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108682e Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart. -Martin friendship inspirational love redwall Brian Jacques
2fc4d1f Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness. darkness inspirational inspirational-quotes life-lessons light mama-chia wisdom Dan Millman
6add448 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. inspirational Anonymous
65139ea "Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear." inspirational Emily Brontë
09f5ee1 You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this. inspirational mess Max Lucado
76d668b Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. church inspirational music singing Anne Lamott
5f60366 Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully. death inspirational life-quotes origin robert-langdon Dan Brown
b5acfeb As for my brothers,' Zeus said, 'we are thankful -' he cleared his throat, like the words were hard to get out - 'erm, thankful for the aid of Hades.' The Lord of the Dead nodded. He had a smug look on his face, but I figure he'd earned the right. He patted his son Nico on the shoulders, and Nico looked happier than I'd ever seen him. humor-inspirational inspirational nico-di-angelo pay-back zeus Rick Riordan
00d607d Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will. cerulean-sins inspirational Laurell K. Hamilton
e433a3b Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape... But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future. inspirational Alan Moore
7223a62 It is not enough to be happy, one must be content. inspirational Victor Hugo
5a91447 The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. inspirational travel wicked Gregory Maguire
6d6c5cb "I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart." courage friendship inspirational J.R.R. Tolkien
8aa3e2a Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it. inspirational Nicholas Sparks
f0a8ae4 There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. brave courage deception eyes fortitude grace inspirational kind kindness life love precious stewardship world Marilynne Robinson
bb7a82f a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. inspirational love relatioships Elizabeth Gilbert
bb40c1c Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. creativity inspirational writing Steven Pressfield
df37201 Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about. inspirational David Eddings
598de0d Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold. --Johnny quoting Robert Frost inspirational S.E. Hinton
e00b13a If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence inspirational luck quote the-alchemist Paulo Coelho
a18376a Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast. inspirational life-philosophy night-watch terry-pratchett Terry Pratchett
8582517 All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning inspirational life love meanings paulo-coelho reason sufferings understand Paulo Coelho
e20dfe6 Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing. inspirational philosophy writing Anne Rice
749ba6e "You made them hate me." Said Ender "So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be." -Graff" hate inspirational love Orson Scott Card
5e7de1b These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs. feminism inspirational Margaret Cho
cee620b Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed. inspirational Khaled Hosseini
a74a7c1 Grow strong, my comrade ... that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more. inspirational wife Will Durant
41ee9a8 Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable. hardship inspirational life Lora Leigh
1fe848c Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill. inspirational landscape mockingbird scout season summer Harper Lee
0364f52 A lot of the world seems to repeat itself inspirational reality-of-life Emma Donoghue
585e86f "Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night." inspirational Darren Shan
a7dca75 "Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)" inspirational Max Lucado
6511683 "Are you born again?" he asked, as we taxied down the runway. He was rather prim and tense, maybe a little like David Eisenhower with a spastic colon. I did not know how to answer for a moment. "Yes," I said. "I am." inspirational life Anne LaMott
7878ef7 The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose? colour inspirational words James Joyce
90c39ac Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there's always something waiting, and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. death fate inspirational life living Truman Capote
ef3913d God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something. god inspirational prayer Karen Kingsbury
203f665 Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. happiness inspirational quotient reality Jodi Picoult
a9617e8 "For there to be pain, there has to be kindness. For darkness to standout there has to be the sun. You can't have one without the other, and both have their uses. So even if you stumble and make mistakes, that's not useless. Think of it as fertilizer, sure it feels like crap, but it will help you grow!" ~Kyoko Honda" inspirational Natsuki Takaya
2bb1ecf She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? dreaming dreams fairy-tales inkheart inspirational lovely sleep sleeping Cornelia Funke
cde71b5 Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand. inspirational the-lost-symbol Dan Brown
d6f3568 But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. inspirational Sherrilyn Kenyon
edd10b5 It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. humility inspirational love self-deprecating wooing T.H. White
69f66b1 Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you. grieving inspirational stories George R.R. Martin
5710d48 Shit don't mean shit inspirational life Stephen King
a085206 It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings, for instance, have a phrase that describes this phenomenon, 'The other man's grass is always greener.' The Shaltanac race of Broopkidren 13 had a similar phrase, but since their planet is somewhat eccentric, botanically speaking, the best they could manage was, 'The other Shaltanac's joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet.' And so the expression soon fell into disuse, and the Shaltanacs had little option but to become terribly happy and contented with their lot, much to the surprise of everyone else in the Galaxy who had not realized that the best way not to be unhappy is not to have a word for it. inspirational Douglas Adams
