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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bf473f2 | When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 3884d17 | Has anybody ever told you you're an evil woman?" -Reece "Who, me?" -Erin "Yes, you." -Reece "Li'l ole me?" -Erin "Sadistic goddess you, yes." -Reece "Do you want me to stop?" -Erin "Do you want me to hold you down and bang you like a screen door?" -Reece | Angela Knight | ||
| c411d05 | C'mon, Amy, cinnamon rolls are calling us." Dan put a hand to his ear. "Do you hear? 'Amy? Dan?'" he squeaked. "'Come and get my sugary, sticky goodness!" | dan-and-amy-cahill the39clues | Jude Watson | |
| ffdb6ef | As Gracian said, "The truth is generally seen, rarely heard." | Robert Greene | ||
| e5476af | To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through political connections or easy formulas, or depend on our natural talents, we move against this grain and reverse our natural powers. We become slaves to time - as it passes, we grow weaker, less capable, trapped in some dead end career. We become captive to the opinions and fears of others." (9) "This intense connection and desires allows them t.. | success hardwork | Robert Greene | |
| 368ef35 | I will either find a way, or make one. | Kate Elliott | ||
| 45846ba | Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. | truth society | Sherwood Smith | |
| 45ca152 | The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is waged on our knees. When we don't pray, it's like sitting on the sidelines watching those we love and care about scrambling through a war zone, getting shot at from every angle. When we do pray, however, we're in the battle alongside them, approaching God's power on their behalf. If we also declare the.. | inspirational | Stormie Omartian | |
| 5e8db66 | I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the r.. | religion | Dennis Lehane | |
| ecd168b | George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go. | truth truth-inspirational | Mira Grant | |
| 5f48364 | I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative." "I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said. "Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either." | William Goldman | ||
| cd77fb0 | You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me." | William Goldman | ||
| ff93b94 | She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone. | Mario Puzo | ||
| e5ba199 | Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you. | dan-humphrey gossip-girl | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 8bda5a8 | What business does memory have with time? | time memory | Jess Walter | |
| 21cad41 | Lonely children probably wrote the Bible. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| e272f68 | Events become feelings, feelings become events | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 69b9310 | He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips. | happy milkweed warsaw | Jerry Spinelli | |
| c5707e6 | It's okay to be discouraged. It's not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you've decided to lay siege to in your own life--that's persistence. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e9bd460 | We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. | Charles Darwin | ||
| 7d8eb44 | I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative .. | philosophy romantics | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| eac9d8e | The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 7b7b881 | summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape. | Harper Lee | ||
| a18aad8 | Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping. | Joe Meno | ||
| f8a3832 | What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| fdf5f24 | Let's grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon? To the unaided eye the brightest stars are more than a hundred times brighter than the dimmest. So the dim ones are obviously a hundred times farther away from Earth, aren't they? Nope. That simple argument boldly assumes that all stars are intrinsically equally luminous, automatically making the near ones brighter than the far ones. Stars, .. | physics | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 7225e84 | In the beginning, there was physics. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 028e464 | Travel was once a means of being elsewhere, or of being nowhere. Today it is the only way we have of feeling that we are somewhere. At home, surrounded by information, by screens, I am no longer anywhere, but rather everywhere in the world at once, in the midst of a universal banality - a banality that is the same in every country. To arrive in a new city, or in a new language, is suddenly to find oneself here and nowhere else. The body red.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| bb52ccc | Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? | miroku inuyasha kagome rumiko takahashi my bear child manga | Rumiko Takahashi | |
| 64dd645 | Turn back, turn back,thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not abide. For here do evil things betide. | Grimm Jacob And Wilhelm | ||
| 4d52da6 | I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes." -- | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 89fc524 | Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert. | Tony Hawk | ||
| d347ace | The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding. | Alain de Botton | ||
| c659c01 | Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 066131f | It's profoundly counter-intuitive for us to think of ourselves as mad. We seem so normal and mostly so good - to ourselves. It's everyone else who is out of step... And yet maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness. If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun. | Alain de Botton | ||
| c97815c | Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 9b6ccd0 | There is no one more likely to destroy us than the person we marry. | marry | Alain de Botton | |
| 6e25dd3 | Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are. Our selves could be compared to an amoeba, whose outer walls are elastic, and therefore adapt to the environment. It is not that the amoeba has no dimensions, simply that it has no self-defined shape. It is my absurdist side that an absurdist person will draw out of me, and my seriousness that a serious person will evoke. If someone think.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 0bc59ae | Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons, and lose our living hold on the present. Sometimes we think if we could just go back in time we would be happy. But anyone who attempts to reenter the past is sure to be disappointed. Anyone who has ever revisited the place of his birth after years of absence is shocked by the dif.. | James McBride | ||
| 6ae7824 | They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 9b5f84c | I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to! | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 513a7c7 | It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. | Emily Giffin | ||
| fdfd5c5 | A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. | mysticism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f9fefce | The prince's robes and beggar's rags, Are toadstools on the miser's bags. A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent | William Blake |