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5442497 Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that. inspirational love-and-glory respecting-others Judith McNaught
3bc375a The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are. religious inspirational Joyce Meyer
b6d7a85 For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted. hope love inspirational Sherrilyn Kenyon
842639c If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do. religious inspirational Joyce Meyer
069b726 It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. goodness hope inspirational blessings sherlock-holmes flowers Arthur Conan Doyle
3a2ce84 When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be. inspirational Iyanla Vanzant
2904c4d He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you're beautiful exactly the way are now. names true-love love inspirational exotic cecelia-ahern Cecelia Ahern
45ca152 The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is waged on our knees. When we don't pray, it's like sitting on the sidelines watching those we love and care about scrambling through a war zone, getting shot at from every angle. When we do pray, however, we're in the battle alongside them, approaching God's power on their behalf. If we also declare the Wordog God in our prayers, then we wield a powerful weapon against which no enemy can prevail. inspirational Stormie Omartian
e2f1990 "Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N." inspirational our-shared-shelf Maya Angelou
ad66340 you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you. inspirational respect Khaled Hosseini
d397446 Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. inspirational Leo Tolstoy
b23d0b7 "I know," said Peter. "Perhaps better than anyone. But you can't stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo's Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick--the real choice--is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up. "It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere... "...but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day." life inspirational peter-pan jack childhood James A. Owen
35d4cdc I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling. people inspirational Terry Pratchett
19dd442 "I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there was always the wall behind me. Do you know what I mean? First you try and climb, pretending it never happened, but it's too tall. Then you try to go around, thinking you can fix it, but it is too far. Then, in frustration, you beat on it with your hands, but it does nothing, so you tire and sit down and just stare at it. You stare because you can't bring yourself to walk away. Walking away means that you're giving up, abandoning them. inspirational myron riyria sad Michael J. Sullivan
251fac9 Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all. irony svejk inspirational Jaroslav Hašek
23b04ae God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. success religious inspirational quotes-to-live-by Paulo Coelho
0bc5585 Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers. inspirational John Steinbeck
21e682d And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly. life inspirational routine Paulo Coelho
e45a42b That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You're both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds. life inspirational Cecelia Ahern
86fe157 Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow. hope life love inspirational lesson Cecelia Ahern
6bb3323 In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. life inspirational Mark Haddon
5c7b997 Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the original! The humbling resemblance can only be respected, not truly adored beauty love inspirational Faraaz Kazi
39c1100 [T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable. religious inspirational Joyce Meyer
ee05a8a Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. perfection writing inspirational Anne Lamott
76eca4f Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects of my appearance, conduct, and situation, and said, 'Finally.' 'There's been a lot on my mind,' I replied. 'It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten,' Queen Mab replied. 'Improve your mind.' inspirational Jim Butcher
a0554cd No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot. humor inspirational Stephenie Meyer
5b9d76d Them as can do, has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices. terry-pratchett inspirational wee-free-men kindness-to-animals Terry Pratchett
53f3757 ...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361 inspirational Geraldine Brooks
6ce3326 Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return. inspirational Lindsey Davis
32ea0b3 This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. philosophical inspirational opening-lines Mitch Albom
a65b30c "I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion." inspirational H.G. Wells
f798372 I'd have my happy ending, whether I deserved it or not. But this land, these people - they would have their happy ending too. The first few steps toward healing. Toward peace. And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine. inspirational happy-ending depressing self-help Sarah J. Maas
997890e The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before inspirational art-matters Neil Gaiman
a698d50 If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it. inspirational mindfulness Richard Bach
733ef93 "The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE science inspirational Iain M. Banks
e17a18c Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . . inspirational wilderness Wallace Stegner
7841433 Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win. inspirational Nancy Farmer
fa84863 Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. life inspirational Ray Bradbury
db1b338 Of course, they're not clowning around to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very lives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes. I think that's cool. life inspirational murakami Haruki Murakami
78f996e The only reason a man should ever pick up a sword was to protect those he loved, not to willfully take the life of someone else's beloved. love inspirational warrior Sherrilyn Kenyon
aebebaf Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets. metaphor life inspirational growing-up John Green
6d07704 "A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes," the Mountain declared. "Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six." inspirational George R.R. Martin
