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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 course domino fate world choice life inspirational monumental chain reaction stranger decision lives J.D. Stroube
d2a0e40 Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where--' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough. humor life Lewis Carroll
7aa65dc Deep rivers run quiet. life love shyness Haruki Murakami
4ccae6b No one escapes from life alive. life Michael Crichton
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-lessons life Elizabeth Gilbert
41f2aea He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. hopes dreams life inspirational aspirations Virginia Woolf
804f2d8 Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. life inspirational Annie Dillard
860dda3 Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. death life simulacra post-modernism end-of-the-world cinema armageddon 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 intelligence life idiots Orhan Pamuk
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. literature men women life scarlett-o-hara Margaret Mitchell
389797b Life did not stop, and one had to live. life inspirational Leo Tolstoy
da39a3e nature quailty freedom goodness choice beauty inspiration science darkness motivational hope intelligence life inspirational marie-lu intimate american-dream dedication watchmen meaning-of-life order hardship pure harmony evil Terry Pratchett
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 life inspirational ???? ?????
93bedf3 it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded. courage life inspirational Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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. literature reading life Ray Bradbury
3869ed6 Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine) hate life Cassandra Clare
03c11f6 Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational doing 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. self-knowledge true-to-yourself happiness life inspirational authenticity Steve Maraboli
82ad1ba Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes. labels letting-go motivational agreement-with-reality life inspirational changing 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." life love soulmates liberty 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. life inspirational 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 relationships life love inspirational beautiful 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
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. relationships life love inspirational David Levithan
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. perfection life something-wicked-this-way-comes perfect Ray Bradbury
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. life love inspirational 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. life inspirational Og Mandino
c3759d5 You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through. lessons life inspirational trials trouble Jonathan Anthony Burkett
7305ffa having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for. struggle poem poetry death strength life love bukowski stronger strength-through-adversity 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. metaphor life violin E.M. Forster
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. reading life readers writers Lloyd Alexander
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
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
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
093479f Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going. life inspirational scars David Rossi
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
1c2b954 The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. life inspirational Frances Willard
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. keep-your-mind-open open-your-mind mind opportunity meaning inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational living-life-to-the-fullest live-life-to-the-fullest Roy T. Bennett
e1504c3 You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. life inspirational H. L. Mencken
22ab1ae Create your own miracles; do what you think you cannot do. action inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational doing miracles 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. unity life siddhartha hesse being 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
3b49d78 Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore. happy life love inspirational amazing Chad Sugg
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
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 life inspirational adversity hard-times Nick Hornby
1f29cdc Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. war life truth solemn warrior George R.R. Martin
8f0f883 Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way. time death life Cassandra Clare
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. universe science life biology humans Bill Bryson
e50b4c0 I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite. personality life personal 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. poem independence poetry death sadness god life love bukowski goodbyes help goodbye forgetting forget sad 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. family life love alexander-lightwood shadowhunter malec magnus-bane infernal-devices mortal-instruments cassandra-clare Cassandra Clare
0d96a80 No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? action history destiny change motivational success life inspirational seize-the-day 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. life inspirational Claudia Gray
646ea3a But what is life if you don't live it? life inspirational James Patterson
01ed13c Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times. inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational trials-of-life adversity Roy T. Bennett
8d2df68 Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. life love louisa Louisa May Alcott
a273cb3 You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. (Matthew 5:14, The Message) light god life Anonymous
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. humor life humiliation Paul Murray
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. words reading books life language Henry David Thoreau
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 strength life inspirational P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
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? sadness life material Paulo Coelho
f63c8f2 And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. life Leo Tolstoy
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. life philosophy truth wisdom inspirational excellence critics Robert A. Heinlein
3c45816 Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. life harry-dresden Jim Butcher
7aea9d6 So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry travel life love awakening Jack Kerouac
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. life inspirational George Bernard Shaw
18159dc The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. life human-nature 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. people human life chemicals breakfast-of-champions kurt-vonnegut body ugly Kurt Vonnegut
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. world life van-helsing misery laugh Bram Stoker
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. literature life philosophy the-stranger albert-camus existentialism Albert Camus
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. religion life love philosophy lgbt Jeanette Winterson
