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| 3fc1fe3 | And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." -- | madness cheshire-cat cats | Lewis Carroll | |
| 5c5aab5 | A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange suns rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for t.. | poetry freedom | Maya Angelou | |
| 5a412ea | We tell ourselves stories in order to live. | storytelling | Joan Didion | |
| 8ecdc5a | I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades,.. | humorous glib infenal-devices jam clockwork-angel tessa-gray will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| df0a150 | So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.' I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.' There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than fire.. | love | J.K. Rowling | |
| c18b641 | All great achievements require time. | motivation inspirational | Maya Angelou | |
| aad69d1 | According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul. But this is the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected G-tube that kept him alive, but not alive enough. I wiped his chin and g.. | John Green | ||
| 779f8af | I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 69cbe8f | The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat .. | indecisiveness conflict-resolution compromise judgement evil | Ayn Rand | |
| d8d77ed | Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. | life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 25461e3 | In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious. | wisdom schrodinger-s-cat quantum-physics | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2703ec6 | People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9932e76 | Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way. | j-k-rowling mcgonagall peeves poltergeist | J.K. Rowling | |
| 0d34d4b | Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry... | science geometry opinions physics | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 5ecfc23 | Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. | bradbury summer | Ray Bradbury | |
| 755a1cc | If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. | song-lyrics | Sylvia Plath | |
| 6b47495 | He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. | life the-road thoughtful | Cormac McCarthy | |
| a63c274 | I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9b0d9a3 | It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. | love | Tom Stoppard | |
| d3db829 | If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway. | Stephen King | ||
| 826a155 | Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed. | hope life disappointment expectations strategy | Patricia McCormick | |
| cc3f544 | Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. | love inspirational smile | Mother Teresa | |
| 9200b49 | When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| af50809 | You are in every line I have ever read. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 04ed330 | The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| db3d8bf | You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't. | Harper Lee | ||
| 62aaf56 | If other people do not understand our behavior--so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which us.. | understanding freedom life | Erich Fromm | |
| 9342ba0 | It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 53900f4 | You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael'. 'I knew Sammael'. 'The angel Gabriel did my hair'. It's like with biblical figures. | lilith jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| 046861c | It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 3b574ab | The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- | poetry love | Robert Frost | |
| 9b3bca5 | In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1f13a32 | If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only." -- | Louis Sachar | ||
| d2f7f7c | This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 530c749 | As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What's that?" Anna asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time." | tfios the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 07fddf9 | I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5998039 | Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, pru.. | infinite | Anaïs Nin | |
| e183f8c | Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. | life-and-learning inspirational-love-quotes people learning inspirational-quotes life-and-living love inspirational learning-the-truth belong inspirational-love belonging changing growing person | C. JoyBell C. | |
| e29c4e7 | A cup of tea would restore my normality. | Douglas Adams | ||
| cacb1a7 | I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy. | intelligence | J.D. Salinger | |
| 235f559 | I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 463df71 | We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 5c669b1 | I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 918b40d | One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. | Oscar Wilde |