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0114965 I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length of time, and that is my knowledge of myself. I can watch myself and my actions, just like an outsider. The Anne of every day I can face entirely without prejudice, without making excuses for her, and watch what's good and what's bad about her. This 'self-consciousness' haunts me, and every time I open my mouth I know as soon as I've spoken whe.. Anne Frank
b37a9b9 In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats. Gregory Maguire
72507b6 The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. Agatha Christie
82859c5 There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. pain suffering James Baldwin
2e56d67 Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. Leo Tolstoy
d830778 You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read. Markus Zusak
b3edbb6 What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. fear Sharon Creech
d72335b I enjoy my anger, it's the only hobby I have. Laurell K. Hamilton
3654367 I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. prejudice Jean-Jacques Rousseau
f15a133 Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind. David Levithan
09f3b9a If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates. Charles Bukowski
1dd8106 Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart. Lloyd Alexander
7ca2346 All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone. Neil Gaiman
3b08496 Sometimes the bitch wins. Charlaine Harris
610a762 Qhuinn: "What is wrong with you, that you care so much about me?" Blay: "What is wrong with you, that you can't see why I would?" J.R. Ward
bc9ba77 Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia. Rick Riordan
f9da03e False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare
ddec5d8 To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence. fear inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational self-confidence Roy T. Bennett
b5cc4c2 You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not. inspirational Chris Colfer
240b7c0 Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God's already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn't pay Him for what He's done for me. a-w-tozer millenniums earth worship prayer god life truth inspirational million the-truth pay ages done A.W. Tozer
32c8cc4 It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. motivation change inspirational James Gordon
1bfed69 Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace. faith inspirational Ezra Taft Benson
10e690b If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity. story humanity motivational success happiness life inspirational hero Steve Maraboli
10bc372 It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn't say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old. Hunter S. Thompson
3561173 One can forgive but one should never forget. Marjane Satrapi
314f303 You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day. Cecelia Ahern
dbcee76 Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person. Jodi Picoult
c459e8b Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. C.S. Lewis
c2751af I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. beauty friendship god love C.S. Lewis
311bc49 Learning to should be learned before learning to Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph. letting-go life Ray Bradbury
acc234f It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is. Peter S. Beagle
02fc036 I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella" brokenness lost-love Stephenie Meyer
773b6da Gazzy: (Hugging himself and jumping up and down) "I'm brilliant! I'm a genius! I can blow up the world!" Max: (Raises her eyebrows) Gazzy: "Not that I would want to, of course," (coughs)" James Patterson
36a7b5e Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning. Gabriel García Márquez
a731986 Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly." the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
41cf5d6 You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.. John Green
2c91fb2 Truth suffers from too much analysis. -Ancient Fremen Saying Frank Herbert
3bf54e6 Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles. J.R.R. Tolkien
8884169 She put one hand on mine. "When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times." -- love Mitch Albom
5e99b03 I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again. L.M. Montgomery
b05a375 So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being. good humanity Paulo Coelho
ab81fec The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus. The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus. But this was not how the author of.. male-beauty perspective narcissus vanity Paulo Coelho
1eb35ec D'Arvit! Eoin Colfer
e8d910c We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before. past Daphne Du Maurier