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#1

“My love is my soul's imagination...
how do I love you... imagine.”
― Saul Williams

tags: slam, spoken-word, untainted-love

73 likes

#2

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
― Timothy Leary

tags: ambition, equality

5113 likes

#3

“On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

290 likes

#4

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: heart, mind

3443 likes

#5

“We had pathetically simple dreams:
to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole

63 likes

#6

“Love lasts for forever and a day.”
― Elizabeth Hitchcock

3 likes

#7

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

tags: humor, life

119047 likes

#8

“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: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93522 likes

#9

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

13997 likes

#10

“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

500 likes

#11

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

tags: awe, love

960 likes

#12

“The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.”
― Angela Carter

tags: fairytales, little-red-riding-hood, the-bloody-chamber

101 likes

#13

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational

9214 likes

#14

“The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.”
― Robert Fulghum

268 likes

#15

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

2467 likes

#16

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

21195 likes

#17

“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: humour

859 likes

#18

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: poetry, wisdom

4433 likes

#19

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
― Khalil Gibran

2823 likes

#20

“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
― Khalil Gibran

tags: wisdom

866 likes

#21

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: knowledge, wisdom

785 likes

#22

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational

11533 likes

#23

“Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

113 likes

#24

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: humor, libraries, originality

622 likes

#25

“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: freedom, language, tolerance, truth

245 likes

#26

“Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.”
― Desmond Morris

46 likes

#27

“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
― Goethe

276 likes

#28

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17082 likes

#29

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: life

3392 likes

#30

“The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.”
― E.E. Cummings

1050 likes

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