Popular Quotes

Popular Quotes
Dr. Seuss
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss
tags: attributed-no-source, cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, misattributed-dr-seuss, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling 169346 likes Like
Marilyn Monroe
“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, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst 136139 likes Like
Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde 125346 likes Like
Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe 112956 likes Like
Bernard M. Baruch
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch
tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, those-who-matter 108557 likes Like
William W. Purkey
“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 105940 likes Like
Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa
tags: books, humor 105363 likes Like
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul 103510 likes Like
Dr. Seuss
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss
tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep 102264 likes Like
Mae West
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
tags: humor, life 94471 likes Like
Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish 92639 likes Like
Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
tags: life 87368 likes Like
J.K. Rowling
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
80652 likes Like
Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
tags: friendship 77218 likes Like
Albert Camus
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus
tags: friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus 76022 likes Like
Eleanor Roosevelt
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom 74394 likes Like
Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
tags: lies, lying, memory, truth 73272 likes Like
Elbert Hubbard
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard
tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love 70365 likes Like
Maya Angelou
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
67182 likes Like
Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy 66423 likes Like
Mahatma Gandhi
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning 64297 likes Like
Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: life 62846 likes Like
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace 62811 likes Like
Oscar Wilde
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
tags: intelligence, self-deprecation 61537 likes Like
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
tags: inspirational, music, philosophy 58745 likes Like
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality 57568 likes Like
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. 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.”
― Rob Siltanen
tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, madness, misattributed-apple, misattributed-steve-jobs, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, rebels, status-quo, think-different, troublemakers 57384 likes Like
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous
tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein 55997 likes Like
Marilyn Monroe
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe
tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe 54953 likes Like
“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.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail 53778 likes Like
Bob Marley
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”
― Bob Marley
tags: love 49926 likes Like
André Gide
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
tags: life, love 49620 likes Like
J.R.R. Tolkien
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither 45787 likes Like
Marilyn Monroe
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe
tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational 45284 likes Like
Albert Einstein
“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: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles 43032 likes Like
Jane Austen
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor 42959 likes Like
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
tags: abilities, choices 42677 likes Like
John Green
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
tags: love 41589 likes Like
J.K. Rowling
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
tags: dreams, life 41168 likes Like
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer
tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, remaining-silent, wisdom 41168 likes Like
Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life 40220 likes Like
Allen Saunders
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders
tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans 39936 likes Like
Mark Twain
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain
tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom 39277 likes Like
William Shakespeare
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
tags: wisdom 39236 likes Like
Bil Keane
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bil Keane
tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed 38370 likes Like
Oscar Wilde
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism 37816 likes Like
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt 37597 likes Like
“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
― Gordon A. Eadie
tags: belief, integrity, misattributed-to-malcolm-x, misattributed-to-rosa-parks 36312 likes Like
Thomas A. Edison
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased 36155 likes Like
Neil Gaiman
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton 36025 likes Like
Mark Twain
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain
tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy 35879 likes Like
Elie Wiesel
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel
tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy 35351 likes Like
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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 35143 likes Like
Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor 34032 likes Like
Albert Einstein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: 1929, imagination, inspirational, viereck-interview 33912 likes Like
Douglas Adams
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
tags: life, navigation 33831 likes Like
J.K. Rowling
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
tags: mischief 33550 likes Like
Dr. Seuss
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss
tags: fantasy 32945 likes Like
Steve Martin
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin
tags: humor, obvious, simile 32917 likes
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
tags: love, poetry 32907 likes Like
Mark Twain
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain
tags: humor, procrastination 32108 likes Like
Neil Gaiman
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
tags: love 31719 likes Like
William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong 31576 likes Like
“The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
tags: forgiveness, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world 31143 likes Like
Dr. Seuss
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
tags: inspirational 31141 likes Like
Friedrich Nietzsche
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: paraphrased, strength 31120 likes Like
Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa
tags: attributed-no-source 29826 likes Like
Sarah Dessen
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
tags: love 29529 likes Like
Marilyn Monroe
“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe
tags: attributed-no-source, friends, heartbreak, inspirational, life, love, sisters 29319 likes Like
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: happiness 29248 likes Like
Lao Tzu
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed 28983 likes Like
George Eliot
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
tags: inspirational 28686 likes Like
John Green
“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
28621 likes Like
Douglas Adams
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing 28605 likes Like
George R.R. Martin
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books 28604 likes Like
J.K. Rowling
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
tags: courage, friends 27717 likes Like
Garrison Keillor
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor
tags: humor, religion 27441 likes Like
Albert Einstein
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand 27137 likes Like
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: lies, lying, trust 27005 likes Like
Robert A. Heinlein
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
tags: cats, humor, women 26512 likes Like
Robert A. Heinlein
“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 26409 likes Like
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
tags: books, library 26125 likes Like
Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss
tags: attributed-no-source, life 25635 likes Like
Suzanne Collins
“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games 25577 likes Like
Maya Angelou
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing 25460 likes Like
We read to know we're not alone.
