Site uses cookies to provide basic functionality.

OK
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 13 15 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ▲ ▼
Link Quote Stars Tags Author
d5e5e02 Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your priorities over time. focus inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking priorities priority time Roy T. Bennett
90c3eab A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world. alter chain choice course decision domino fate inspirational life lives monumental reaction stranger world J.D. Stroube
7aa65dc Deep rivers run quiet. life love shyness Haruki Murakami
4ccae6b No one escapes from life alive. life Michael Crichton
41f2aea He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. dreams hopes inspirational life aspirations Virginia Woolf
205be92 The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing? life life-lessons Elizabeth Gilbert
804f2d8 Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. inspirational life Annie Dillard
754b005 Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving. life literature men scarlett-o-hara women Margaret Mitchell
860dda3 Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. armageddon cinema death end-of-the-world life post-modernism simulacra Roger Zelazny
6ad0291 "Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?" happiness idiots intelligence life Orhan Pamuk
389797b Life did not stop, and one had to live. life inspirational Leo Tolstoy
da39a3e inspirational motivational american-dream freedom watchmen choice darkness dedication evil goodness hardship hope marie-lu beauty harmony inspiration intelligence intimate life meaning-of-life nature order pure quailty science Terry Pratchett
93bedf3 it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded. courage inspirational life Anne Morrow Lindbergh
0fee9a5 There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. life philosophy Kurt Vonnegut
8cb0a26 ??????? ??? ?? ??? ????? .. ???? ??? ????? ???? .. ?? ???? ?? ???? ?? ??? .. ???? ???? ?? ????? ????? .. ??? ????? ??? ???? ????? courage inspirational life ???? ?????
3869ed6 Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine) hate life Cassandra Clare
671b239 Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are. That's my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. life literature reading Ray Bradbury
03c11f6 Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best. doing inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
2d721a2 He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. happy life wild Jon Krakauer
61e9a13 A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself. authenticity happiness inspirational life self-knowledge true-to-yourself Steve Maraboli
82ad1ba Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes. agreement-with-reality changing inspirational labels letting-go life motivational Steve Maraboli
267463b "What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you." liberty life love soulmates Lisa Kleypas
4ae1279 That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. inspirational life Antoine de Saint Exupéry
2ce7327 Love doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day beautiful inspirational life love relationships David Levithan
125dab0 Love doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt. It just has to be. inspirational life love relationships David Levithan
d772ff6 I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a little quieter. Where trolls stay the hell under their bridges and where elves don't come swooping out to snatch children from their cradles. Where vampires respect the limits, and where the faeries mind their p's and q's. My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. When things get strange, when what goes bump in the night flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, give me a call. I'm in the book. hope life Jim Butcher
037afee Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. life perfect perfection something-wicked-this-way-comes Ray Bradbury
7305ffa having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for. bukowski death life love poem poetry strength strength-through-adversity stronger struggle Charles Bukowski
25cf7ca Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. life metaphor violin E.M. Forster
383b6d5 The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last. inspirational life love Jonathan Larson
97f62cd Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. inspirational life Og Mandino
c3759d5 You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through. inspirational lessons life trials trouble Jonathan Anthony Burkett
e9940ad Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves. life readers reading writers Lloyd Alexander
c551dfc Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can. life Yann Martel
02df7f7 The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow. life love Tess Gerritsen
cb55aa1 She wasn't afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now. 'I'm afraid of committing myself,' she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic dissappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life. life love Paulo Coelho
57f1467 "What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says." life worries John Green
30817b3 Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. life under-the-hood Alan Moore
1c2b954 The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. inspirational life Frances Willard
093479f Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going. inspirational life scars David Rossi
e1504c3 You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. inspirational life H. L. Mencken
22ab1ae Create your own miracles; do what you think you cannot do. action doing inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living miracles motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
a5277f2 Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times. inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring keep-your-mind-open life life-quotes live-life-to-the-fullest living living-life-to-the-fullest meaning mind open-your-mind opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
519256a They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. being hesse life siddhartha unity water Hermann Hesse
67b014d Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be. life James Frey
038c798 There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while. depression hard-times inspirational life adversity Nick Hornby
d55bffb For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark. life inspirational Stephen King
