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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 795a3c7 | Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds. | spirituality life soul | David Mitchell | |
| 6a36293 | Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 06dfe32 | Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again. | love | John O'Donohue | |
| 9b7cce4 | Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim,.. | memories letting-go life-lessons life love not-letting-go | haruki murakami | |
| 6023ff2 | I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. | life maturity growing-up | Maya Angelou | |
| f7aa4eb | My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. | excellence | Charles Dickens | |
| 70ceae7 | The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. | Truman Capote | ||
| 0bf62e9 | Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago. | nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 325ffad | Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. | the-iliad homer | Homer | |
| b39147e | I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. | disillusionment | Oscar Wilde | |
| bfce5e8 | I am not the one of us who has no heart. | tessa-gray will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0975369 | And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you. | sex morality love | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 8adf6fc | The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0184a0b | They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. | humor inspirational same misattributed society different | Kurt Cobain | |
| fcaeaf2 | It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. | courage 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 mistakes | Roy T. Bennett | |
| dcf9753 | Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. | proactivity self-development expectations | Stephen R. Covey | |
| ce0e8b6 | beautiful insane in the rain | Jack Kerouac | ||
| dbe8a1c | Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life | travel | Jack Kerouac | |
| 7a3d4c2 | It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. | world love philosophy hermann-hesse respect | Hermann Hesse | |
| fa6d9c5 | Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy. | humor | Rachel Caine | |
| e185533 | Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this mome.. | suicide failed-attempt match gun | Susanna Kaysen | |
| 76e817c | But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. | laughter humor philosophy | Carl Sagan | |
| 7a60060 | I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace. | suicide grace despair | Hermann Hesse | |
| 0a369a3 | Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. | independence-of-thought tolerance voltaire thinking | Voltaire | |
| fac911f | Soon, the whole world would be searching for her--Linh Cinder. A deformed cyborg with a missing foot. A Lunar with a stolen identity. A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go. But they will be looking for a ghost. | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 8e1b6c3 | I'm going to talk to her." "And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her and say, 'Hey, I know you've never seen me before, but I'm your dad. Oh, and guess what? You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!" | vampire | J.R. Ward | |
| 15e509e | The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are... | snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7edb59d | That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. | humor wordplay | Dorothy Parker | |
| 358154c | The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. | inspirational | Frederick Buechner | |
| 5f86d1e | Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. | burroughs escape change inspirational | William S. Burroughs | |
| 4ce1bf6 | If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday." | Sylvia Plath | ||
| a03943e | There is no God and we are his prophets. | religion paraphrased | Cormac McCarthy | |
| fd4efde | Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. | dream near-death-experience | Emily Brontë | |
| 458395c | You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 3e7c07e | You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better. | Yann Martel | ||
| 73a3791 | Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f514075 | This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c6c4b52 | Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it. | depression life | Ned Vizzini | |
| 142d236 | Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. | writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| cdce901 | I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. | inspirational | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| e6528f0 | You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why.. | women self-worth | Toni Morrison | |
| 9f6922e | I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 8c1120e | Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| fca69b4 | I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you. | Nicholas Sparks |