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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a9dd0fd | her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| d5057af | There's no such thing as ready," she says. "There's only willing." | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 1a708bd | He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 06c100e | I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e66821c | What do stars do? They shine. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 458ebea | If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. | stupidity put-downs | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| fec347a | You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie." | sookie-eric | Charlaine Harris | |
| 3fbd3cc | Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. | metaphor myth religion believers theists organized-religion | Joseph Campbell | |
| e35b007 | I can't believe you're here," she says, her voice soft. "I can't believe you found me." "You found me first," he says, and when he leans to kiss her, it's slow and sweet and she knows that this will be the one she always remembers. Because while the other two kisses felt like endings, this one is unquestionably a beginning." -- | Jennifer E. Smith | ||
| 0a55d2e | If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. | feelings relationships people life respect vanity | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| b2ec496 | Have you ever met someone and felt . . . I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having something that eluded you? I don't know . . . Forget I said anything." I knew what he meant. He was describing that moment when you realize that you are lonely. For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a phys.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 10a4c88 | What we do comes out of who we believe we are. | thoughts inspiration | Rob Bell | |
| f9ed108 | Nothing will come of nothing: speak again. | William Shakespeare | ||
| eb7ad2b | Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 27042e3 | A winner is a dreamer who never gives up | inspirational | Nelson Mandela | |
| 08b4a84 | The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. | inspirational self-responsibility maturity | John C. Maxwell | |
| 4555661 | Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow. | perseverance courage inspirational | Mary Anne Radmacher | |
| 914f912 | There's no great loss without some small gain. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| f41fe86 | I couldn't be with people and I didn't want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me--I'd lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be. | loneliness sadness | Marian Keyes | |
| af62972 | Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death. | human-rights death euthanasia animals | Milan Kundera | |
| 91b2d0b | We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, "You're not the one." We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both--or even worse, cry and yell at us." | sex women the-one | Greg Behrendt Liz Tuccillo | |
| 04cddea | Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. | inspirational prophecy | C.S. Lewis | |
| 0105574 | It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 44bdba0 | Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot? | Anne Rice | ||
| 2b6ce21 | I've chosen my life -- now I want to start living it. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| db3282f | Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 4e25230 | Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 1ffa1f8 | She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. | pride-and-prejudice mr-darcy | Jane Austen | |
| 37e906c | Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love." | sacrifice love inspirational made-me-cry nobility | Charles Dickens | |
| a3dfc45 | You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. | love stranger | Truman Capote | |
| 4a6cd48 | I want my name to mean me. | Mark Haddon (Author) | ||
| f6048c0 | You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 20da1a9 | I'd walk into the burning heart of hell itself to find you. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ccadbba | I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. | live | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 306dfd5 | His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione. | loyality | J.K. Rowling | |
| e5f73de | Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 9df6aae | Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! | reunion | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 1cb47ab | He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father. | love | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 40f27e1 | If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. | hunger | John Piper | |
| 9c5dbfd | We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. | self-discovery perspective revelation | John Irving | |
| 9cfc0e2 | How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals. | learning 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 failure | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 8ae5f1d | Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. | Joseph Heller | ||
| e7315ed | My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice. | evolution commemoration denomination religious-convictions science tenets views scientific sermon monument cross service ritual torture | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 466dc80 | As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer. | Hunter S. Thompson |