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f4727d7	You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.	life james-carstairs william-herondale magnus-bane goodbye	Cassandra Clare
f053402	Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.		Ray Bradbury
f541bd0	Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.	success	Milan Kundera
5b94198	If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.	letting-go change life inspirational growth mistakes	Steve Maraboli
7629084	It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.	good charming tedious	Oscar Wilde
a3760fb	We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough		Stephen Chbosky
44c9f39	It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace."	humor gray-book jace	Cassandra Clare
3c0ee38	A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.	reading love	David Mitchell
4ff7a54	Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.	motivational inspirational attention direction focus	Zig Ziglar
a9df6ab	I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably."	humor	Cassandra Clare
92dd79b	Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.	kindness inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes life inspirational living-life kind	Roy T. Bennett
276da4a	Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.	courage inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational courage-quotes beliefs believe belief	Roy T. Bennett
7a49748	I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.		Jonathan Safran Foer
940276b	Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.	leadership inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational success life-lessons optimism life inspirational leader	Roy T. Bennett
f45f070	I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.		Sylvia Plath
c95dd60	When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.	life mistakes	Paulo Coelho
bac4435	Give her hell from us, Peeves.	mischief george-weasley umbridge peeves hell	J.K. Rowling
69dbff2	To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.		Oscar Wilde
9e9f8c2	Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!		Emily Brontë
9fe0042	Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.	poem humor fred haiku percy-jackson	Rick Riordan
06f0f12	You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwe..	clary-fray jace-lightwood	Cassandra Clare
5bae0cd	He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.		Leo Tolstoy
8ca28a4	When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.		John Green
ce4b69c	Try a little harder to be a little better.	inspirational	Gordon B. Hinckley
ea64bb3	Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship."		Cassandra Clare
6804d1f	Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.		Marion Zimmer Bradley
1622538	You'd think people had better things to gossip about," said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry's legs and reading the Daily Prophet. "Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it's true you've got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest." Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them. What did you tell her?" I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail," said Ginny, turni..		J.K. Rowling
634737e	You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again." "I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time." "I've been thinking about you, too." "I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know." "I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself."	romance love	Cassandra Clare
f890464	If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.	inspirational	The Dalai Lama
bc94063	Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.	vorkosigan inspirational sci-fi	Lois McMaster Bujold
62d07a6	Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.	motivational inspirational	Viktor E. Frankl
05c4c2a	Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.		Danielle Steel
a6c0083	Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.	trying persistence inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote never-give-up fearless life-philosophy failure	Roy T. Bennett
aec50d9	A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.	snow	Markus Zusak
5941500	The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.	life inspirational live-in-the-moment enjoy-life purpose-of-life adventure carpe-diem experience	Eleanor Roosevelt
fcc24f4	When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.	mind	Milan Kundera
fabad96	It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a .	happiness stories	Haruki Murakami
c63968b	When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.		Elizabeth Gilbert
58f3134	Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.	appreciate relationship inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life love inspirational value smile respect laugh	Roy T. Bennett
68bb9b2	Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?	religion skeptic	Douglas Adams
92585b9	The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!	inspirational	Edward J. Stieglitz
2227e83	Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.	love	Orhan Pamuk
8b16bef	Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.	courtroom-drama crime	John Grisham
f8ae791	And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.		John Steinbeck

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

life james-carstairs william-herondale magnus-bane goodbye

Cassandra Clare

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Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Ray Bradbury

f541bd0

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

success

Milan Kundera

5b94198

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

letting-go change life inspirational growth mistakes

Steve Maraboli

7629084

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

good charming tedious

Oscar Wilde

a3760fb

We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough

Stephen Chbosky

44c9f39

It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace."

humor gray-book jace

Cassandra Clare

3c0ee38

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

reading love

David Mitchell

4ff7a54

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

motivational inspirational attention direction focus

Zig Ziglar

a9df6ab

I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably."

humor

Cassandra Clare

92dd79b

Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.

kindness inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes life inspirational living-life kind

Roy T. Bennett

276da4a

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

courage inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational courage-quotes beliefs believe belief

Roy T. Bennett

7a49748

I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

Jonathan Safran Foer

940276b

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

leadership inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational success life-lessons optimism life inspirational leader

Roy T. Bennett

f45f070

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Sylvia Plath

c95dd60

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

life mistakes

Paulo Coelho

bac4435

Give her hell from us, Peeves.

mischief george-weasley umbridge peeves hell

J.K. Rowling

69dbff2

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

9e9f8c2

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

Emily Brontë

9fe0042

Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.

poem humor fred haiku percy-jackson

Rick Riordan

06f0f12

You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwe..

clary-fray jace-lightwood

Cassandra Clare

5bae0cd

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Leo Tolstoy

8ca28a4

When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.

John Green

ce4b69c

Try a little harder to be a little better.

inspirational

Gordon B. Hinckley

ea64bb3

Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship."

Cassandra Clare

6804d1f

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

1622538

You'd think people had better things to gossip about," said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry's legs and reading the Daily Prophet. "Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it's true you've got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest." Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them. What did you tell her?" I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail," said Ginny, turni..

J.K. Rowling

634737e

You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again." "I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time." "I've been thinking about you, too." "I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know." "I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself."

romance love

Cassandra Clare

f890464

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

inspirational

The Dalai Lama

bc94063

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

vorkosigan inspirational sci-fi

Lois McMaster Bujold

62d07a6

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

motivational inspirational

Viktor E. Frankl

05c4c2a

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

Danielle Steel

a6c0083

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

trying persistence inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote never-give-up fearless life-philosophy failure

Roy T. Bennett

aec50d9

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

snow

Markus Zusak

5941500

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

life inspirational live-in-the-moment enjoy-life purpose-of-life adventure carpe-diem experience

Eleanor Roosevelt

fcc24f4

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

mind

Milan Kundera

fabad96

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a .

happiness stories

Haruki Murakami

c63968b

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

58f3134

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.