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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f39239b | Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow. | affirmations author c-toni-graham commitment inspirational ya-author | C.Toni Graham | |
| c3c457a | No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. | philosophy | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 5ac14f8 | I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. | inspirational | Jon Krakauer | |
| 8604075 | Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3b8de34 | anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him more by more when by now and tree by leaf she laughed his.. | E. E. Cummings | ||
| dbfb9f8 | Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. | dislikes racism religion scepticism stupidity superstition | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9f3ef07 | He's not feeling well," Clary said, catching at Simon's wrist. "We're going." "No," Simon said. "No, I -- I need to talk to him. To the Inquisitor." Robert reached into his jacket and drew out a crucifix. Clary stared in shock as he held it up between himself and Simon. "I speak to the Night's Children Council representative, or to the head of the New York clan," he said. "Not to any vampire who comes to knock at my door --" Simon reache.. | humor robert simon vampire | Cassandra Clare | |
| a453b1f | Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?" "Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club. "Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. .. | tyson zeus | Rick Riordan | |
| 81001bc | I've come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power. | confidence inspirational life music power spiritual truth work | Jason Mraz | |
| a77e8d0 | Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak. | inspirational love | Margaret Weis | |
| 6a4e373 | 7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Importan | care gratitude inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leadership life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes listening living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking respect show-you-care | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 53cae60 | The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. | inspirational justice mlk | Theodore Parker | |
| 43ecc0e | I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. | inspirational | Libba Bray | |
| 9ff1e1d | A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c86ab6b | You -- you strange -- you almost unearthly thing! -- I love as my own flesh. You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 3eb0213 | Things are always better in the morning. | renewal | Harper Lee | |
| 7b89704 | There was a girl, and her uncle sold her. Put like that it seems so simple. No man, proclaimed Donne, is an island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being w.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 864606b | She smiled at him. "How did you know just what I'd want to see?" "How could I not?" he said. "When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand." He looked away from her as he said it, but not before she caught the slight flush on his cheekbones. He was so pale, he could never hide even the least blush, she thought -- and was surprised how affectionate the thought was." | jem-carstairs tessa-gray | Cassandra Clare | |
| 390cb7a | I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain | the-infernal-devices | Cassandra Clare | |
| fc0c8c6 | How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said. | John Green | ||
| 04b8a90 | Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! | year | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| afd65f1 | It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. | inspirational love optimism possibilities | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 176d076 | If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it. | inspirational | Muhammad Ali | |
| 5aa1d26 | A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 0b3fd24 | We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| be3aae1 | If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next. | Michael Ende | ||
| d6557f9 | When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots? | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 68022a9 | Will pointed a finger accusingly in their direction. "You're ganging up on me. Is this how it's going to be from now on? I'll be the odd man out? Dear God, I'll have to befriend Jessamine." "Jessamine can't stand you," Jem pointed out. "Henry, then." "Henry will set you on fire." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2cc0d66 | Because memories fall apart, too. And you're left with nothing. | John Green | ||
| 7072024 | I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be." -- | harry-potter humor luna-lovegood stun | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8bac1e2 | Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads. | brisingr humor mockery | Christopher Paolini | |
| f79d87d | Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool." | humor leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| b0f4b37 | It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them. | loneliness philosophy | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 00695a9 | Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 4b606ff | I? I walk alone; The midnight street Spins itself from under my feet; My eyes shut These dreaming houses all snuff out; Through a whim of mine Over gables the moon's celestial onion Hangs high. I Make houses shrink And trees diminish By going far; my look's leash Dangles the puppet-people Who, unaware how they dwindle, Laugh, kiss, get drunk, Nor guess that if I choose to blink They die. I When in good humour, Give grass its green Blazon sk.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 3d0c169 | I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. | Arthur Golden | ||
| dd5fb7a | The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| cc9e5d0 | So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. | writing | Virginia Woolf | |
| aff193d | I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends. | hiccup hobbes humor | Bill Watterson | |
| bf5d60c | I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. | empathy | Walt Whitman | |
| cb06671 | Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism. | skepticism suffering | Albert Camus | |
| 54b5b57 | You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?' 'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX. | death hells-angels humor | Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett | |
| 6b0a0c3 | I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you'r.. | John Green | ||
| 62ab365 | I? I walk alone; The midnight street Spins itself from under my feet; My eyes shut These dreaming houses all snuff out; Through a whim of mine Over gables the moon's celestial onion Hangs high. I Make houses shrink And trees diminish By going far; my look's leash Dangles the puppet-people Who, unaware how they dwindle, Laugh, kiss, get drunk, Nor guess that if I choose to blink They die. I When in good humour, Give grass its green Blazon sk.. | Sylvia Plath |