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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 inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic over-thinking positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-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 hurt inspirational love music power-of-music | Nina LaCour | |
| 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. | chaos space transition | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 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? | love loyalty nationality politics war | Graham Greene | |
| a292828 | Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man. | the-alchemist | paulo coelho | |
| 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 .. | knowledge literature science | Isaac Asimov | |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | free-speech freespeech offense rights | 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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. | humanity love poetry | 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 | ||
| e318524 | I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders." | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 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 promise responsiveness romanticism sensitivity | 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 inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 7a9a7b4 | Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. | humor inspirational writing | Don Roff | |
| 1ec67d0 | To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. | friends success | Sidney Sheldon | |
| a3117ca | Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us... | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 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. | inspirational love | 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 | ||
| f409d7e | Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eter.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 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 contemporary contemporary-romance isla-and-the-happily-ever-after stephanie-perkins teen-fiction ya | Stephanie Perkins | |
| b806e68 | There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe. | science stars universe | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| a222eec | The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| e8d689d | Did you know that she was cyborg?" asked a woman in an unhidden tone of disgust. Kai stared at her, appearing confused, then let his gaze dance over the crowd. He shuffled his feet closer to the podium, a wrinkle forming on the bridge of his nose. Cinder bit the inside of her cheek and braced herself for adamant disgust. Who would ever invite a cyborg to the ball? But instead, Kai said simply, "I don't see that her being cyborg is relevant... | cyborg kai | Marissa Meyer | |
| 6ab65bb | Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 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.. | dionysus percy-jackson poseidon | Rick Riordan | |
| 5cbb990 | That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood. | percy tantalus | Rick Riordan |