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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5d6f549 | What's done is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything ahead, waiting for us." Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to forget thoughts of revenge." -- | alive complete done everything fin finished free future goodbyes real revenge thoughts time waiting wasted wasting-time | V.C. Andrews | |
| 46f5bce | Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. | death-and-dying death-of-a-loved-one grief grief-and-loss grief-and-loss-quotes grieve mortality pain pain-goes-away sadness truth truth-of-life | V.C. Andrews | |
| 1fe1e48 | The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. | Lois Lowry | ||
| a108b0a | Every form of strength is also a form of weakness," he once wrote. "Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say." | Michael Lewis | ||
| 4b0231f | The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work. | procrastination resistance | Steven Pressfield | |
| 16c601e | Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| e17564f | There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die." | fun life nature quiet stillness | Beryl Markham | |
| d4cc3da | A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 14a55e8 | Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do--what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What a woman--what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst? | John Eldredge | ||
| 4cbdc2d | He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist. | Jack London | ||
| 48afa7d | Love covers a multitude of sins... | louisa-may-alcott love sins | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 6fb65c5 | I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 506f47a | Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ad81700 | A word in earnest is as good as a speech. | Charles Dickens | ||
| a52fd44 | All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. | survival | Charles Dickens | |
| 7d3c58d | Oh no! My subconscious slams down her Complete Works of Charles Dickens, leaps up from her armchair, and puts her hands on her hips. | E.L. James | ||
| f7325eb | I begin to think,' said Estella, in a musing way, after another moment of calm wonder, 'that I almost understand how this comes about. If you had brought up your adopted daughter wholly in the dark confinement of these rooms, and had never let her know that there was such a thing as the daylight by which she has never once seen your face--if you had done that, and then, for a purpose, had wanted her to understand the daylight and know all a.. | Charles Dickens | ||
| a080522 | She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 13d3f9c | People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want to vomit--and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea | people vomit | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 48901f6 | Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly. | song | Frank Herbert | |
| 75a4b86 | Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is so.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| caaac2a | As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. | humor senses | Yann Martel | |
| f25a8a2 | It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for. | warning | Neal Stephenson | |
| 66c9ceb | That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 424c264 | The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 8a85024 | What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on the top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 05c6b88 | She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 80ad88f | Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just .. | doris kearns goodwin | ||
| c12546f | When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| c09d998 | To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness. | effectiveness | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 910fa69 | If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls. | Truman Capote | ||
| b987bd4 | I can't love you unless I give you up. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1eec8ea | The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost. | edith wharton | ||
| bd11d5f | They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. | Edith Wharton | ||
| b3c4eed | I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence. | preordained-existence | Douglas Adams | |
| 2ef8023 | Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e86f9ea | If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 0d60914 | The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with." | Douglas Adams | ||
| cb8785b | I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg. | Douglas Adams | ||
| db7f91c | And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan. - Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn | glory love sister | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| fd671aa | Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| dd2071d | There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man. | Herman Melville | ||
| 12c4561 | We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3c5c579 | Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise. | Anne Rice |