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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 76c1a96 | There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 773db10 | I've been thinking Hobbes | Bill Watterson | ||
| 1fd6a9e | I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. Maybe January light will consume My heart with its cruel Ray, stealing my key to true calm. In this part o.. | Pablo Neruda | ||
| 48eb648 | Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him.. | mania | Stephen King | |
| 9f63013 | I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. | John Green | ||
| 6b39cae | There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. | muhammad-pbuh islam | Anonymous | |
| fcfbb9a | Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie. | Rick Riordan | ||
| bff98bb | Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4362840 | When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. | artistic music inspirational power-of-music | HENRY DAVID THOREAU | |
| 743d1e1 | There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. | words greatness control power | Orson Scott Card | |
| 5ddf1e8 | Have you ever had that feeling--that you'd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a90547d | It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do. | life | Anne Lamott | |
| a342dfa | It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal. | relationships | John Grogan | |
| 561a3c3 | And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! | pain love wuthering-heights | Emily Brontë | |
| a9c510c | We weren't ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves - surprise! - we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 63e539b | His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. | tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 593c7a5 | Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d9eb00b | Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together. | romantic inspirational poetic beautiful | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 914ea7d | Nothing in this world happens by chance | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6b8f10a | I'm not ill like that," she groaned. He sat on her bed, peeling back the blanket. A servant entered, frowning at the mess on the floor, and shouted for help. "Then it what way?" "I,uh..." Her face was so hot she thought it would melt onto the floor. Oh you idiot. "My monthly cycles finally came back!" His face suddenly matched hers and he stepped away, dragging his hand through his short hair. "I-if...Then I'll take my leave," he stammered,.. | captain-of-the-guard monthly-cycles sarah-j-mass chaol chaolaena chaol-westfall celaena celaena-sardothien sweet | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 081db83 | You will find, Rolfe, that one does not deal with Celaena Sardothien. One survives her | empire-of-storms dorian celaena-sardothien | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d92dd39 | I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. | mermaid observation singing | T.S. Eliot | |
| 5fc1809 | Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. | Stephen King | ||
| e02fea2 | If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya" | humor bark gendry help stupid dog | George R.R. Martin | |
| 1fc8178 | You stood up to the dragon so Beckendorf would have his chance to jump - now was brave." "Or pretty stupid." "Percy, you're a brave guy," she said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?" | percy-jackson beckendorf compliment | Rick Riordan | |
| 98d7ae6 | We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2cc133e | You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled. | humor inspirational | Ellen DeGeneres | |
| cfcec8d | God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful... | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d0f3aea | Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing-- turn your toes out when you walk--- And remember who you are! | humor alice-in-wonderland french remember lewis-carroll | Lewis Carroll | |
| 1b1afe8 | I choose ," he said very softly, " ." Then his hard, rough hand tenderly cuppoed my chin, and suddenly his mouth was on mine, and every synapse in my brain shorted out. We had kissed a couple of times before, but this was different. This time, I squelched my immediate, overwhelming desire to run away screaming. I closed my eyes and put my arms around him despite my fear. Then somehow we slid sideways so we were lying in the cool sand. I wa.. | kiss faxness maximum-ride james-patterson max | James Patterson | |
| 2bce738 | Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims. | Yann Martel | ||
| cb4c40d | Celaena shuddered. "This conversation's become far too awful to have after eating." she said, slumping against the pillows. "Tell me which one of your little cadre is the handsomest, and if he would fancy me." Rowan choked. "The thought of you with any of my companions makes my blood run cold." "They're that awful? Your kitty-cat friend looked decent enough." Rowan's brows rose high. "I don't think my kitty-cat friend would know what to do.. | rowan-whitethorn heir-of-fire | Sarah J. Maas | |
| dab7875 | I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes." | stars wwii | Markus Zusak | |
| f94c0b2 | Let us cultivate our garden. | Voltaire | ||
| 6ebc3f9 | No more rhymes now I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?" "AAHH!" | rhymes | William Goldman | |
| af25705 | It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you. | Marissa Meyer | ||
| 3c06979 | He was the fantasy of every girl in the country. He was so far out of realm, her world, that she should have stopped thinking about him the second the door had closed. Should stop thinking about him immediately. Should never think about him again, except maybe as a client--and her prince. And yet, the memory of his fingers against her skin refused to fade. | marissa-meyer | Marissa Meyer | |
| a141560 | It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 38ced71 | A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 8a80b63 | Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them.. | love | Norman Maclean | |
| 4e9db66 | Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. | science god noremorse atheist | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 0a4d0af | In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 5e5c0be | The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. | war safety state | Sun Tzu | |
| 03db373 | Oh, and Drew, honey?" The former counselor looked back reluctantly. "In case you think I'm not a true daughter of Aphrodite," Piper said, "don't even at Jason Grace. He may not know it yet, but he's . If you even try to make a move, I will load you into a catapult and shoot you across Long Island Sound." Drew turned around so fast, she ran into the doorframe. Then she was gone." | piper lost-hero | Rick Riordan |