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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 639c1a2 | There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you. | inspirational being-yourself authenticity beautiful | Steve Maraboli | |
| 4eeb926 | Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later. Then he finds out. Then his dick falls off. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4dcc444 | When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. | writing true-to-life skill characters | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 3d6793e | Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whol.. | relationships | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3d41f0e | I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose. | Alice Walker | ||
| 7405eb1 | It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. | Anne Lamott | ||
| add1489 | I meant what I said and I said what I meant. | honesty faithfulness | Dr. Seuss | |
| ebbe469 | Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. | work inspirational play | Louisa May Alcott | |
| dd11973 | I do not know everything; still many things I understand. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 29e7ea9 | The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. | Yann Martel | ||
| f50b50f | When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7d7fe9f | I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 3f31d7a | I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. | skepticism | Sam Harris | |
| 29e7462 | I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped. | dying | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| ed40fc2 | Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 8e7d317 | Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. | Mary Oliver | ||
| ad07d22 | Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you [Matthew 7:1-2] | scripture judge judgemental | Anonymous | |
| 8017ee5 | When in doubt, choose to live. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bc93b11 | We dance round in a ring and suppose | inspirational | Robert Frost | |
| 23a4712 | When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. | success inspirational taking-risks risks failure | Ellen DeGeneres | |
| 33d3443 | God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1a39056 | Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 07f089b | I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love. | wonder | Alice Walker | |
| 79d755a | I am too pure for you or anyone. From the poem "Fever 103deg", 20 October 1962" | Sylvia Plath | ||
| e7ddada | It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can't think of anything better. It's just as when one has be.. | satisfaction love | Henry James | |
| b0b70a4 | People are only mean when they are threatened. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 3110658 | Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 15a138c | If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. | reason | leo tolstoy | |
| a08651b | Can you think what the Mirror of Erised shows us all?" Harry shook his head. "Let me explain. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help." Harry thought. Then he said slowly, "It shows us what we want... whatever we want..." "Yes and no," said Dumbledore quietly. "It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest.. | harry-potter mirror-of-erised invisibility-cloak james lily ron-weasley mother father | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8b9771e | But they were not living, thought Harry: They were gone. The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents' moldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing. And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off or pretending? He let them fall, his lips pressed hard together, looking down at the thick snow hiding from his eyes the p.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 20bbbc1 | Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| a430793 | Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that...which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's .. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 80f1cb4 | I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. | reading | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 655b9c1 | Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company. | Milan Kundera | ||
| d7bb351 | Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 07f5b70 | Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it. | men | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 74e2fd1 | Amazing," Edward muttered. "How can someone so tiny be so annoying?" Alice laughed. "It's a talent." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9c9f80a | Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. | reading writing learning inspirational devotion | Eudora Welty | |
| afbecf4 | They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 9deaf17 | When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. | false-promises falsehood elections deception government seduction tyranny deceit power evil | Euripides | |
| 34546ea | In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b9ada85 | Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a15b09e | I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 70ab1bc | Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civiliza.. | libraries history education wisdom civilization knowledge | Carl Sagan |