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Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
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 | ||
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 | ||
8adb8d7 | Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. | Betty Smith | ||
263d53e | I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
29b6a19 | Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. | love elizabeth-gilbert pray | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
067d8b4 | You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive." | William Goldman | ||
c368a8a | I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't ever realize you're on the floor. | sex | David Levithan | |
237d1a4 | Never argue when you're winning. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
c2a57e0 | The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
4ec7ef4 | To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. | Oscar Wilde | ||
75d0b61 | To write is human, to edit is divine. | inspirational | Stephen King | |
67e27f0 | Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw | Stephen Covey | ||
2b6b975 | Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. | arya-stark game-of-thrones | George R.R. Martin | |
8cf50db | Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies. He sat back in his leather aviator jacket, his black T-shirt and jeans, that wicked silver skull ring on his finger, and the Stygian sword at his side. His tufts of black hair struck up in curls like baby bat wings. His eyes were sad and kind of empty, as if he'd stared into the depths of Tartarus--which he had. | nico-di-angelo leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
a4547eb | Leo: I'm almost out of gas! Woah, that came out wrong. I meant the burning kind! | Rick Riordan | ||
29ebbb4 | So I am to sit here and feed you information," Cardan says, leaning against a hickory tree. "And you're to go charm royalty? That seems entirely backward." I fix him with a look. "I can be charming. I charmed you, didn't I?" He rolls his eyes. "Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes." | Holly Black | ||
1efb611 | I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true. | inspirational | Wally Lamb | |
3e095ee | life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat. | inspirational | anaïs nin | |
2c7d8de | My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy. | dan-howell danisnotonfire happiness life inspirational youtube | Dan Howell | |
b82512c | Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try. | sempre life inspirational risks promises | J.M. Darhower | |
6a1fecc | What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. | Margaret Atwood | ||
e2398dc | My mother is a fish. | William Faulkner | ||
2cc7815 | The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. | lyrical irish sea | James Joyce | |
f29bfdd | But, first, remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of the night. And whatever strange things may happen to you, let nothing turn your mind from following the signs. And secondly, I give you a warning. Here on the mountain I have spoken to you clearly: I will not often do so down in Narnia. Here on the mountain, the air is clear.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
7bc9d94 | The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. | love bitterness | Euripides | |
a76bb77 | There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard. | magic love no-denying | Nicholas Sparks | |
fba913c | I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
554d30c | People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. | Paulo Coelho | ||
baad2bc | When he watched her sleeping, he often thought, My heart lies vulnerable outside my chest. | Kresley Cole | ||
1978813 | When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. | engineering psychoanalysis psychology | William Gibson | |
3b84a23 | When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. | truth | George Bernard Shaw | |
580d014 | I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the .. | William Blake | ||
f1da09d | I know this is stupid, but part of me felt like if I could come see you today, if I could convince you to go with me tonight, then maybe I could still change things. It's dumb, I know. It's not like Levana cares if I, you know, might have actual feelings for someone. | Marissa Meyer | ||
faf00c7 | Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good? | humor | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
42096a0 | There is so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments. | Georgette Heyer | ||
105c4ec | It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. | humor truth oscar-wilde | Oscar Wilde | |
83bc3f9 | Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person. | John Green | ||
1a9c203 | The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead in the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
4af9968 | Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas? | Rick Riordan |