82454b8 At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? capitalism corporations dam economics environmental-degradation equality exploitation false-gods government government-corruption human-rights india inspirational narmada-valley nationalism reality truth women Arundhati Roy
4c4b1b0 But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. imagery inspirational love lovers metaphor suggestive Updike John
3473986 Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it? humor inspirational science Thomas Pynchon
12e6b94 The Lord will provide. heartwarming inspirational Francine Rivers
2d968d5 I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to. inspirational religious Joyce Meyer
6e352d3 Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When can I learn what I have here neglected to learn? Or is it true that death will cut off and put an end to all care and all feeling? This is something to be inquired into. But no, this cannot be true. It is not for nothing, it is not meaningless that all over the world is displayed the high and towering authority of the Christian faith. Such great and wonderful things would never have been done for us by God, if the life of the soul were to end with the death of the body. Why then do I delay? Why do I not abandon my hopes of this world and devote myself entirely to the search for God and for the happy life? christian confessions faith inspirational religion Augustine of Hippo
f893629 "We're all broken," Mor said. "In our own ways - in places no one might see." acotar acowar feyre-archeron inspirational mor sjm truth-of-life Sarah J. Maas
ebb15fe ...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. inspirational thoughtful Steve Martin
87a632c He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. inspirational tolkien Peter S. Beagle
2ea254b There came a time in everyone's life when they realized that in spite of how hard they'd been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable. inspirational J.R. Ward
3674b05 Love gives you eyes. christianity eyes inspirational jesus-shock love philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
8b90ba5 The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. inspirational Edith Hamilton
9ee2202 She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity. anonymity inspirational isolation Alice Sebold
4a47e00 "Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable." humorous inspirational sister-carlotta Orson Scott Card
7448edf When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable). god inspirational life plans purpose schedule will-of-god Elisabeth Elliot
560974a I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build my fire in a circle. The life cycles of plants and animals are circular. I live outside where I can see this. The ancient people understood that our world is a circle, but we modern people have lost site of that. I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life. Do people live in circles today? No. They live in boxes. They wake up every morning in a box of their bedrooms because a box next to them started making beeping noises to tell them it was time to get up. They eat their breakfast out of a box and then they throw that box away into another box. Then they leave the box where they live and get into another box with wheels and drive to work, which is just another big box broken into little cubicle boxes where a bunch of people spend their days sitting and staring at the computer boxes in front of them. When the day is over, everyone gets into the box with wheels again and goes home to the house boxes and spends the evening staring at the television boxes for entertainment. They get their music from a box, they get their food from a box, they keep their clothing in a box, they live their lives in a box. Break out of the box! This not the way humanity lived for thousands of years. inspirational life nature Elizabeth Gilbert
10ced50 We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours. confession humility inspirational jesus Max Lucado
24f7c2e A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have been a little depressed at first, but he didn't let misfortune get him down. It was like, Problem? What problem? He composed more than ever and came up with better music than anything he'd ever written. I really admire the guy. Like this Archduke Trio--he was nearly deaf when he wrote it, can you believe it? What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on--your strengths. Like being able to talk with the stone. composer inspirational reading Haruki Murakami
bb2d4fb The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way. inspirational sex George R.R. Martin
970b07f "Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that." inspirational the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
f0f28d2 No one should know his entire fate. It's too dangerous and too depressing. Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do. hero inspirational percy-jackson Rick Riordan
59464fb Don' you worry, Harry. You'll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you'll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it's hard. Yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard. But yeh'll have a great time at Hogwarts -- I did -- still do, 'smatter of fact. inspirational J.K. Rowling
e6693fe The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we're desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth. inspirational nurses Jodi Picoult
81455f6 For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. inspiration inspirational inspirational-life life-and-death life-and-living life-lessons meditation-experience mind-body-spirit mind-control mind-power mindfulness mindfulness-practice quotes-i-love quotes-on-life quotes-that-make-sense quotes-to-define-my-life quotes-to-live-by Jon Kabat-Zinn
bb7d85c This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (NIV) god inspirational scripture truth verse Anonymous
2c9d68f By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. inspirational Stephen King
fae7222 "He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine." girls inspirational touching Rick Riordan
0644ecd I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. brave courage fortitude god grace inspirational jesus kind kindness life love pray prayer praying precious prudence stewardship world Marilynne Robinson