3b49d78 Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore. amazing happy inspirational life love Chad Sugg
5b2185a If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp. biology humans life science universe Bill Bryson
8f0f883 Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way. death life time Cassandra Clare
1f29cdc Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. life solemn truth war warrior George R.R. Martin
e50b4c0 I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite. life personal personality Jean-Paul Sartre
c633c15 there's nothing to discuss there's nothing to remember there's nothing to forget it's sad and it's not sad seems the most sensible thing a person can do is sit with drink in hand as the walls wave their goodbye smiles one comes through it all with a certain amount of efficiency and bravery then leaves some accept the possibility of God to help them get through others take it staight on and to these I drink tonight. bukowski death forget forgetting god goodbye goodbyes help independence life love poem poetry sad sadness Charles Bukowski
c947be8 He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy. alexander-lightwood cassandra-clare family infernal-devices life love magnus-bane malec mortal-instruments shadowhunter Cassandra Clare
0d96a80 No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? action change destiny history inspirational life motivational seize-the-day success today Steve Maraboli
2cd4bdd Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now. inspirational life Claudia Gray
646ea3a But what is life if you don't live it? inspirational life James Patterson
8d2df68 Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. life louisa love Louisa May Alcott
a273cb3 You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. (Matthew 5:14, The Message) god life light Anonymous
2a9d78f A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. books language life reading words Henry David Thoreau
d8f7490 Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us. humiliation humor life Paul Murray
01ed13c Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times. adversity inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking trials-of-life Roy T. Bennett
ae8a54a You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road. life tuck-everlasting Natalie Babbitt
555cbcd Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame. cherokee inspirational life strength P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
074f6ac Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. excellence inspirational life philosophy truth wisdom critics Robert A. Heinlein
f63c8f2 And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. life Leo Tolstoy
ee0df14 Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy? life material sadness Paulo Coelho
3c45816 Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. harry-dresden life Jim Butcher
7aea9d6 So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry awakening life love travel Jack Kerouac
18159dc The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. human-nature life Irvin D. Yalom
28ef260 People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. body breakfast-of-champions chemicals human kurt-vonnegut life people ugly Kurt Vonnegut
78df07e Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. inspirational life George Bernard Shaw
6236395 It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be. laugh life misery van-helsing world Bram Stoker
dbf11d8 But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought once it had become possible, and that glimpse has set me wandering, trying to find the balance between earth and sky. If the servants hadn't rushed in and parted us, I might have been disappointed, might have snatched off the white samite to find a bowl of soup. As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed. lgbt life love philosophy religion Jeanette Winterson
2a506c3 Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her. albert-camus existentialism life literature philosophy the-stranger Albert Camus
19eb3e5 "Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable." -- free-will life Kurt Vonnegut
0f59203 Life sucks, and then you die. Yeah, I should be so lucky. life twilight Stephenie Meyer
b1af5b4 I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart. be-yourself beauty best feelings head heart heartache heartbreak infatuation inspirational life life-lessons love lust mistakes realist relationships sentimental sex truth word-junkies Crystal Woods
e185dd4 Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades death inspirational lee-argus life love qoutes-to-live-by quote romance Lee Argus
e95b808 How would your life be different if...You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day...You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve. action drama inspirational life self-empowerment victim-mentality Steve Maraboli
dda09f5 "I promise you that this isn't going to be our future, Kitten. I will give that to you--a normal life." Her eyes glistened. "I don't expect a normal life. I just expect a life with you" life live promise sweet Jennifer L. Armentrout
7f217f1 I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. life living John Green
8057660 Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have. fate life predetermination Kevin Brockmeier
07b7328 You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside. inner-strength life Lisa Kleypas
f0d1116 Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today. action belief beliefs believe choice choices decision future inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
e1207b0 It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you. inspirational life Lady Gaga
1c38102 When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace. grace inspirational life Patricia Briggs
70f5b46 The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. freedom global-oneness inspirational life love meditation miracles-of-life nonduality-yoga oneness oneness-with-life unity unity-consciousness yoga Amit Ray
766dd96 Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it. body denial life mind truth Sara Gruen
11b9a44 Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it. bullying ellen-degeneres hope inspirational life Ellen DeGeneres
e29d96c Be a true Heart, not a follower. inspirational life truth Ed Sheeran
f6546cd "the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter." bitterness bukowski death in-the-end individuality life love personality poem poetry self soul Charles Bukowski
b27b582 Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. inspirational life H. Jackson Brown Jr.
