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#1

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

#2

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

11481 likes

#3

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

9086 likes

#4

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

4312 likes

#5

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

tags: philosophy, wayfinding

3470 likes

#6

“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

1242 likes

#7

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12716 likes

#9

“Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

188 likes

#10

“There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends

tags: belief

124 likes

#11

“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: weather

2122 likes

#12

“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

1550 likes

#13

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: identity

1860 likes

#14

“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: human-nature

1405 likes

#15

“I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

872 likes

#16

“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: history

1591 likes

#17

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: conversation, human-nature, weekend

1024 likes

#18

“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction

tags: writing-life

795 likes

#19

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: fight-club, inspirational, tyler, tyler-durden

1964 likes

#20

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: smile

1502 likes

#21

“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: death

887 likes

#22

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

1132 likes

#23

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

307 likes

#24

“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

tags: change, fear, hurt, pain, past, run

615 likes

#25

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: poetry

6197 likes

#26

“..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

tags: human-nature, life

103 likes

#27

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

13804 likes

#28

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

2900 likes

#29

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life

2206 likes

#30

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: sex

2226 likes

#31

“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

tags: brinksmanship, crazy, crisis, insanity

1804 likes

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