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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f61e46e | Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin. | inspirational initiation beginnings | Clarissa Pinkola Estés | |
| 2af6533 | To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand stil.. | inspirational | Colleen Houck | |
| fa95db8 | All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| f6c9cfb | To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| ec954fe | Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 322a2ac | Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts. | Franz Kafka | ||
| c948dce | The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There.. | gulag novels utopia | Milan Kundera | |
| b32b4a5 | Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 493b524 | The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to something. | Nick Hornby | ||
| f321a5f | Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night. | Haruki murakami | ||
| c4bfa3d | There's no limit to what you can dream. You the unexpected, you in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of | love inspirational | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 7d8ab80 | I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. | sleep look-forward the-bell-jar pillow pretend sylvia-plath night | Sylvia Plath | |
| 9f59265 | A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. | mind social-anxiety | Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| ad468b0 | Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. | Richard Adams | ||
| cbdd13a | Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. | mass-media repression totalitarianism propaganda | Noam Chomsky | |
| 01c4c3d | I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours. | Henry James | ||
| 887e2b4 | To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. | mind reading tastes insight | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 1c8644b | Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. | Truman Capote | ||
| ade28f9 | It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6052b97 | The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? | sorrow | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 8351198 | Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly. | friendship gender-differences | Khaled Hosseini | |
| bd2a230 | Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f194eb3 | love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| fb59fb9 | I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because we were peaceful all of us, we were content and drowsy even as the bee who droned above our heads. In a little while it would be different, there would come tomorrow, and the next day and another year. And we would be changed perhaps, never sitting quite like this again. Some of us would go away, or suffer, or die, th.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 827be12 | My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 2851e4f | What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don't know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin." "Like a brick in the groin, I see." "I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." .. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 5268115 | If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. | tragedy | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| aff8a9a | People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability. | William Goldman | ||
| b88c7a3 | Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. | misanthropy | Charles Bukowski | |
| a87b061 | What kind of a woman greets the Beast Lord with 'here, kitty, kitty'? | Ilona Andrews | ||
| df0f16e | Before I could cry or scream I whirled around and stalked to my bedroom,slamming the door behind me. I hope they all drown. "Zoey your mother and I need to speak with you." Great. Clearly they didn't drown." | P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast | ||
| f5526f1 | Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted. | trust mirrors | Neil Gaiman | |
| 5691ba8 | No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 1eebd5e | Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star. But every one of.. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| eb36565 | I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening. | the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 35cdd6f | Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does. | John Green | ||
| 5388976 | If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. | John Piper | ||
| 7d3b19d | They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break. | greed friendship end-of-series robin-wasserman seven-deadly-sins sad | Robin Wasserman | |
| 9f17221 | In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 399e6d4 | I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with irresistible force. I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly's blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. She groans, and I hear a gurgling in her throat, watch blood trickle from her lips. "You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes too wide; they look alar.. | life | Veronica Roth | |
| eeffbf4 | It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace. | war peace | Alan Moore | |
| 378daac | If people are going to be allowed to say "we love you" and "I love you", they'd better have the backbone to prove it. Love isn't just a word. | inspirational-quotes love inspirational inspirational-love real-love | C. JoyBell C. | |
| f73a7f4 | There's no limit to what you can dream. Yo | dreams love inspirational | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 617c7d2 | According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates un.. | inspirational talent | Deepak Chopra |