0c276c8 Bill was -- there was no other word for it -- . He was tall, with long hair that he had tied back in a ponytail. He was wearing an earring with what looked like a fang dangling from it. Bill's clothes would not have looked out of place at a rock concert, except that Harry recognized his boots to be made, not of leather, but of dragon hide. inspirational ideal J.K. Rowling
693987f The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself. money poetry inspirational moon-palace peom planet smelling food Paul Auster
90acd20 Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. inspirational talent Michio Kaku
e04d4da Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared. good motivational inspirational the-impossible-knife-of-memory laurie-halse-anderson scared Laurie Halse Anderson
28c2ecd In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness. music inspirational J.R.R. Tolkien
56e7a1c "The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?" "So the minstrels say," said Eomer. "Then let us defend it, and hope!" inspirational J.R.R. Tolkien
a99fed4 Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. tolkien motivational inspirational middle-earth lord-of-the-rings J.R.R. Tolkien
d6bc208 !Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedara solo un Aqui. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedara solo un Ahora. Y entre el Aqui y el Ahora, ?no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces? life-lessons inspirational Richard Bach
89c85b0 Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall. spirit inspirational ghetto nazi defiance jew resistance Leon Uris
c91f3c3 And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows. inspirational Luke Davies
7acf9b7 COOL*NESS [KOOL-NIS] -noun CATCHING your mom gazing at the crazy crowd like she finally gets it WATCHING your dad head-banging like he's Finn's twin brother LEARNING that your new friends Tash and Kallie are a thousand times more complicated than you realized, and loving them for it FEELING every one of your boyfriend's pounding drumbeats, and thinking it's the most romantic music ever written REALIZING you're completely unique . . . even in a crowd inspirational definition piper Antony John
bd3af4c Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. happiness life inspirational Leo Tolstoy
359e84c "Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled inspirational Arthur Koestler
450db90 It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look. writing inspirational Jeanette Winterson
f0f0365 Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen. inspirational philosophical-reflection Mark Z. Danielewski
7b1abee No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depend on who's driving. life inspirational springsteen Bruce Springsteen
7284348 If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? happiness inspirational Jodi Picoult
f52cc96 That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war. story history inspirational ww2 russian world-war-ii pessimism jews russia jewish David Benioff
9137690 The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which. religion inspirational gods R.A. Salvatore
44af3ef I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid. imagination inspirational monsters J.K. Rowling
5eafe70 If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with. inspirational dystopian dystopian-fiction good-book inside-out insider maria-snyder snyder maria-v-snyder Maria V. Snyder
6a2c4df Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away. inspirational Jodi Picoult
15939d4 I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is. strength inspirational Ken Kesey
18f45fb Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth. women-s-rights inspirational Simone de Beauvoir
f8dcffa She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins. writing inspirational Tom Robbins
63d6570 I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance. inspirational hollandaise food Michael Ruhlman
14d5368 "Why don't you use some sense and try to be more like me? You might live to be a hundred and seven, too." "Because it's better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees," Nately retorted with triumphant and lofty conviction. "I guess you've heard that saying before." "Yes, I certainly have," mused the treacherous old man, smiling again. "But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes." "Are you sure?" Nately asked with sober confusion. "It seems to make more sense my way." "No, it makes more sense my way. Ask your friends." inspirational Joseph Heller
c05ff58 Try to roll with the punches. Keep your chin up. Don't take any wooden nickels. Vote Democrat in every election. Ride your bike in the park. Dream about my perfect, golden body. Take your vitamins. Drink eight glasses of water a day. Pull for the Mets. Watch a lot of movies. Don't work too hard at your job. Take a trip to Paris with me. Come to the hospital when Rachel has her baby and hold my grandchild in your arms. Brush your teeth after every meal. Don't cross the street on a red light. Defend the little guy. Stick up for yourself. Remember how beautiful you are. Remember how much I love you. Drink one Scotch on the rocks every day. Breathe deeply. Keep your eyes open. Stay away from fatty foods. Sleep the sleep of the just. Remember how much I love you. life love inspirational peace Paul Auster
0280a7a The executioner's argument was that you couldn't cut of something's head unless there was a trunk to sever it from. He'd never done anything like that in his time of life, and wasn't going to start now. The King's argument was that anything that had a head, could be beheaded, and you weren't to talk nonsense. The Queen's argument was that if something wasn't done about it in less than no time, she'd have everyone beheaded all round. It was this last argument that had everyone looking so nervous and uncomfortable. humour inspirational Lewis Carroll
4036df0 Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. freedom inspirational beauty-in-literature freedom-of-expression freedom-of-speech freedom-of-thought Frederick Douglass
d81a066 Take too much time, and time will take you. time mortality inspiring motivational inspirational seize-the-day motivating carpe-diem mortal Lisa Kleypas
1a06bb5 But I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have become too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout than to do it. inspirational treebeard think J.R.R. Tolkien
95839e0 The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness. inspirational children-s-reminiscences Maya Angelou
