“Ipsa scientia potestas est.” (“Knowledge itself is power.”)

- Sir Francis Bacon

Submitted by alexxxmc.

(70 votes, average: 4.40 out of 5)

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This tattoo was submitted by Danielle with a sad story:

Just over a year ago my fiance Noel took his own life. I had been in the process of making him a scrapbook to give to him at our rehearsal dinner. One of the pages included e.e. cummings’  poem “i carry your heart with me.”

A month after his death I had this tattoo done on the inside of my left wrist. It has the first line of the cummings’ poem around a winged heart. The tattoo was done by Alex at Fat Ram Pumpkin Tattoo in JP, Mass. The picture doesn’t do well showing the coloring, but Alex did a beautiful job.

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

- e. e. cummings, i carry your heart with me

(70 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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Submitted by Cassie W:

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”

- Che Guevara

(67 votes, average: 2.45 out of 5)

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Its an old maori proverb meaning “turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you”.
Need I say more.

(48 votes, average: 4.52 out of 5)

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This tattoo was submitted by Daphne, who says: “My tattoo is a quote by Gandhi that I saw on the wall of his ashram in Ahmedabad.”

“My life is my message.”

- Gandhi

(46 votes, average: 4.04 out of 5)

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Submitted by Jenna B.:

“Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.”

- Bernard Baruch, in response to disputed seating arrangements. (This quotation is often misattributed to Dr. Seuss.)

(53 votes, average: 3.68 out of 5)

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This tattoo was submitted by Austin:

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

- Ernest Hemingway

(61 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)

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“Get your god in my way, and I will bring you the rapture.”

- Henry Rollins

(source)

(64 votes, average: 3.53 out of 5)

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“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”

- Dante Alighieri

(source)

(60 votes, average: 4.30 out of 5)

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

- Gandhi

(source)

(36 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

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