0f59203 Life sucks, and then you die. Yeah, I should be so lucky. life twilight Stephenie Meyer
e185dd4 Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades lee-argus qoutes-to-live-by romance quote death life love inspirational Lee Argus
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
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 sex word-junkies feelings relationships beauty heartbreak life-lessons heart life love truth inspirational realist best heartache infatuation sentimental head mistakes lust Crystal Woods
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
7f217f1 I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. living life John Green
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" live life sweet promise Jennifer L. Armentrout
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 victim-mentality life inspirational self-empowerment drama Steve Maraboli
07b7328 You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside. life inner-strength Lisa Kleypas
1c38102 When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace. life inspirational grace 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. global-oneness miracles-of-life nonduality-yoga oneness-with-life unity-consciousness unity freedom life love inspirational oneness yoga meditation Amit Ray
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. life inspirational Lady Gaga
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 future choice leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational leader leaders beliefs believe belief decision choices Roy T. Bennett
766dd96 Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it. mind life truth denial body Sara Gruen
f6546cd "the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter." personality individuality poem poetry death life love in-the-end bukowski bitterness self soul Charles Bukowski
e29d96c Be a true Heart, not a follower. life truth inspirational Ed Sheeran
82d7906 People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. action people motivational life inspirational courageous opinions decision Steve Maraboli
11b9a44 Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it. ellen-degeneres hope life inspirational bullying Ellen DeGeneres
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. life inspirational H. Jackson Brown Jr.
edbc7e0 A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits. success life inspirational winner winning Napoleon Hill
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 self-determination fear life order ignorance superstition secrets 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. suicide courage joy death strength optimism life steadfastness endurance Charlotte Brontë
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 life growing-up David Almond
6d7278e Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. happiness life inspirational rejection Steve Maraboli
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
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. virtue personality world life pride 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. life wisdom successful-people goal-setting planning Brian Tracy
128b110 Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake? life inspirational being-yourself authenticity Steve Maraboli
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- war sacrifice life city-of-glass isabelle-lightwood mortal-instruments Cassandra Clare
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
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! graceful-attitude graceful-nature graceful-spirit flying-spirit inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes living life inspirational flying flight grace wings C. JoyBell C.
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 inspirational thelema Augustine of Hippo
7bbb275 Imagine others complexly. inspiration life philosophy wisdom inspirational 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. relationships romance life love platonic-love gay David Levithan
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. tragedy life Arthur Schopenhauer
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
9c335e7 "Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help." -- life inspirational Laurie Halse Anderson
30aa451 When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. best-version version inspire motivational success happiness life inspirational being-yourself Steve Maraboli
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. suicide work life Walker Percy
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) self-knowledge self-awareness life love place yourself Sarah Ban Breathnach
e3e7dbd Paper is more patient than man. thoughts writing life 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 road nineteen 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
8026b43 Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming future life inspirational David Bowie
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. wealth learning inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspiring education life wisdom inspirational school-of-life learning-process growing teachings wisdom-quotes growth C. JoyBell C.
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
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 truth relevance 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
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. living motivation life-lessons life thought-provoking insight 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). tucson dark joy life love tide times taught kingsolver rebirth high Barbara Kingsolver
1f3b45b The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply. pain life growth Joseph Campbell
fbab88b We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living. life Stephen King
0165591 It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us. human life inspirational Laurell K. Hamilton
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 humanism freedom human humanity inspiration inspirational-life inspirational-quotes living life inspirational differences conformity difference race respect C. JoyBell C.
ec05072 Stop giving your life away to other people. accoun life inspirational self-empowerment Steve Maraboli
c90b454 Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in someone's life. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational dedication purpose Roy T. Bennett
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. risk life Thomas Moore
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. pain life Jim Butcher
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 new-day opportunities motivational life inspirational seize-the-day carpe-diem unique choices Steve Maraboli
283ff9a Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different. life paranormal-romance Laurell K Hamilton
da3e6d7 Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it. change motivational agreement-with-reality life inspirational mindset Steve Maraboli
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." world life peace Cassandra Clare
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. motivational life inspirational Robin S. Sharma
f89e702 Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy? madness death life Libba Bray
28158d8 Everything that happens before Death is what counts. life Ray Bradbury
50e1bdf Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic. dreams friendship humor life inspirational Mindy Kaling
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. life keyes sad Marian Keyes
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