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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6308393 | The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. | bad-intentions spot validity criticism kindness inspirational good-intentions necessary intentions envy purity weakness sincerity motives | Criss Jami | |
| 2349198 | He's like a suicidal Energizer bunny. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 356a1a8 | Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women. | men women | Margaret Atwood | |
| 759c77f | Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her. | Alice Munro | ||
| 3a8f93c | The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 26ac4a5 | Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the mos.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6e67d87 | If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk--and feisty gentlemen. | dealing-with-it mottos | Larry McMurtry | |
| 17d63bd | For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. | history philosophy | Elie Wiesel | |
| f944dfe | Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4bcbc27 | But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday--at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere--the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? | Sylvia Plath | ||
| c7ee9ba | Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9f25ccf | The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. | spirituality | Dan Brown | |
| 4b196c0 | Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others. | Rick Warren | ||
| cb7438f | Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 4761a7a | A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet .. | seeing identity | John Berger | |
| 31a8d2c | Change isn't always for the best. | the-best-of-me | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 41e85e1 | If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 72ad09f | She was not one for emptying her face of expression. | face expression | J.D. Salinger | |
| ad1cc9e | I miss you,' she said. 'Every day, I miss you. And I wonder what you would have made of all this. Made of me. I think - I think you would have been a wonderful king. I think they would have liked you more than me, actually.' Her throat tightened. 'I never told you - how I felt. But I loved you, and I think a part of me might always love you. Maybe you were my mate, and I never knew it. Maybe I'll spend the rest of my life wondering about th.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 90bc1f2 | It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. | happiness | George Saunders | |
| 6bb89bc | Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities. | stars koontz possibilities midnight | Dean Koontz | |
| c35322f | You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You're a ghost with a beating heart. Soon you'll cross the border and be with me. I'm so stoked. I miss you wicked. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 9bb1391 | It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. | bookstore | Agatha Christie | |
| 50479b2 | No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough." | writing | bell hooks | |
| d5bc725 | Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain. | harry-potter romance love hermione-granger | J.K. Rowling | |
| 96da63c | I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone | David Levithan | ||
| 7ec79ad | Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse." | vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| a5f49ed | As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 9365558 | A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 82423cb | In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair. | Suzanne Collins | ||
| 6955090 | She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 6f950ef | unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| cd0bcec | You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?" | names humor sobriquet | Rick Riordan | |
| 0f0275f | It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 6e68224 | Rise to the occassion which is life! | life inspirational | Virginia Euwer Wolff | |
| 74cf893 | If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings. | lessons thoughts life love inspirational perspective self | Nayyirah Waheed | |
| 64c4100 | Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. | hope inspirational | Martin Luther | |
| 9678a15 | You enter the fores | life inspirational way | Joseph Campbell | |
| 02afa47 | Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have. | time life inspirational | Eckhart Tolle | |
| 708532d | I am so, so alive. | the-scorpio-races inspirational | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| cd2df69 | I want to get to know every freckle and every curve on a personal level." "I think you did that last night." "Nah." He shook his head. "That was just a meet and greet. I want to know their hopes and dreams." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| cc9f0d2 | Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar... | nostalgia | William Faulkner | |
| 7f007c3 | When they give you lined paper, write the other way. | ray-bradbury | Ray Bradbury | |
| 3060531 | Stupid bitch,' Tori muttered. 'oh let's take the necromancer with the superpowers to the cemetery. Of course you aren't going to raise the dead, you silly girl. | tori reckoning | Kelley Armstrong |