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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 134017c | A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. | myth feminism feminist diet fad control food obedience | Naomi Wolf | |
| c88bebb | I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. | philippians-4-13 | Anonymous | |
| 7302044 | Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream | shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 3a207bb | If you can't you must, and if you must you can. | inspirational | Anthony Robbins | |
| 4856519 | inspirational | ???? ?? ???? ???? ???????? | ||
| 09e14b5 | You're not dying," he said. "How do you know?" His eyes latched onto mine. "Because I'd never let that happen." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 52b0028 | You and that damn pen." "You love it." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 68027cb | I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down." [ , August 8, 1839]" | reading great-writing good-books | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| b0f560b | It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally. | poetry womanhood | Maya Angelou | |
| ac79e97 | And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise. | frodo west | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9dd940c | I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything. | life | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 791b8a3 | but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging. | suffering | Paulo Coelho | |
| 9960480 | Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 1c56b4d | My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid." | fantasy-young-adult empowerment inspirational throne-of-glass fierce motto | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b2854c8 | There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. | marriage friendship home | Homer | |
| d453646 | A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension. I was sorry of the man who, it seemed to me, was forced to hover about the edges of science. He was compelled to shiver endlessly in the outskirts, getting only feeble warmth from the distant sun of science- in-progress; while I, just beginning m.. | discovery science historian-of-science history-of-science fallacy research horror isaac-newton newton | Isaac Asimov | |
| d8d984d | Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. | inspirational classics | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 61c44e5 | There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 0381fc7 | So wise so young, they say, do never live long. | youth wisdom | William Shakespeare | |
| 94e279c | Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7b86410 | I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come. | the-bell-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| 06146bd | So," I said. "Seems you're going to be stuck with me for a while." He smiled. A real smile that lit up his whole face. "Good," | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 1ac52b5 | The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. | habits | Albert Camus | |
| d90ada9 | I hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e24ecbc | If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. | want pain heart still get suffer | Dan Millman | |
| ad6e764 | I've been thinking about you constantly since I left, wondering why the journey I'm on seemed to have led through you. I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's how I think of it now. I belong with you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 05657af | Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something. | inspirational goals | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| e1ff881 | When they bombed Hiroshima, the explosion formed a mini-supernova, so every living animal, human or plant that received direct contact with the rays from that sun was instantly turned to ash. And what was left of the city soon followed. The long-lasting damage of nuclear radiation caused an entire city and its population to turn into powder. When I was born, my mom says I looked around the whole hospital room with a stare that said, "This.. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 8944b4a | I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 8c5d918 | Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity | war analogy disapproval paradox pacifism motto | Stephen King | |
| 77cda00 | For a day, just for one day, Talk about that which disturbs no one And bring some peace into your Beautiful eyes. | life peace | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez | |
| f56fd3e | First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. | inspirational | Ray Bradbury | |
| 1c45a3a | It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 6728106 | What's your deal?" I asked in the hallway after class. "I know you did that." He shrugged. "So?" ... "That was rude, Daemon. You embarrassed him." ... "And I thought using your ... stuff would draw here?" ... "That was barley a blip on the map. That didn't even leave a trace on anyone." He lowered his head until the edges of his dark curled brushed my cheek. I was caught between wanting to crawl into my locker or crawl into him. "Besid.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f563867 | So I was thinking, there're eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds in a day, right? There're one thousand, four hundred and forty minutes in a day...There're one hundred and sixty-eight hours in a week. Around eighty-seven hundred and then some hours in a year, and you know what?...I want to spend every second, every minute, every hour with you...I want a year's worth of seconds and minutes with you. I want a decade's worth of hours, so .. | lux-series origin | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| dba571c | Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature. | scepticism weakness zombie | Max Brooks | |
| e3ed06b | Physical love is unthinkable without violence. | violence relationships romance | Milan Kundera | |
| d4c049a | The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel. | heart feeling deeds | C.S. Lewis | |
| 7c7daa4 | A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. | illusion intelligence self-deception ignorance | Saul Bellow | |
| f73893d | I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 22c16ac | I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. | Harold Pinter | ||
| 956c997 | I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. | love | Graham Greene | |
| ed7e414 | Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist. | Robert Greene | ||
| f4e9c65 | Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'. | Harper Lee |