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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f450c8 | Love breaks my | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 548ce18 | Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him." | darkness despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 804ca30 | Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller." | wit | Gail Carson Levine | |
| a3dab5b | Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. | reductionism science | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 04e2134 | He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get." | youth | Markus Zusak | |
| 9702878 | The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream. | canto-xxiv inferno | Dante Alighieri | |
| 6e60b0b | Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| a860231 | When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it. | mind-power money motivational new-age positive-thinking self-help stephen-richards wealth worthy | Stephen Richards | |
| 535e007 | It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 6b09785 | By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!" | howl howl-s-moving-castle sophie | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| 556d500 | We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or .. | atheism atheist bias brainwashing cheat conformity emotion evidence falsity honor indoctrination orthodox religionists truth value | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| c78011d | I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight." That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one. After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him." | writing | Stephen Chbosky | |
| cca958c | It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability. | marriage romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 39ce60f | I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone. | negativity | Meg Cabot | |
| cc2b5e8 | The fight isn't over until you win. | victory win | Robin Hobb | |
| eebfc97 | Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. | friends | Terry Pratchett | |
| 47a0890 | If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right. | inspirational life people | Evanescence | |
| dc54184 | Beannacht / Blessin | inspirational | John O'Donohue | |
| d5e8369 | Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom. | inspirational prayer spirituality | Anne Lamott | |
| 44b1b4b | He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend? | inspirational war | Herodotus | |
| dc10277 | Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it's the chaos which helps us find where we belong. | happyquotes hope inspirational inspirationalquotes inspired instadaily instaquote lovequotes pinquotes poems poetry quote quoteoftheday quotes relationships rmdrake sadquotes sayings spokenword tattoo typewriter vsco writer writing | robert m drake | |
| 266e899 | Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. | inspirational meditation yoga | Patanjali | |
| 7c20156 | Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one. | being goodness inspirational self-actualization wisdom | Marcus Aurelius | |
| 8490825 | that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 995bae7 | Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3005a98 | Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? | learn life power | Sidney Sheldon | |
| c821461 | The universe is wider than our views of it. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| e07f6ba | Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best. | Norton Juster | ||
| 29e2f4d | Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson" he says, "look up in the sky and tell me what you see." "I see millions of stars, Holmes," says Watson. "And what do you conclude from that, Watson?" | plato-and-platypus sherlock sherlock-holmes | Thomas Cathcart Daniel Klein | |
| 84bd0d4 | You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3a5719b | SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the darkness | severus-snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9c92375 | You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just -- exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. | dementors-kiss empty existence remus-lupin soul | J.K. Rowling | |
| 758d2bc | The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon. | Libba Bray | ||
| 816f78c | No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I'm cracking open. | gemma-doyle girl mirage society | Libba Bray | |
| 8bcf9ba | If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 8dd1cc5 | When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. | information sleep | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| c4d6940 | The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful - more than I can possibly say - that I was given this time with you all | court-of-dreams fantasy fiction new-adult rhys rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8a95a93 | What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements? | judgamental judgement mind | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f71aa5d | But I don't think of you. (Howard Roark) | Ayn Rand | ||
| b5ea9a3 | I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 22a7f76 | If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 391211f | Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them. | scars | Paulo Coelho | |
| baad7a7 | Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. | Jack London | ||
| 2287957 | A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. | drinking | Raymond Chandler |