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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ac7ee6a | Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude | inspirational | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 49312ed | Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you. | inspirational | Randy Pausch | |
| bdcdcde | This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. | life philosophy inspirational | Rumi | |
| f3214a8 | Daemon stilled above me. 'I won't hurt you, Kat.' His tone was softer, but still laced with fury as he tried to control me without doing any real damage. 'I could never hurt you. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4ed44bf | Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 7932003 | She was a woman who made mistakes, who sometimes cried on a Monday morning or at night alone in bed. She was a woman who often became bored with her life and found it hard to get up for work in the morning. She was a woman who more often than not had a bad hair day, who looked in the mirror and wondered why she couldn't just drag herself to the gym more often; she was a woman who sometimes questioned what reason had she to live on this plan.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 44521e0 | And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved. | universe hope lestat rescue safety | Anne Rice | |
| eadd56f | But now," says the Once-ler, "now that you're here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 09a2ecf | She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they ha.. | life inspirational butterflies | Lisa Genova | |
| 33ee60d | Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished. | John Gray | ||
| 3e57464 | If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them - wherever you go. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 69be3a6 | She was still hugging the cat. "Poor slob," she said, tickling his head, "poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't any right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong to.. | home | Truman Capote | |
| 4e6361a | A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b618e65 | An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand... | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 491df3d | And tell Rowan," Aelin said, fighting her own sob, "that I'm sorry I lied. But tell him it was all borrowed time anyway. Even before today, I knew it was all just borrowed time, but I still wish we'd had more of it." She fought past her trembling mouth. "Tell him he has to fight. He save Terrasen, and remember the vows he made to me. And tell him . . . tell him thank you--for walking that dark path with me back to the light." | pg660 rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 1147854 | What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible friend waiting for us?' Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 916e17a | Life is better when you're around. And look at how lovely your handwriting is. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| cf08659 | Killing rips the soul apart. | j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| abe4c4a | You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0490ce0 | Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 96c0851 | Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed. | anita blake hunter jacob vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| edf3243 | If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 7122765 | Love is keeping the promise anyway. | John Green | ||
| b18d8ca | In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 72eb786 | I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| b03e0b9 | If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own. | sacrifice reality well-being selflessness | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 111114c | The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 7f48cec | But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be.. | inspirational | Jim Butcher | |
| a8b357d | But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone-- | trying love | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| c0bf680 | Talent is a gift, but character is a choice. | character inspirational talent | John C. Maxwell | |
| c485810 | As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a co.. | everyday-life grateful sunshine | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| 362ed00 | Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 9a4ba9c | Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f7648d7 | No one who is young is ever going to be old. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 074558d | It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Iluvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen. | sea water ocean | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7041589 | This desire to govern a woman--it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes--really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms." | romance love | E.M. Forster | |
| f734862 | What one man can invent, another can discover. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes] Doyle | ||
| 27c31a4 | In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. | words | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| fcb4cea | It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 6a81782 | They yearn for what they fear for. | canto-iii inferno | Dante Alighieri | |
| cf65b24 | Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. | sisyphus repetition | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 2a2a51d | Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "Nope it's a pie." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4dcb12f | You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 62e87be | Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are. | José Saramago |