76f4f28 "When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen." historical inspirational literary women David McCullough
fa90452 This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-fly-apart-disintegrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too? explode inspirational writing Ray Bradbury
f613cc5 You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know inspirational writing Ernest Hemingway
d87cbb2 Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth. inspirational religious Joyce Meyer
7c5bd35 You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. friendship inspirational relationships J.K. Rowling
3c72f64 If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take? inspirational sad thought-provoking Jodi Picoult
572f8e7 No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy. inspirational Mitch Albom
bf3f042 The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit. bible-study inspirational prayer Stormie Omartian
16d1f58 I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it. courage fear i-am-the-messenger inspirational life markus-zusak Markus Zusak
54fa1a9 There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good -- they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. inspirational life-philosophy truth Mercedes Lackey
c7ec89a A new heart for a New Year, always! heart inspirational new-years Charles Dickens
b18b1e1 There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom. inspirational knowledge Rachel Caine
2eb39c7 I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. inspirational quote success the-alchemist Paulo Coelho
96f44de Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America's great novel that 'You Can't Go Home Again.' I enjoyed the book but I never agreed with the title. I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe. Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors, are mysterious apparitions, who come, go, and do strange unfathomable things in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen. [...] We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do. inspirational Maya Angelou
3d7dd0f There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why. inspirational women Terry Tempest Williams
7d275e5 When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow. inspirational keladry-of-mindelan squire tamora-pierce Tamora Pierce
6b45164 [Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you. inspirational meaningful Terry Pratchett
f6049d6 Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. inspirational shadow shadow-series shadows Anaïs Nin
e4f920f I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell. inspirational life Ray Bradbury
ea8cf19 But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. inspirational into-the-wild Jon Krakauer
cd04187 This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner. family inspirational love Karen Kingsbury
df26148 In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. inspirational Martin Luther King Jr.
c8ab6ea . . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. inspirational political sexuality social women Audre Lorde
7e7504e If chance be the Father of all flesh, Disaster is his rainbow in the sky, And when you hear State of Emergency! Sniper Kills Ten! Troops on Rampage! Whites go Looting! Bomb Blasts School! It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker. inspirational philosophy religion Steve Turner
88cd9be The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. inspirational Franz Kafka
ae18418 Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful. inspirational Francesca Lia Block
4322453 I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive. inspirational Richard Wright
896b19f One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing. humanity inspirational misattributed-plutarch J.K. Rowling
ecdd2dc Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not. faith inspirational inspirational-quotes leanring life wisdom Dan Millman
739534a Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with this knowledge: there is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all ONE, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor, and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life; just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are for more than you imagine. you are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free! inspirational life worry Dan Millman
c31e3eb "Zoe--" I said. "Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady." A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight." "Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again. Thalia lowered her head. Annabeth gulped down a sob, and her father put his hands on her shoulders. I watched as Artemis cupped her hand above Zoe's mouth and spoke a few words in Ancient Greek. A silvery wisp of smoke exhaled from Zoe's lips and was caught in the hand of the goddess. Zoe's body shimmered and disappeared. Artemis stood, said a kind of blessing, breathed into her cupped hand and released the silver dust to the sky. It flew up, sparkling, and vanished. For a moment I didn't see anything different. Then Annabeth gasped. Looking up in the sky, I saw that the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before--a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girl's figure--a girl with a bow, running across the sky. "Let the world honor you, my Huntress," Artemis said. "Live forever in the stars." inspirational sadness Rick Riordan The Titan's Curse
052df2c This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. inspirational life John Steinbeck
125eb98 It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. inspirational percy-jackson-and-the-olympians pjo the-titan-s-curse Rick Riordan
c263b90 The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. friendship inspirational price sacrifice Sarah J. Maas
3d3e9f6 "Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin." inspirational Max Lucado
c912b40 Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. catholicism christianity god hearts heaven inspirational jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
dc53499 Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. dreams faith inspiration inspirational metaphysics mystical-poetry mystical-powers positive-motivation power spirituality Aberjhani
fbccacf What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness? inspirational intellect love mind Martin Luther King Jr.