8f57413 Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us. inspirational Al Gore
d471501 Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. hope inspirational recovery Marian Keyes
30ac17a Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. truth inspirational Robert Ludlum
000fe32 "As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity." " inspirational Al Gore
cbad4d6 In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die? suicide people writing life inspirational survival Paulo Coelho
fdd3279 <...> though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it afterwards. Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991 - January 7, 1992. But this is not important. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you. inspirational Jon Krakauer
2534e95 ...he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I'm outside or is it all America? loneliness inspirational angstrom updike rabbit outside strangeness isolation thought Updike John
2f28270 * The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldn't bear not to defend it and the losses you are going to suffer are things that you could afford to lose. If you do fight, the thing to remember is that it is going to hurt because that is what happens in a fight and you might as well reconcile yourself to it in the beginning and then it will not matter when it happens inspirational Jennifer Crusie
145be27 It is easy to be calm when there is nothing to worry about, Eragon. The true test of your self-control, however, is whether you can remain calm in a trying situation. You cannot allow anger or frustration to cloud your thoughts, not at the moment. Right now, you need your mind to be clear. Have you always been able to remain calm at times like this? The old dragon seemed to chuckle. No. I used to growl and bite and knock down trees and tear up the ground. Once, I broke the top off of a mountain in the Spine; the other dragons were rather upset with me for that. But I have had many years to learn that losing my temper rarely helps. You have not, I know, but allow my experience to guide you in this. Let go of your worries and focus on the task at hand. The future will be what is will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. I know, Eragon sighed, but it's not easy. Of course not. Few things of worth are. Then Glaedr withdrew and left him to the silence of his own mind. humor inspirational Christopher Paolini
de70251 And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade. death life-lessons truth inspirational crossroads Jacqueline Carey
c2b81d8 You save yourself or you remain unsaved. rape inspirational self-responsibility Amy Reed
9468d74 "Be Drunken, Always. That is the point; nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weigh you down and crush you to the earth, be drunken continually. inspirational Charles Baudelaire
748b88a I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either. family friendship love inspirational judgement David Almond
edda8a5 The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light. inspirational Chris Bohjalian
7b53c1a "Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely." -- spiritual inspirational Jimmy Carter
0f9777e "A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself" women inspirational growing-up Caitlin Moran
2b9c00d "I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime." inspirational justice G.K. Chesterton
0852a64 That's what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes a blank, unreadable mask. violence inspirational bad-ass Ryū Murakami
6e36b8e The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. death life inspirational atheism Christopher Hitchens
a4006fa Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind. inspirational job-seeking unemployment Marianne Williamson
12bc675 If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance life love inspirational Danielle Steel
45dd49a I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall. inspirational sandman Neil Gaiman
9942365 Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better. inspirational bully do-good bullying bigfoot bullies dresden Jim Butcher
b9b1f35 because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary. faith inspirational Rob Bell
6acf703 Don't Stop Believing inspirational Journey
b2a573d I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away. life inspirational decisions Nora Roberts
8d1e812 Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it. fairy-tales inspirational skin Emma Donoghue
a5e2b43 I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape humor inspirational temeraire togetherness rescue help Naomi Novik
dd29c7d You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five. life inspirational reflections aging Mitch Albom
4485273 "Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me." inspirational robert-jordan wheel-of-time Robert Jordan
b37d792 "Everyone doesn't have to do everything," she told me. "People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created by other people, things I could never make or do. I wouldn't trade that for anything." inspirational Will Schwalbe
106543c It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can. universe inspirational Bill Bryson
15a631b Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone. woman spiritual love inspirational Anne Morrow Lindbergh
15dae9a Don't Believe Everything You Think! inspirational spiritual-growth slice-of-life Robert Fulghum
2cd2d49 Is anything too hard for the Lord? (Genesis 18:14) religious inspirational Anonymous
f55f2a2 I generally don't become overexcited about things anyway, I'm just not one of those people.I'm not easily surprised by things either. I think it's because I expect that anything can happen. That makes me sound like a believer and I'm not necessarily that either. I'll phrase it better: I just accept things that happen. All things. quote life inspirational cecelia-ahern Cecelia Ahern
d48b656 It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear. war fear inspirational world-war-2 Lois Lowry
7eb674a Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others. beauty inspirational Charles de Lint
662e323 With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible. courage hope inspirational conquer impossible fears Juliet Marillier
3350c57 My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed. I thought about him going into my mom's room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the one to work in a mill. I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure she has a better life than you do. I just don't know. inspirational Stephen Chbosky
