1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
196
197
198
199
200
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9ed25a0 | What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. | inspirational misattributed-plutarch inner-strength | Otto Rank | |
| e5d4aeb | Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up. | action gratitude depression motivational success life inspirational appreciation | Steve Maraboli | |
| df4029d | The caged bird sings with a fearful trill | 1969 inspirational | Maya Angelou | |
| 30f4d42 | Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. | spiritual inspirational | Frederick Buechner | |
| 48c7f58 | You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again! | rick riordan | ||
| 35adadf | The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 586ef84 | Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man. | elena-michaels supernatural | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 5868743 | Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets. | life regret | Joseph Conrad | |
| bd756e7 | Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. | popularity | John Steinbeck | |
| dee7a50 | When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun--that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays--whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having--that interlude--the scrambly madness--all that time I had before?" | angst | Douglas Coupland | |
| 3359836 | and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave. | people | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0b85731 | All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e366618 | One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection." | perfection | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| ad02710 | The useless sentries in the watchtower are now all half in love with you," he lied. "One said he wanted to marry you." A low snarl. He yielded a foot but held eye contact with her as he grinned. "But you know what I told them? I said that they didn't stand a chance in hell. Because I am going to marry you," he promised her. "One day. I am going to marry you. I'll be generous and let you pick when, even if it's ten years from now. Or twenty.. | lysandra | Sarah J. Maas | |
| eeb5f57 | After a too-long moment, the crown prince spoke. "I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect." His words were coated with glorious boredom." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8ed7b27 | We are asleep until we fall in Love! | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 0acb232 | People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart. | Markus Zusak | ||
| fac0c62 | We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts-- not to hurt others." | George Eliot | ||
| e77307a | What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. | truth omissions importance | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| c138d56 | Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and.. | quotes-i-love quotes-of-betrayal quotes-that-make-sense power-of-words quotes-to-live-by quotes-to-define-my-life practices powerful power | Robert Greene | |
| dc36826 | Westley: This is true love -- you think this happens every day? | love | William Goldman | |
| 9e06426 | Love cannot live where there is no trust. | relationships trust love mythology | Edith Hamilton | |
| 34d0eb7 | logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 822df85 | When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction. | Stephen King | ||
| 98dd25a | people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 92aed4f | If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. | satisfaction wisdom curious curiosity | Holly Black | |
| 5fa6512 | We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.. | travel self-awareness love inspirational | Pico Iyer | |
| 0fb71cb | So which way now, Sacagawea?" - Annabeth to Rachel" -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0ed889e | Jealous, O'Shea?" "Actually... I am." | jared-howe | Stephenie Meyer | |
| ed27bd8 | When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility. | god | Anne Lamott | |
| 9695839 | It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: .. | virtue competence nobility self-respect | Ayn Rand | |
| 433d28c | I would prefer not to. | secret nobody melville puzzle mystery | Herman Melville | |
| bac3abe | So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you .. | new-jersey | Jack Kerouac | |
| 0a221b5 | J'aurais du etre plus gentille--I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 04e03ef | Sticking with your family is what it a family. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 585624a | Nameless is my price. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 42a9000 | And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. | Maurice Sendak | ||
| 324b1e7 | And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be." | William Goldman | ||
| 1db1e4a | The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 15daf25 | Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson | John Green | ||
| 08ea65d | Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed." | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 01276c1 | Life moves on and so should we | Spencer Johnson | ||
| 468aa64 | So which way now, Sacagawea?" - Annabeth to Rachel" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 781d99b | She blinked. "Hmm? Oh, don't care. What did Anubis look like to you?" "What did... he looked like a guy. So?" "A good-looking guy, or a slobbering dog-headed guy?" "I guess... Not the dog-headed guy." "I knew it!" Sadie pointed at me as if she'd won an argument. "Good-looking. I knew it!" And with a ridiculous grin, she spun around and skipped into the house. My sister, as I may have mentioned, is a little strange." | the-red-pyramid strange | Rick Riordan |