9a89164 I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am. inspirational life otma romanovs royalty russia russian-revolution self tsar-nicholas Sarah Miller
7b78707 Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same. inspirational Stephen Chbosky
dc13070 Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did. heroin inspirational john page-418 phury J.R. Ward
05eaaf3 Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. inspirational Jimmy Buffett
edb6885 "Hermes's shoulders sagged. "They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we gods have never been good at keeping oaths. You were born because of a broken promise, eh? Eventually we'll become forgetful. We always do." "You can change." Hermes laughed. "After three thousand years, you think the gods can change their nature?" "Yeah," I said. "I do." hermes inspirational keeping-promises percy-jackson Rick Riordan
a9b7df1 So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. brom christopher-paolini eragon inspirational martyr Christopher Paolini
0cb90e8 "You'd better tell me what you know, toad," said Tiffany. "Miss Tick isn't here. I am." "Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "There. Happy now? That's what Miss Tick thinks. But it's happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back." "Why?" "There's no one to stop them." There was silence for a moment. "There's me," said Tiffany." inspirational monsters Terry Pratchett
98fc973 It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty. inspirational meaningful symbolic Jeannette Walls
5c8a1cb We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface. inspirational portobello spiritual transformation witch Paulo Coelho
dfc57ac I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask. inspirational life Robert Louis Stevenson
735dea3 We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. creativity inspirational Elizabeth Gilbert
100f471 "Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my fiction I think this search sometimes turns out to be a cruel delusion. No optimism, no pessimism. No homesickness for lost values or for the way fiction used to be written. Everybody seems to know everything. Subjects surface and are totally exhausted in a matter of days or weeks, totally played out by the publishing industry and the broadcast industry. Nothing is too arcane to escape the treatment, the process. Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market. The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. The writer is the man or woman who automatically takes a stance against his or her government. There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. Some people prefer to believe in conspiracy because they are made anxious by random acts. Believing in conspiracy is almost comforting because, in a sense, a conspiracy is a story we tell each other to ward off the dread of chaotic and random acts. Conspiracy offers coherence. I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfillment in America... I see this desperation against the backdrop of brightly colored packages and products and consumer happiness and every promise that American life makes day by day and minute by minute everywhere we go. Discarded pages mark the physical dimensions of a writer's labor. Film allows us to examine ourselves in ways earlier societies could not--examine ourselves, imitate ourselves, extend ourselves, reshape our reality. It permeates our lives, this double vision, and also detaches us, turns some of us into actors doing walk-throughs. humor inspirational science Don DeLillo
309d56c "Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! awareness awareness-quotes be become beloved conscious consciousness consciousness-quotes dance enjoy feet forget hafez hafiz harmony inspirational kamand kamand-kojouri khayyam kojouri let-go letting-go-quotes life live living-in-the-now love lover moment music present rumi saadi sing song spiritual spirituality sufi surrender voice yourself Kamand Kojouri
d6a0740 And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom. burgess clockwork-orange inspirational Anthony Burgess
e0177df There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon. inspirational Jimmy Buffett
3e15f8f Form follows emotion inspirational life Walter Isaacson
4097c18 "And he'd railed at her, his voice booming so loud the bed had seem to shake. She knew he was constantly there, was aware of his movement and comprehended his words, but she couldn't seem to open her heavy eyelids or speak. At night, he would wrap his body around hers, keeping her warm, whispering against her hair, "You enjoy being contrary. Then prove them all wrong and get better." He'd clutched her hip, then balled his fist there." ethan-maccarrick inspirational love maddy romance sickness Kresley Cole
f808ff9 What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together. inspirational Beth Revis
40c3061 "I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York's broodmare." I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. "You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn't that sin?" His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. "I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful." inspirational love romantic Philippa Gregory
2e6def4 Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he'll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like. inspirational janie love sweet Penny Reid
32e5aec She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them. inspirational life pride strong Isabel Allende
25f6771 Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth. christ christian god inspirational jesus lord lordship love will Elisabeth Elliot
ffbf722 I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. birth identity inspiration inspirational life love name names new-life poetry resurrection shakespeare theater theatre William Shakespeare
c7e0ac2 There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket. inspirational Elizabeth Gilbert
1ea3283 I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. essays humor inspirational nature-writing weasels Annie Dillard
3eae2c8 At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead. inspirational satire Bret Easton Ellis
7a47d33 Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him faith hope inspirational love truth Karen Kingsbury
7ae046b I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let's think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow- that's vulnerability. Love is uncertain. It's incredibly risky. And loving someone leaves us emotionally exposed. Yes, it's scary, and yes, we're open to being hurt, but can you imagine your life without loving or being loved? daring-greatly inspirational Brené Brown
5f1b5ff There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. inspirational motivational Orson Scott Card
3bc375a The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are. inspirational religious Joyce Meyer
c8aa135 So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you! chimes inspirational new wise year Charles Dickens
842639c If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do. inspirational religious Joyce Meyer
d14212b "It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor." inspirational late plan time Mitch Albom
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