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65cd79f God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered. Paulo Coelho
5b65ccd The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself. fear loss Sarah J. Maas
266b276 You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared. Sarah J. Maas
bbac204 If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it. Shel Silverstein
cc4c00c The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. patriotism politics Julian Barnes
51045ef Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do." learning understanding Umberto Eco
edc1acf I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. [...] Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that w.. friendship Vladimir Nabokov
04b41fa I have found God, but he is insufficient. religion Henry Miller
126c077 For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. Charles Bukowski
178f392 I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide. Charles Bukowski
6a4655a maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't Charles Bukowski
f8770da But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress...a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all. Charles Bukowski
8b66b67 Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake
b9e3562 Everything I know, I know because of love. love Leo Tolstoy
b7ec95c I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
ee802d9 It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are far more than our abilities. harrypotter J.K. Rowling
ffda576 Oh, are you doing magic? Let's see it, then." She sat down. Ron looked taken aback. "Er -- all right." He cleared his throat. He waved his wand, but nothing happened. Scabbers stayed gray and fast asleep. "Are you sure that's a real spell?" said the girl. "Well, it's not very good, is it? I've tried a few simple spells just for practice and it's all worked for me. I've learned all our course books by heart, of course." hermione-granger j-k-rowling magic ron-weasley scabbers J.K. Rowling
0364896 Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him. J.K. Rowling
d473a25 The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life. George Bernard Shaw
da7c425 We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up. books burial generations grave history history-repeating-itself lonely remember war winning Ray Bradbury
3b647e7 These fragments I have shored against my ruins aging fall nostalgia past T.S. Eliot
b52e254 It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world the-picture-of-doran-gray Oscar Wilde
5d0fee2 The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
cdf1d5b It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out. How long I stood frozen there, I can.. Kurt Vonnegut
1c5e590 What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?" F. Scott Fitzgerald
4ba2ad4 I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica. Stephen Chbosky
4920131 Choices determine character. choice graulas Brandon Mull
e4496b0 Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse. heroes-of-olympus horses humor hygiene percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena Rick Riordan
429a291 Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. prayer Terry Pratchett
27e50a2 Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in! When we're frightened, the hair on our skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur. We .. fish monkeys teeth Terry Pratchett
923b54e Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. happiness inspirational Aeschylus
5a43fee By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system. I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence." It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than.. inspirational psychology Viktor E. Frankl
f160a01 Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul. inspirational lifestyle living meditation yoga Amit Ray
f54a3ed You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward inspirational toltec-wisdom wisdom Don Miguel Ruiz
8adb8d7 Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. Betty Smith
61cea17 At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie. Paulo Coelho
c958db9 If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best. Paulo Coelho
ee37da0 She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it.. J.D. Salinger
237d1a4 Never argue when you're winning. Laurell K. Hamilton
3b9bbf3 Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. Jane Austen
e7cc08f I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh! Jean-Paul Sartre
bccb3b6 The mind can go either direction under stress--toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training. Frank Herbert
9b31ad6 I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to J.R.R. Tolkien
4187350 Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected! J.R.R. Tolkien