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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2a71c33 | It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. | accomplishment inspirational achievement misattributed recognition modesty | Harry S. Truman | |
| 2d29367 | Remember, the enemy's gate is down. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 7294db8 | I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 78bae98 | There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again. | heartbreak love narrative moment | Douglas Adams | |
| 6d9f897 | If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. | pain endurance | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 1c1072a | The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. | John Green | ||
| d4d02f1 | He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I'm afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. 'Is this scaring you, Tris?' 'No,' I croak. I clear my throat. 'Not really. I'm only...afraid of what I want.' 'What do you want?' Then his face tightens. 'Me?' Slowly I nod. | four tris tobias veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| 17f15bb | We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. | bravery passion courage inspirational indiviuality here-and-now commitment carpe-diem | Che Guevara | |
| 0b7a1a2 | What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| c8836cd | I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 5688d7a | There is truth in wine and children | Plato | ||
| 4536aaa | I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood. | sarcastic sarcasm | J.D. Salinger | |
| 225b704 | I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark. | trust | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 6fa5833 | We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple. | Harper Lee | ||
| a9b5f2a | You know," Cecily said, "you really didn't have to throw that man through the window." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c25ae41 | Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy--this boy!--knows nothin' abou'--about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. "I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff." | humor ignorance math | J.K. Rowling | |
| b1ecb08 | Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder. | valek | Maria V. Snyder | |
| cbccdf2 | Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. | the-bell-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| 720d796 | Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. | joy companionship | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 7ef5dff | It 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 date. | love | David Levithan | |
| 0ec3ccf | You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the .. | wounds the-past | Iyanla Vanzant | |
| b78ded5 | Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. | equality reading horror | Clive Barker | |
| e8e0dea | Humankind cannot bear very much reality. | reality | T. S. Eliot | |
| 97c8348 | I'm a cynical idealist. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 4424beb | The greatest victory is that which requires no battle. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 996524f | I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. | inspirational | Anaïs Nin | |
| 43ccf31 | When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I co.. | fulfilling-your-potential goodbye-cinderella personal-fulfillment personal-limits soaring your-full-potential freedom learning inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life inspirational achievement cinderella living-life fulfillment changing growing flying potential breaking-free self-growth self-discovery limits waiting running | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 709b77e | The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind. | Robert Jordan | ||
| f89f112 | You look . . . better than before." Was that a compliment? I could have sworn Lucien gave Tamlin an encouraging nod. "And you hair is . . . clean." | tamlin | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 06197bd | I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived." | misery | Neil Gaiman | |
| 7b68072 | A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. | criticism inspirational | Will Self | |
| 43dfd3e | Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could." | killing magic honor | Susanna Clarke | |
| 7e6d26c | Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?" "Sorry, George, dear." "Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went." | humor twins | J.K. Rowling | |
| 0aafc24 | Annabeth gripped the hilt of her dagger. "A bounty on our heads . . . as if we didn't attract enough monsters already." "Do we get WANTED posters?" Leo asked. "And do they have our bounties, like, broken down on a price list?" Hazel wrinkled her nose. " are you talking about?" "Just wondering how much I'm going for these days," Leo said. "I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe . . . but am I worth, like, two .. | bounty percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena frank-zhang jason-grace hazel-levesque the-heroes-of-olympus leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 78255ab | Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?" "Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?" "Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me." "I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here.. | percy-jackson nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| e29a071 | Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 882131b | He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. | politics politicians ignorance | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 6f2bdea | The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. | Dan Brown | ||
| 33c4002 | You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. | revolution | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| dec6330 | each man's hell is in a different place: | charles bukowski | ||
| 38382ef | I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see. | José Saramago | ||
| 4865760 | When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; whe.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 2189bc0 | I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose. | humor divergent blood | Veronica Roth | |
| 8c3ecbb | It was not, after all, so easy to die. | harry-potter hallows | J.K. Rowling |