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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 04b41fa | I have found God, but he is insufficient. | religion | Henry Miller | |
| cc4c00c | The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. | politics patriotism | 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." | understanding learning | Umberto Eco | |
| 144fb03 | Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 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. | loss fear | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 266b276 | You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 34bbef6 | Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 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." | magic scabbers j-k-rowling hermione-granger ron-weasley | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| bbac204 | If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 3b647e7 | These fragments I have shored against my ruins | past fall aging nostalgia | 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. | humor hygiene heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena horses | 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. | living inspirational yoga lifestyle meditation | 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 | toltec-wisdom wisdom inspirational | Don Miguel Ruiz | |
| 864f01c | Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? . Let us reflect that it is inhabited by a thousand millions of people. That these profess probably a thousand different systems of religion. That ours is but one of that thousand. That if there be but one right, and ours that one, we should wish to see the 999 wandering sects gathered into th.. | reason uniformity free-inquiry religious-violence hypocrites fools | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 65c2739 | I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. | politics education liberty government | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 2f788a6 | I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound .. | rebellion politics government revolution | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 1542bd3 | Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence. | existence barriers boundaries questions children | Milan Kundera | |
| 214e4a2 | I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on. | reading humor | Nick Hornby | |
| 4234eaf | it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart. | Steve Martin | ||
| c770ffe | and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. | love irish_short_stories | James Joyce | |
| ead9196 | Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 8e62aa5 | I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth | James Patterson | ||
| 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 |