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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f02bf2 | We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 3043f04 | This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. | desperate faith long-process patience thread truth | Haruki Murakami | |
| 302876c | People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8a8f28d | My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it? | Tom Robbins | ||
| 9e22afa | If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... | sebastian summer teddy-bear | Evelyn Waugh | |
| cbf43c8 | Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. | Bram Stoker | ||
| e33c9e0 | You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential. | life way | Joseph Campbell | |
| 1df5d7a | Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours. -Phury's thoughts | J.R. Ward | ||
| 76936d5 | The necklace was a good excuse," he murmured. "For what?" "I thought maybe I could go to Charleston and show up at your front door to give this back and maybe... you might let me in. Or something. I was worried that another male would court you, so I've been trying to go as fast as I could. I mean, I figured maybe if I could read, and if I took a little better care of myself, and if I tried to stop being such a mean-ass motherfucker..." He .. | sweet tear-jerker | J.R. Ward | |
| a433372 | The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky. At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three. They had many wonderful things to teac.. | life tralfamadorians | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 528911b | I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 2e661c0 | I gave him my hard stare. "You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?" A wicked spark lit his eyes. "Many, many times." | Ilona Andrewsna Andrews | ||
| d636bfc | Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You still maiden, I hope?" Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes." "Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens." | brienne-of-tarth humor jaime-lannister rescue | George R.R. Martin | |
| 9604556 | To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. | intimidation peace psychology strategy victory war | Sun Tzu | |
| 54dfdab | I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. | Dorothy Parker | ||
| 765517e | I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]" | Dorothy Parker | ||
| 54b4e4c | The rivalry ends here," Percy said. "I love you, Wise Girl." | blood-of-olympus heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 73b6e8a | All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause - there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have crie.. | cause inspirational taking-action | Joss Whedon | |
| 5cba1fc | I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will co.. | beauty inspirational lord-of-the-rings truth | Peter Jackson | |
| 78a769b | Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the antelopes stretching over the palings, beauty sprang instantly. To watch a leaf quivering in the rush of air was an exquisite joy. Up in the sky swallows swooping, swerving, flinging themselves in and out, round and round, yet always with perfect control as if elastics held them; and the flies rising and falling;.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 245f0f1 | There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for. | Mitch Albom | ||
| dac485a | I made such a fool of myself," she lamented. "Love does not make you a fool." "He didn't love me back." "That does not make you a fool, either." "Just tell me ..." Her voice cracked. "When does it stop hurting?" "Sometimes never." | love | Mitch Albom | |
| 967df22 | I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. | Bill Bryson | ||
| dfbb0ca | Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9932041 | The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of t.. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| b2dcb71 | This isn't your average book, it's pure gold: . Explains everything you need to know about girls. IF only I'd had this last year I'd have known exactly how to get rid of Lavender and I would've known how to get going with... Well Fred and George gave me a copy, and I've learned a lot. You'd be surprised, it's not all about wandwork, either. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4eec80f | Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. | pg-51 | Sharon Creech | |
| 6504f15 | What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars. | fathers moon stars | Jodi Picoult | |
| b880fe1 | Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer. | comfort taco | Tom Robbins | |
| c2c5e58 | Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| fc9a31c | Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 195a1f4 | As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. | harsh-truth neil-gaiman reality | Neil Gaiman | |
| 32ce2ff | Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism harassment images law magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography rape self-esteem sexual-harassment sexual-violence sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 6aa5f35 | Could you do a glamour and turn into something smaller?" I asked it. "Preferably not a chain, since it's no longer the 1990s?" The sword didn't reply (duh), but I imagined it was humming at a more interrogative pitch, like, Such as what? "I dunno. Something pocket-size and innocuous. A pen, maybe?" The sword pulsed, almost like it was laughing. I imagined it saying, A pen sword. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 486af30 | Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 0aa958d | Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones, So let it be with Caesar ... The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answered it ... Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all; all h.. | mark-antony | William Shakespeare | |
| 74b3881 | When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. | humor inspirational | Barney Stinson | |
| 9e8c3c2 | I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down. | inspirational | Shannon Hale | |
| 98d00b1 | Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another. | inspirational self-help | Mark Manson | |
| 3f2bfbc | It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be , is every bit as strong as ours-arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock i.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 5a74f20 | I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 773f8d3 | Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, knew the time would soon come to prove just how much she'd bleed for Erilea. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 85a17f9 | Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes. "You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well that turned out." | percy-jackson persephone | Rick Riordan | |
| 673603e | Could you do a glamour and turn into something smaller?" I asked it. "Preferably not a chain, since it's no longer the 1990s?" The sword didn't reply (duh), but I imagined it was humming at a more interrogative pitch, like, Such as what? "I dunno. Something pocket-size and innocuous. A pen, maybe?" The sword pulsed, almost like it was laughing. I imagined it saying, A pen sword. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard." -- | Rick Riordan |