ff03a02 Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it. death heart love inspirational my-idol prince-valiant valiant Holly Black
71e8638 Every day is a chance to start over. Any day can be bad, surely, but any day can be good, can be great, and that promise, that potential, is a beautiful thing indeed. inspirational R.A. Salvatore
5025137 There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be. inspirational J.R.R. Tolkien
98cdf3e "Let's burn our masks at midnight and as flickering flames ascend, under the witness of star-clouds, let us vow to reclaim our true selves. Done with hiding and weary of lying, we'll reconcile without and within. Then, like naked squint-eyed newborns, we'll greet the glorious birth of dawn; inspiration motivational inspirational motivational-quotes being-real true-selves true-self carpe-diem real burn authenticity masks John Mark Green
8675eab "You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead." inspirational Charlaine Harris
60fa697 Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means. life inspirational Tom Robbins
0ecf402 It is just as crazy to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else. christianity jesus spirituality god philosophy inspirational crazy-in-love crazy-love jesus-shock jesus-christ theology christ crazy Peter Kreeft
37d958d Earthborn animals do this thing, inside their brains--a sort of firing-off of synapses, controlled insanity. While they're asleep. The part of their brain that records sight or sound, it's firing off every hour or two while they sleep; even when all the sights and sounds are complete random nonsense, their brains just keep on trying to assemble it into something sensible. They try to make stories out of it. It's complete random nonsense with no possible correlation to the real world, and yet they turn it into these crazy stories. And then they forget them. All that work, coming up with these stories, and when they wake up they forget almost all of them. But when they do remember, then they try to make stories about those crazy stories, trying to fit them into their real lives. ...They change what their stories mean. They transform things so that the same memory can mean a thousand different things. Even from their dreams, sometimes they make up out of that randomness something that illuminates everything. ...Even if the vast majority of them are wrong, even if ninety-nine of every hundred is stupid and wrong, out of those thousands of ideas that still leaves them with a hundred good ones. That's how they make up for being so stupid and having such short lives and small memories. inspirational Orson Scott Card
bc37776 Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know. relationships life inspirational Bryan Lee O'Malley
782b077 Because love was a light that wouldn't allow darkness to reign in his soul. love inspirational Karen Kingsbury
ee54a85 When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness. suffering happiness inspirational sufffering les-misérables Victor Hugo
a8da206 "You couldn't be more wrong", I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort" , Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting", I said. "You were a rare and fragile flower once. You remember." For a moment he said nothing. "You do know how to shut me up, Hazel Grace." "It's my privilege and responsibility," I answered." inspirational the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
0682fd1 My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. money religion inspirational parenting James McBride
bd205b6 Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon. happiness inspirational stress Susan Sarandon
b883d88 The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which he glimpses in the world around him, which wither in his grasp and he snatches away from him even while the wither, are found again, perfect, complete and lasting in the absolute beauty of God. heaven god inspirational Randy Alcorn
4eb0421 If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards--you are going deeper. woman prayer inspirational quotes Stormie Omartian
02bc5e0 You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen. education inspirational dedication-and-attitude education-knowledge education-of-a-wandering-man education-study-studying knowledge-education knowledge-habit-inspirational knowledge-power knowledge-teaching inspirational-quote knowledge-of-self citizenship reminder knowledge Homer Hickam
246ef47 When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times. inspirational secret-of-life Paulo Coelho
f89dc4a Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves! humanity inspirational selfishness Alexandre Dumas
c648ffd Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else knew about it was beside the purpose. He took his staff in one hand and the phial in his other. When he saw that the clear light was already welling through his fingers, he thrust it into his bosom and held it against his heart. Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road. hope inspirational J.R.R. Tolkien
1a41c6c oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you've been given it, I'd as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift. life inspirational Cecelia Ahern
56647e7 He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living. loss death love inspirational Alice Sebold
6f96dd8 ... I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. inspirational self-confidence Mark Haddon
9177522 Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written in glitter, or dresses made of kids' sheets printed with pink piglets or Disney characters. inspirational Francesca Lia Block
84204dd "Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her. Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction." Reverse the direction?" Yes, turn it around." How would you do that?" You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad." But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?" You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad." wrong inspirational decisions right Jeanne DuPrau
d563034 If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck. spirit inspirational Elizabeth von Arnim
908bf4c "The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn" spirit inspirational Charles de Lint
50c383c All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived. change inspirational Kim Stanley Robinson
cdde669 Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer. writing inspirational Ray Bradbury
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