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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc4de30 | It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you. | childhood-dream inspirational | Randy Pausch | |
| cc98d67 | You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass." | orc guardianship gandalf | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 991cc28 | I missed you," he said quietly, his gaze darting between her mouth and eyes. "When I was in Wendlyn. I lied when I said I didn't. From the moment you left, I missed you so much I went out of my mind. I was glad for the excuse to track Lorcan here, just to see you again. And tonight, when he had that knife at your throat ..." The warmth of his callused finger bloomed through her as he traced a path over the cut on her neck. "I kept thinking .. | celeana-sardothien rowan-whitethorn queen-of-shadows sarah-j-maas | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 4fbb061 | I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6488112 | Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. | self-control | William Blake | |
| 56075e6 | One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. | feminism women inspirational legendary historical | Joan of Arc | |
| 6bcee17 | We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by nightmares. But we had forgotten that alongside 's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: 's Brave New World. Contrary to common beli.. | aldous-huxley fear huxley brave-new-world orwell george-orwell desire | Neil Postman | |
| bbe7bf3 | A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 17182d7 | Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 41aae8a | The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. | words | Markus Zusak | |
| a3479f0 | Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 39cb4cf | Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others b.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 38298ee | Okay, okay." I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it's right over my heart. "Feel my heartbeat. Can you feel it?" "Yes." "Feel how steady it is?" "It's fast." "Yes, well, that has nothing to do with the box." I wince as soon as I'm done speaking. I just admitted to something. Hopefully he doesn't realize that." | tris tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| fdb4d27 | How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure. | prison prison-escape | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 12bbaa1 | First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 154dbdd | Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2f8b012 | Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 54aa3bc | If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected . | war tactics security strategy | Sun Tzu | |
| 6adf8cf | I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| d5fc5c6 | What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done. | rewriting-history belief sherlock-holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 00aa7cd | there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst. | preparedness | Stephen King | |
| 2254ea9 | You sneaked into my cabin?" Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Percy, you'll be seventeen in two months. You can't seriously be worried about getting in trouble with Coach Hedge." "Uh, have you seen his baseball bat?" "Besides, Seaweed Brain, I just thought we could take a walk. We haven't had any time to be together alone. I want to show you something--my favorite place aboard the ship." Percy's pulse was still in overdrive, but it wasn't from fea.. | romance humor sneaking-out coach-hedge heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| 79c3440 | I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. | inspirational | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| f08ceaa | Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever. | writing | Sylvia Plath | |
| 2ceb89b | Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella. | jealousy jacob-black love-triangle | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 42fa93c | Each time you happen to me all over again. | love | Edith Wharton | |
| 8f6be58 | There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. | reality past denial impossible logic | Douglas Adams | |
| bc7c227 | Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched." | harry-potter puns | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9cc6e03 | Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. | inspirational | St. Francis Of Assisi | |
| daa1859 | Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f03a744 | Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. | earth humour unfashionable watches primitive cosmology galaxy digital perspective | Douglas Adams | |
| 154eca8 | He liked her; it was as simple as that. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0809d41 | Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 0229d52 | Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time. | mortality humor patience | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1dfd1f5 | One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 55a3893 | I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say 'I'm bored. | bored reprimand inspirational boredom advice young | Louis C.K. | |
| 20753ca | Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved. | inspirational | Victor Hugo | |
| efbb89a | We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push .. | excess | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 09849c2 | I didn't tell you this because I'm sure you would've changed your mind about the dress." "What?" I frowned. "Does it make my butt look big?" She laughed. "No. You looked stunning in it." "Then what's the deal?" Her smile turned downright mischievous. "Oh, you know, just that the color red is Daemon's favorite." | dee katy sneaky | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| d3e1702 | Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find. | young-adult | Libba Bray | |
| d7477bd | Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions. | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| adfd399 | The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to hav.. | funny humor death-eaters muggle-born muggles wizards | J.K. Rowling | |
| 0d200f4 | Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought. | equality women inspirational race | Kathryn Stockett | |
| a83e5ef | Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you! | action destiny change empowerment motivational success life inspirational mistakes | Steve Maraboli |