82d7906 People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. action courageous decision inspirational life motivational opinions people Steve Maraboli
6d7278e Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. happiness inspirational life rejection Steve Maraboli
edbc7e0 A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits. life success winner winning inspirational Napoleon Hill
dc74dad I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I'll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it's possible to be. I'm growing and I don't know how to grow. I'm living but I haven't started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it's like I'm not here in the world at all and I simply don't exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid. existence growing-up life David Almond
9b37174 It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments. life Christopher Paolini
02aeca1 The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. fate fear ignorance life order secrets self-determination superstition Cormac McCarthy
9ba820c God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest. courage death endurance joy life optimism steadfastness strength suicide Charlotte Brontë
86e9e9c For I am--or I was--one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all--a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named--but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey's bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well--by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion. life personality pride virtue world James Baldwin
1bfcd60 All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. goal-setting life planning successful-people wisdom Brian Tracy
128b110 Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake? authenticity being-yourself inspirational life Steve Maraboli
47b9985 Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you! flight flying flying-spirit grace graceful-attitude graceful-nature graceful-spirit inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life living wings C. JoyBell C.
2e2c254 You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom. life mindfulness peace Jon Kabat-Zinn
693347b You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up- city-of-glass isabelle-lightwood life mortal-instruments sacrifice war Cassandra Clare
61ccc84 Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. life Lisa Kleypas
7f03409 I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn't even feel it. And yet I believe you'll be sensible of a little gap. But you'd clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this --But oh my dear, I can't be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don't love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don't really resent it. life love Vita Sackville-West
99a495e Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. life love thelema inspirational Augustine of Hippo
7bbb275 Imagine others complexly. inspirational life philosophy wisdom inspiration John Green
482d4d5 But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. gay life love platonic-love relationships romance David Levithan
d80c128 The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to. life suicide work Walker Percy
2173247 The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy. life tragedy Arthur Schopenhauer
9c335e7 "Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help." -- inspirational life Laurie Halse Anderson
a3b4651 Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. life speech thought Hermann Hesse
c3975fe [I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii) life love place self-awareness self-knowledge yourself Sarah Ban Breathnach
30aa451 When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. being-yourself best-version happiness inspirational inspire life motivational success version Steve Maraboli
e3e7dbd Paper is more patient than man. life thoughts writing Anne Frank
411d424 I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. life nineteen road years Sylvia Plath
b039b71 Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? life love Yann Martel
b3afc7b Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. life philosophy relevance truth Edgar Allan Poe
217682b Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine. And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about. life Haruki Murakami
c6b6687 Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. life truth young Gabriel García Márquez
c173397 Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. education growing growth inspirational inspirational-quotes inspiring learning learning-process life life-and-living school-of-life teachings wealth wisdom wisdom-quotes C. JoyBell C.
8026b43 Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming future inspirational life David Bowie
f5eaac9 The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish. insight life life-lessons living motivation thought-provoking Chuck Palahniuk
42c2cd6 In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15). dark high joy kingsolver life love rebirth taught tide times tucson Barbara Kingsolver
c90b454 Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in someone's life. dedication inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking purpose Roy T. Bennett
dbca8d8 It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors! color conformism conformity difference differences freedom human humanism humanity inspiration inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life living race respect C. JoyBell C.
1f3b45b The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply. growth life pain Joseph Campbell
0165591 It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us. inspirational life human Laurell K. Hamilton
ec05072 Stop giving your life away to other people. accoun inspirational life self-empowerment Steve Maraboli
fbab88b We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living. life Stephen King
5dd53a7 We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. life risk Thomas Moore
283ff9a Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different. life paranormal-romance Laurell K Hamilton
af5309d Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for. life pain Jim Butcher
da3e6d7 Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. agreement-with-reality change inspirational life mindset motivational Steve Maraboli
2ce4c88 ?Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the 'same crap, different day' lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go. action carpe-diem choices inspirational life motivational new-day opportunities seize-the-day unique Steve Maraboli
3c8a7cc Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness. inspirational life motivational Robin S. Sharma
746c317 "The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them." life peace world Cassandra Clare
50e1bdf Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic. dreams friendship humor inspirational life Mindy Kaling
f89e702 Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy? death life madness Libba Bray
28158d8 Everything that happens before Death is what counts. life Ray Bradbury
2413350 I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was. keyes life sad Marian Keyes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 13 15 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ▲ ▼