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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8682252 | So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way. | Susan Cain | ||
| 280ab6c | Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of whack-a-mole. Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive." SMASH! "Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin." | humor groin son-of-neptune tyson | Rick Riordan | |
| ffe18f4 | Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. We all know individuals who did not fulfill the promise they showed in childhood. Many of them became haunted by the image of what they might have.. | science inspirational meaning-of-life | Michio Kaku | |
| f423d60 | Berhenti bercita-cita adalah tragedi terbesar dalam hidup manusia | inspirational | Andrea Hirata | |
| 2625f5c | When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side. | humor last-page dark-side first finish end read know die | Nora Ephron | |
| 01479a6 | Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. | rebellion women empowerment rule-breaking wellesley-college-commencement good-behaviour trouble ladies obedience rules | Nora Ephron | |
| 653918d | I'm tired, can't think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity. | Franz Kafka | ||
| caab333 | If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b18806c | If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, "Bye. I have to go. I'm going crazy and I'm getting out of here." And they go and hibernate .. | steve-jobs playboy interview | Walter Isaacson | |
| 4253664 | You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it." -- | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| b8b5aa0 | All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously." At the time Switters had disputed her assertion. Even at seventeen, he was aware that depression could have chemical causes. "The key word here is roots," Maestra had countered. "The roots of depression. For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start.. | self-awareness one-woman-s-opinion mentor self-pity opinion teacher | Tom Robbins | |
| fee4936 | Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual | philosophy | Frank Herbert | |
| ddba17b | No, thanks," said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it-- it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said." | harry-potter humor toilet | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3a8e4f8 | They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1c1550f | When she does not find love, she may find poetry. Because she does not act, she observes, she feels, she records; a color, a smile awakens profound echoes within her; her destiny is outside her, scattered in cities already built, on the faces of men already marked by life, she makes contact, she relishes with passion and yet in a manner more detached, more free, than that of a young man. Being poorly integrated in the universe of humanity a.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 383826f | Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this. | Homer | ||
| 4d558be | The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situ.. | happiness | Adam Smith | |
| 2351c87 | Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing. | Stephen King | ||
| 35bec00 | He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. | champage the-fault-in-our-starsn the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 814e447 | Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two. | time suffering wisdom | Lynsay Sands | |
| 7189ea1 | A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon) | life honor | George R.R. Martin | |
| 7ad6193 | My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. | music inspirational power-of-music | Martin Luther | |
| a799150 | Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. | inspirational intolerance tolerance cowardice | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | |
| e2d785a | Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 98a147d | If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 8adebd7 | One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 693396a | It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it? | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0957ff4 | I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| ab1647f | Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. | inspirational | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| be337ed | She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp them off. He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And.. | war love separation | Charles Frazier | |
| fdc1b69 | And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves. | life | Virginia Woolf | |
| 8d91ccb | Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. | time friendship | Jeanette Winterson | |
| b268841 | Mom told me, "It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don't you think?" I told her, "It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 6619fa5 | It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| dd0b3d6 | Life is the most spectacular show on earth | Sara Gruen | ||
| df476ec | She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously. | funny humor love leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| f8e6061 | I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. | nature | William Shakespeare | |
| bf592c7 | Closing The Cycl | letting-go inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| c6fbecd | In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is cert.. | 1862 letter-to-fanny-mccullough mourning sorrow inspirational bereavement grieving | Abraham Lincoln | |
| 108cd5a | Kung matatakot kang harapin ang totoo at sabihin ang talagang nararamdaman mo dahil baka masaktan ka, isa lang ibig sabihin noon: ipinagkait mo na sa sarili mo ang pagiging masaya at kinarir mo ang magpakatanga. | inspirational | bob ong | |
| 43df3d4 | The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d8deb37 | Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b5d1bab | Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. | Arthur Golden Memoirs Of A Geisha | ||
| fc1bdef | Be worthy love, and love will come. | worth patience | Louisa May Alcott |