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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 56a1692 | Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing. | focus-on 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 over-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 8887a82 | It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once. | good music love inspirational power-of-music hurt | Nina LaCour | |
| 9d50329 | So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. | war | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6d2f925 | It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. | poetry humanity love | Nick Hornby | |
| 3050361 | Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b54f8b0 | Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. | freespeech offense rights free-speech | Salman Rushdie | |
| 533e3f6 | Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony." Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold onto someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?" "Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert," Iggy said truthfully." | James Patterson | ||
| 5a21acc | Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light. | Dan Brown | ||
| d228ae5 | He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.... | Truman Capote | ||
| 90f60b0 | I hate mornings. They start so early. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| c1e3a99 | I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world. | Libba Bray | ||
| 0e59c67 | I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries? | war politics love nationality loyalty | Graham Greene | |
| a292828 | Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man. | the-alchemist | paulo coelho | |
| e318524 | I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders." | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 254665c | If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self--himself--he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 6be5760 | In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. | transition chaos space | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 100f6e4 | The three of them fell silent. After a long pause, Hermione voiced the knottiest question of all in a hesitant voice. "Do you think we should go and Hagrid about it all?" "That'd be a cheerful visit," said Ron, " 'Hello, Hagrid. Tell us, have you been setting anything mad and hairy loose in the castle lately?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ec99f04 | My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 170458e | That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. | sanity society | Erich Fromm | |
| 16b09a2 | I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 5a63fbb | We now know the basic rules governing the universe, together with the gravitational interrelationships of its gross components, as shown in the theory of relativity worked out between 1905 and 1916. We also know the basic rules governing the subatomic particles and their interrelationships, since these are very neatly described by the quantum theory worked out between 1900 and 1930. What's more, we have found that the galaxies and clusters .. | literature science knowledge | Isaac Asimov | |
| 67b1e26 | Sometimes he wakes so far from himself that he can't even remember who he is. "Where am I?" he asks, desperate, and then, "Who am I? Who am I?" And then he hears, so close to his ear that it is as if the voice is originating inside his own head, Willem's whispered incantation. "You're Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You're the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You're the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Ma.. | Hanya Yanagihara | ||
| aa25e53 | I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. | John Green | ||
| bb7ee05 | If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, .. | personality responsiveness sensitivity romanticism promise | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 3d11a4d | He pus his lips next to my ear and says, "You look good, Tris." | Veronica Roth | ||
| 04e7753 | Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. | Anonymous | ||
| 3c825c6 | Annabeth hesitated. "Then we'll all go." "No," I said. "It's too dangerous. If they got hold of Nico, or Rachel for that matter, Kronos could use them.You stay here and guard them." What I didn't say: I was also worried about Annabeth. I didn't trust what she would do if she saw Luke again. He had fooled her and manipulated her too many times before. "Percy, don't," Rachel said. "Don't go up there alone." "I'll be quick," I promised. "I wo.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3fa1795 | Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. | 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 | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 7a9a7b4 | Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. | writing humor inspirational | Don Roff | |
| c7a1b7f | I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. | library | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 0861590 | Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads." | Darren Shan | ||
| 48cde20 | If I had my way," Dionysus said, "I would cause your molecules to erupt in flames. We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with a lot of trouble. But Chiron seems to feel this would be against my mission at this cursed camp: to keep you little brats safe from harm." "Spontaneous combustion is a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in. "Nonsense," Dionysus said. "Boy wouldn't feel a thing. Nevertheless, I've agreed to restrain myself. I'm thinking o.. | poseidon percy-jackson dionysus | Rick Riordan | |
| 5cbb990 | That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood. | tantalus percy | Rick Riordan | |
| 9192df3 | To laugh is to live profoundly. | Milan Kundera | ||
| f1ac00a | Beyond the edge of the world there's a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard. | world loop signs emptiness substance edge space | Haruki Murakami | |
| 787ea89 | Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 31091ff | If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1240f9f | Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9ce293a | All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 195bb6c | Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing... And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet .. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| df37d52 | Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where you are going. Alice: I don't know. Cat: Then it doesn't matter which way you go. | purpose | Lewis Carroll | |
| aaeae61 | A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. | canvas isla-and-the-happily-ever-after stephanie-perkins teen-fiction contemporary contemporary-romance ya | Stephanie Perkins | |
| b5863cf | I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them. | love inspirational | Anne Tyler | |
| aeee9cf | I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Lu.. | J.R.R. Tolkien |