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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc0b862 | If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people. | Rick Warren | ||
| a275183 | when men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom " | John Gray | ||
| a6d2ebf | Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a43c7e7 | It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments. | death life | Thomas Pynchon | |
| cd05923 | Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again." | harry-potter humor | J.K. Rowling | |
| 03b71ea | Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in a society where total honesty prevails. Can you imagine the conversations? You're short and fat, one person might say, and the other might answer, I know. But you smell bad. It just wouldn't work. So people lie by omission all the time. People will tell you most of the story...and I've learned that the.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2c0f511 | I found him carefully studying me, his lips in a thin line. "Has anyone ever taken care of you?" he asked quietly. "No." I'd long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it." | love tamlin taking-care protection | Sarah J. Maas | |
| dab7d3c | More about Howl? Sophie thought desperately. I have to blacken his name! Her mind was such a blank that for a second it actually seemed to her that Howl had no faults at all. How stupid! 'Well, he's fickle, careless, selfish, and hysterical,' she said. 'Half the time I think he doesn't care what happens to anyone as long as alright--but then I find out how awfully kind he's been to someone. Then I think he's kind just when it suits him--o.. | howl-s-moving-castle sophie howl | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| 3ab6bca | A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old. | humor genius | Eoin Colfer | |
| 4ab7e1f | I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to ca.. | romance hurmor rhett scarlett margaret-mitchell | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 2bf0cdd | We teach girls shame. "Close your legs. Cover yourself." We make them feel as though being born female they're already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up -- and this is the worst thing we do to girls -- they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an a.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 13639d3 | And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. | time life aging | Martin Amis | |
| 95176f7 | The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choki.. | words thoughts | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e9582ad | I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 01aa6b5 | Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. | superstition | Adam Smith | |
| 3e7770b | You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. | time life-and-living time-passing | José Saramago | |
| 1b4ecb9 | And when you love someone you don't always see them realistically. | infatuation | P.C. Cast | |
| 4dd9609 | I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's. | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| f51672f | Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with. | existence problem humor no-remorse invention voltaire atheist inventions | Christopher Hitchens | |
| d127fdb | Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 59f2b2b | It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. | truth-telling protest | Neil Gaiman | |
| 4177a63 | Beware of Doors. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 71a3210 | Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 7ad5f23 | Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage. | suffering past | Joyce Meyer | |
| 19b15f3 | Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| b8b1a00 | People living alone get used to loneliness. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 31d1ea5 | The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. | simile witty | George R.R. Martin | |
| a92a2ae | Yeah, well. I don't try to be awesome. It just comes natural. | funny gleeson-hedge the-lost-hero | Rick Riordan | |
| ccdb438 | If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic. | Holly Black | ||
| ebd570c | Death's favorites don't die. | Holly Black | ||
| dd15601 | No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 495777f | You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons." | humour euphemism political-correctness | Terry Pratchett | |
| ae51c4b | When people see some things as beautiful | lao-tzu good beauty inspirational tao-te-ching worldview evil | Lao Tzu | |
| 3cb419f | Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. | action responsibility inspirational thought | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
| d5599bc | Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you. | life-and-living life-lessons life inspirational | Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S | |
| 01f5423 | Get comfortable with being uncomfortable! | exercise life-lessons inspirational fitness determination | Jillian Michaels | |
| ee83fa4 | Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. | inspirational | Earl Nightingale | |
| dadaf7b | Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. | inspirational | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| a12fb4c | Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 08bb5fd | True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. | madness guilt | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 253fdfa | We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home. | eternity | John O'Donohue | |
| f3bf17c | I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze." ( , November 1913)" -- | writing spite | D.H. Lawrence | |
| d0a86fb | You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| b040eca | I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you." "I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists." | seeing-dogs | Kelley Armstrong |