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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 472b461 | Don't give up on your own happy-evers. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 09d8ee6 | People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. | marriage marriage-preparation relationships-advice failure-relationship marriage-life | Gary Chapman | |
| 5e9c26b | Hardly. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. | Dan Brown | ||
| ec19b82 | Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?" Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second." | Dan Brown | ||
| cf890f4 | Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way. | porcelain turned-into used-to-be changed made doll fragile obstacles steel fair she wants gone someone fragility | V.C. Andrews | |
| 76239f2 | The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind. | mind success life limitation | Napoleon Hill | |
| 646556e | Maturity is produced through relationships and community. | Rick Warren | ||
| eaa028c | Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make. | Rick Warren | ||
| e481755 | I'm in a castle standing in a tower, looking down through a window at the beautiful garden, the sun setting in the distance. The beauty in the moment brings tears to my eyes. Sky blue pink, the backdrop for roses in ever color blooming in the garden. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 8f57157 | I'm leaving!" she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve. But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, "I'm following." And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the entire way home." -- | Julia Quinn | ||
| a96fda8 | sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can't quite explain. Sometimes it's just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 043939d | Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet" | Julia Quinn | ||
| b8c416b | Everyone has secrets. Especially me. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 5f1505a | No. really, what was the point? She could hardly top Version Fifteen, which had featured both vivisection and wild boar. | Julia Quinn | ||
| d66a576 | Resistance by definition is self-sabotage. | self-sabotage | Steven Pressfield | |
| 9c0b766 | I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose. | crayons | James Frey | |
| 13fa7e6 | I think men who can cry are strong men | James Frey | ||
| c689da4 | They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true. | James Frey | ||
| 8e5b5af | I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his arms. I am a Criminal and he is a Judge and I am white and he is black, but at this moment none of that matters. He is a man who needs a friends and I can be his friend. | james-frey | James Frey | |
| d73c1d2 | Today, for the mass of humanity, science and technology embody 'miracle, mystery, and authority'. Science promises that the most ancient human fantasies will at last be realized. Sickness and ageing will be abolished; scarcity and poverty will be no more; the species will become immortal. Like Christianity in the past, the modern cult of science lives on the hope of miracles. But to think that science can transform the human lot is to belie.. | John Gray | ||
| 00b681e | Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote to nihilism. Without the hope that the future will be better than the past, they could not go on. | John Gray | ||
| ee10eca | If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is. | love thonolan | Jean M. Auel | |
| ca53fcd | The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out. | privacy introversion | Anne Carson | |
| effe4e6 | Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour o.. | Euripides | ||
| e1f434c | I understand too well the dreadful act I'm going to commit, but my judgement can't check my anger, and that incites the greatest evils human beings do. | Euripides | ||
| 1e4b42d | There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a leisurely lifetime. Whoever writes a new one can afford a certain complacency in the knowledge that his is a new picture agreeing with no one else's, but likely to be haugthily disagreed with by all those who believed in some other Africa. ... Being thus all things to all authors, it follows, I suppose, that Africa must be all thin.. | Beryl Markham | ||
| afaf963 | It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 37826da | limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. | Jack London | ||
| 65e79dc | A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| dc20924 | If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it... | louisa-may-alcott little-women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 4847bd5 | I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To have a happy youth, to be well and wisely married, and to lead useful, pleasant lives, with as little care and sorrow to try them as God sees fit to send. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman, and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience. It is natural to think of.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8bab417 | We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~ | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 11b1822 | Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the white foam rises high, And sturdily wash, and rinse, and wring, And fasten the clothes to dry; Then out in the free fresh air they swing, Under the sunny sky. I wish we could wash from our hearts and our souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make Ourselves as pure as they; Then on the earth there would be indeed A glorious washing-day! Along the path of a useful .. | purity | Louisa May Alcott | |
| a116c50 | I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 90d2280 | If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! | malediction | Charles Dickens | |
| dfddfb7 | Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief." | sorrow trial | Charles Dickens | |
| a22aff2 | A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars. | passion | Charles Dickens | |
| 4e1cf18 | A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe. | fremen-saying | Frank Herbert | |
| 0ff6cd6 | The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge. | survivalism softness luxury weakness paradise | Frank Herbert | |
| 485837e | All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| c0cb5ea | Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 024d421 | The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder -- its DNA -- Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| e897a4f | Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 33b924d | I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. | Raymond Chandler |