100 Quotes Project

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About 100 Quotes Project

Members are working on the 100 Quotes Project, wherein they take, process and post 100 photos inspired by the 100 quotes listed here. The quotes can be tackled in any order and at any pace members desire. The only rules are that all images must be inspired by one of the 100 quotes.

The 100 Quotes Project

1. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katharine Hepburn

2. The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

3. How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! - Emily Dickinson

4. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? - Pablo Picasso

6. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry Ellis

7. I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama

8. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. - Buddha

9. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C.S. Lewis

10. At any given moment you have the power to say this is not how the story is going to end.

11. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

12. Not all those that wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkien

13. Feel the rain on your skin. No one else can feel it for you. - Natasha Bedingfield

14. If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

15. At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again. - Maryanne Rodmacher

16. ‎Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the debris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering. - Nathanel West

17. Behind every beautiful thing, there's always a story of pain. - Cristina Valladares

18. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. - Steve Jobs

19. Real girls ain't flawless and a flawless girl ain't real. - Alex Atrache

20. With our thoughts we make our world. - Buddha

21. In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. - The Beatles

22. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

23. Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. - Marilyn Monroe

24. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe

25. We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. - Marilyn Monroe

26. I restore myself when I'm alone. - Marilyn Monroe

27. The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. - Woody Allen

28. Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. - Dr. Seuss

29. You loved me cause I'm fragile, when I thought that I was strong. But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone. - Sara Bareilles (Gravity)

30. Head under water and they tell me to breathe easy for a while. The breathing gets harder, even I know that. - Sara Bareilles (Love Song)

31. I won't go as a passenger, no, waiting for the road to be laid. Though I may be going down I'm taking flame over burning out. - Sara Bareilles (Uncharted)

32. I hate to break it to you babe, but I'm not drowning. There's no one here to save. - Sara Bareilles (King of Anything)

33. You gotta swim, swim in the dark, there's no shame in drifting. Feel the tide shifting and wait for the spark. Yeah you've gotta swim, don't let yourself sink, just find the horizon. I promise you it's not as far as you think. - Jack's Mannequin (Swim)

34. I'd like to think the best of me is still hiding up my sleeve. - John Mayer (No Such Thing)

35. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will get you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

36. Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice. - Robert Frost

37. If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. - Marilyn Monroe

38. If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere. - Marilyn Monroe

39. It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. - André Gide

40. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

41. Childhood is a short season. - Helen Hayes

42. Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels. - Greg Evans

43. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

44. You can always get someone to love you, even if you have to do it yourself. - Tom Masson

45. To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. - Shakespeare

46. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

48. All mankind love a lover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

49. Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

50. As soon as there is life there is danger. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

51. Beauty without expression is boring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

52. Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

53. Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

55. A year from now you will wish you had started today. - Karen Lamb

56. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. - Maria Robinson

57. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.

58. We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw

59. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain

60. Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

61. If you walk away, I’ll walk away.
First tell me which road you will take
I don’t want to risk our paths crossing some day.
So you walk that way, I’ll walk this way. - Bright Eyes (Landlocked Blues)

62. Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon

63. Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted. – John Lennon

64. The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go - it's figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! – A Walk to Remember

65. I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion. – Jacques Mayol

66. It is better to keep your mouth shut and to appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. – Mark Twain

67. The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. – Steve Maraboli

68. 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

69. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. – Oscar Wilde

70. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. – Chuck Palahniuk

71. We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. - Chuck Palahniuk

72. More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. – Chuck Palahniuk

73. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. – Robert Frost

74. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

75. Quiet people have the loudest minds. - Stephen Hawking

76. Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is. - Mark Twain

77. I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burrough

78. Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two. - Winnie the Pooh

79. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. - Henry Ward Beecher

80. Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. - Bob Marley

81. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

82. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

83. A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for. - William G.T. Shedd

84. The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

85. You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

86. Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. - Emily Carr

87. Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind...each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth... So, artist, you too from the deeps of your soul... let your roots creep forth, gaining strength. - Emily Carr

88. If you don’t know where you come from, you don’t know where you’re going.

89. Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most. - Mark Twain

90. Hell is empty and all the devils are here. - William Shakespeare

91. Dwell in possibility. - Emily Dickinson

92. No one is free. Even the birds are chained to the sky. - Bob Dylan

93. You can never be overdressed or overeducated. - Oscar Wilde

94. Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato

95. Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King Jr.

96. All great changes are preceded by chaos. - Deepak Chopra

97. Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Nietzche

98. You will never untangle the circumstances that brought you to this moment. Embrace your fate. - Leonard Cohen

99. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

100. There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes. - August Strindberg