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#1

“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, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

129346 likes

#2

“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

128011 likes

#3

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16118 likes

#4

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

tags: love, poetry, song

9933 likes

#5

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

9161 likes

#6

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science

5260 likes

#7

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding

2841 likes

#8

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

tags: philosophy, religion, science

2726 likes

#9

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.”
― Rumi

tags: morality, poetry

491 likes

#10

“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.”
― Nikki Giovanni

tags: love, poetry, rain, snow

481 likes

#11

“Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

tags: dreams, poetry

433 likes

#12

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

tags: hope, poetry, spring, winter

435 likes

#13

“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

77878 likes

#14

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

75748 likes

#15

“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey

tags: abuse-survivors, healing, inspirational, poetry

1056 likes

#16

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there 鈥檚 a pair of us鈥攄on鈥檛 tell!
They 鈥檇 banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: fame, poetry

1103 likes

#17

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709鈥�1713

tags: principia, science

2195 likes

#18

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

tags: confidence

6695 likes

#19

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7822 likes

#20

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

tags: poetry

6158 likes

#21

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: poetry

4250 likes

#22

“Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: 鈥淭he dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

54 likes

#23

“Focus on the process (the way you spend your time) instead of the product (what you want to accomplish).”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

41 likes

#24

“Multitasking means that you are not able to make full, rich connections in your thinking, because the part of your brain that helps make connections is constantly being pulled away before neural connections can be firmed up.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

13 likes

#25

“It鈥檚 normal to sit down with a few negative feelings about beginning your work. It鈥檚 how you handle those feelings that matters.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

9 likes

#26

“The trick to overwriting a habit is to look for the pressure point鈥攜our reaction to a cue. The only place you need to apply willpower is to change your reaction to the cue.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

5 likes

#27

“Articulating your question is 80 percent of the battle.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

3 likes

#28

“the learning process is all about working your way out of confusion.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

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