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Short Tattoo Quotes

Please share with us all your experiences with and about tattoos and we will share with you some great short tattoo quotes.

“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die” –Unknown

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” – Unknown

“Wars begin in the minds of men” –Unknown

“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work” –Thomas Edison

“Success is the best revenge” –Unknown

“To be irreplaceable you have to be different” –Unknown

“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”  –William Henley

“Music is what feelings sound like” –Unknown

“Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today.” –James Dean

“If you want something you’ve never had, do something you’ve never done.” –Unknown

“You weren’t put on this earth to be ordinary.” –Unknown

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” –Sun Tzu

“Seize the day, place no trust in tomorrow” –Unknown

“Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, follow your heart.” –Unknown

“Actions speak louder then words.” –Unknown

“Tell me I can’t, i’ll show you I can.” –Unknown

“Stand for something, or youll fall for anything.” –Unknown

“No man alive, knows the struggles i’ve survived” –Unknown

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” –Unknown

“I may be lying in the gutter, but I’m staring at the stars.” –Unknown

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let your joy scream across the pain.” –Unknown

“God gave burdens, also shoulders.” –Unknown

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anais Nin

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Leap and the net will appear.”  –Unknown

“Kites rise highest against the wind.” –Unknown

“And in time this too shall pass” –Unknown

“Revel in the chaos” –Unknown

“Fall seven times, stand up eight” –Unknown

“To live is the rarest thing in the world” –Oscar Wilde

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all” –Unknown

“Pain is weakness leaving the body” –Unknown

“May I be forever grateful that at times, I did not receive that which I truly deserved.” –Unknown

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” –Unknown

“What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.” –Unknown

“Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.” –Wedding Crashers

“A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.” –William F. DeVault

“The perfect tattoo… the one I believe we are all struggling toward… is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.” –Cliff Raven

“Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.” –Vince Hemingson

“I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I’m thinking, okay, here’s a gal who’s capable of making a decision she’ll regret in the future.” –Richard Jeni

“For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.” –Cher

“Women, don’t get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you’re twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.” –Billy Elmer

“Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.” –Jack London

“The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.” –Margo DeMello

“The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos.” –Unknown

“Once our minds are ‘tattooed’ with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish” –John Maxwell

“Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos – they’re rebellious” –Jennifer Aniston

“Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent; like tattoos and marriage.” –Drew Barrymore

“Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.” –Nicole Appleton

“I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only 2″ taller” –Stephen Wright

Famous Quotes by Women

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. – Marianne Williamson

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anaïs Nin

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. – Anaïs Nin

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

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. – Anaïs Nin

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. – Louisa May Alcott

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

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

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. – Helen Keller

Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. – Mother Teresa

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 that has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

Dreams are necessary to life. – Anais Nin

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anaïs Nin

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]

People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anaïs Nin

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes. – Eleanor Roosevelt

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. – Anaïs Nin

Anais Nin Quotes

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Deep Life Quotes

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, “We did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them. – Edward R. Murrow

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart

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

Nice Quotes and Sayings

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. – Anaïs Nin

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. – Anne Frank

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

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

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. – Anonymous

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]

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

I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out. – Roy Croft

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. – Erica Jong

May today be your day to dance lightly with life
to sing wild songs of adventure,
to invite rainbows and butterflies out to play,
to soar your spirit and unfurl your joy. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Cool Quotes

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.” –Alfred Adler

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” –Thomas Jefferson

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” –Dr. Seuss

“Life is just a bowl of cherries.” –Anonymous

“Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.” -Queen Christina of Sweden

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” –Anais Nin

“Life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.” –Marcus Aurelius

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” –Soren Kierkegaard

“A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.” –Guy De Maupassant

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” –Anonymous

Quotes about Perspective

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. – Carl Jung

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. – Anaïs Nin

People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people’s historical perspective begins with the day of their birth. – Rush Limbaugh

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. – Anonymous

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Maslow

Do you prefer that you be right or happy? – A Course In Miracles

Bad is called good when worse happens. – Norwegian Proverb

We can train ourselves to view life from more joyful perspectives. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Try a new perspective on diversity. Across the country and around the world, we are all one. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is all in the perspective you take on it. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The beauty does not live out there; the beauty’s in my eyes. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones – that is why they are called beliefs. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be a passionate Observer of Life. See the events, feel the emotions, and recognize the difference. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Recognizing my blindness is the first step toward regaining my sight. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you keep getting the wrong answers, try asking better questions. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Having a personal opinion is great. Believing that one’s personal opinion is absolute truth leads to most of the world’s troubles.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We never see what we are not ready to see. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We would never have a word for Joy if there were no suffering. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take wing and soar to gain the broad view. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship Quotes to Live By

“What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you. He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you. With him you breathe freely. You can avow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him. Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges to the bone. He understands. You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all – and underneath – he sees, knows and loves you.
A friend? What is a friend?
Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself.” –C. Raymond Beran

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” –Anais Nin

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” –Aristotle

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” –Walter Winchell

“Don’t walk in front of me because I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me because I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.” –Albert Camus

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is a last drop that makes it run over; so in series of kindnesses, there is a last one that makes the heart run over.” –James Boswell

“Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.” – Al Pacino (in “City Hall“)

Wise Quotes

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. – Anais Nin

You always admire what you really don’t understand. – Blaise Pascal

One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. – Chinese proverb

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hofmann

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools. – Marshall McLuhan

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. – Elbert Hubbard

We can stay young by focusing on a dream instead of on a regret. – Unknown

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. – Wayne Dyer

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from the old ones. – John Maynard Kynes