#16

“A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.”
― Mae West

465 likes

#17

“Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, marriage

361 likes

#18

“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”
― Mae West

tags: innuendo, inspirational, naughty, self-esteem

332 likes

#19

“A man’s kiss is his signature.”
― Mae West

184 likes

#21

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

2204 likes

#22

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

1507 likes

#23

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

5629 likes

#24

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: inspirational

2470 likes

#25

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6707 likes

#26

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen

4859 likes

#27

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

1604 likes

#28

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

5561 likes

#29

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

1608 likes

#30

“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: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

166065 likes

#31

“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

129537 likes

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