“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands
tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading 25384 likes Like
Pablo Picasso
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso
tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life 25304 likes Like
Anaïs Nin
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
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Bob Marley
“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
― Bob Marley
tags: love 25194 like
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz
tags: chocolate, food, humor 24781 likes Like
Jim Henson
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson
tags: humor 24603 likes Like
John Green
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
tags: books, power-of-words, reading 24123 likes Like
Dr. Seuss
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
tags: comedy, life, yourself 23969 likes Like
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
tags: books, reading 23841 likes Like
Woody Allen
“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen
tags: death, fear, humor, life 23194 likes Like
“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry
tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins 23073 likes Like
J.K. Rowling
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling
22912 likes Like
Albert Einstein
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales 22889 likes Like
Cassandra Clare
“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
tags: city-of-bones, jace 22879 likes Like
Haruki Murakami
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
tags: books, thought 22773 likes Like
Nicholas Sparks
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
tags: love 22692 likes Like
Albert Einstein
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: attributed-no-source, imagination 22533 likes Like
C.S. Lewis
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea 22517 likes Like
J.K. Rowling
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
tags: dumbledore 22435 likes Like
John Green
“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
tags: doomed, inevitable, love, oblivion, pleasure, simple 22424 likes Like
Bob Marley
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley
tags: music 22252 likes Like
Dr. Seuss
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
tags: learning, reading, seuss 22182 likes Like
John Green
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
tags: satisfaction, self-determination 22125 likes Like
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne 22026 likes Like
J.K. Rowling
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
tags: death, inspirational 21902 likes Like
Bob Marley
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
tags: friendship 21788 likes Like
Markus Zusak
“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
tags: beauty, life 21670 likes Like
Mother Teresa
“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 21661 likes Like
John Green
“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green
tags: humor, nerdfighters 21636 likes Like
Abraham Lincoln
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln
tags: attributed-no-source, happiness 21439 likes Like
William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
tags: love 21366 likes Like
Oscar Wilde
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: books, reading 21309 likes Like
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
tags: inspirational 21179 likes Like
Walter M. Miller Jr.
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis 21144 likes
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
tags: love, simile 21113 likes Like
George Bernard Shaw
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
tags: inspirational, life, yourself 21057 likes Like
Alexandre Dumas fils
“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils
tags: misattributed-to-einstein 20852 likes Like
Shel Silverstein
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein
tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t 20613 likes Like
Groucho Marx
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx
tags: books, humor, reading, television 20484 likes Like
Virginia Woolf
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf
tags: women 20421 likes Like
Marilyn Monroe
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe
tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love 20388 likes Like
Helen Keller
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller
tags: inspirational 20335 likes Like
Elizabeth Gilbert
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
tags: love 20228 likes Like
Robert Fulghum
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love
tags: love, weirdness 20059 likes Like
Jodi Picoult
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
tags: imperfect, love 20048 likes Like
Ernest Hemingway
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway
tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes 19901 likes Like
John Green
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
tags: infinity, john-green, life, tfios, the-fault-in-our-stars 19668 likes Like
Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: life, simile 19569 likes Like
Stephenie Meyer
“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
tags: drug, romance, simile 19473 likes Like
Douglas Adams
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
tags: humor, scifi 19435 likes Like
J.K. Rowling
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
tags: dumbledore 19324 likes Like
Anaïs Nin
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anaïs Nin
tags: death, love 19320 likes Like
Marilyn Monroe
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe
tags: attributed-no-source, love 19294 likes Like
Marilyn Monroe
“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe
tags: attributed-no-source 19193 likes Like
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time 19054 likes Like
Bob Marley
“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley
tags: judge, life, live, perfection 19022 likes Like
Jane Austen
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
tags: friendship, love 19019 likes Like
Winston S. Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill
tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success 19001 likes Like
Do one thing every day that scares you.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
tags: attributed, fear, inspiration 18980 likes Like
Stephen Chbosky
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower 18905 likes Like
A.A. Milne
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance 18880 likes Like
Charles Bukowski
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: humor 18856 likes Like
Terry Pratchett
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
tags: humor, open-mind, thinking 18810 likes Like
Alfred Tennyson
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson
tags: friendship, love 18674 likes