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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | money wealth positive-thinking motivational new-age stephen-richards mind-power worthy self-help | Stephen Richards | |
| 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 | |
| 5bda9ad | Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis. (This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work) | Paula Hawkins | ||
| 76699d8 | That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. | nihilism theater | Eugène Ionesco | |
| c447ee7 | The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. | loss letting-go | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 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 .. | emotion truth brainwashing cheat falsity orthodox religionists bias indoctrination conformity value evidence atheism atheist honor | 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. | people life inspirational | 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. | prayer spirituality inspirational | Anne Lamott | |
| 44b1b4b | He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend? | war inspirational | 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 inspired instadaily instaquote pinquotes poems quoteoftheday relationships rmdrake spokenword vsco writer poetry writing quote hope inspirational inspirationalquotes sadquotes typewriter tattoo sayings lovequotes quotes | 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 yoga meditation | Patanjali | |
| 7c20156 | Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one. | goodness wisdom inspirational self-actualization being | Marcus Aurelius | |
| 8ee7543 | Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others. | things-to-do-before-death life-lessons inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| d0c85c1 | I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| a0a87a6 | When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 1832b8a | If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. | happy visit friend anticipation | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| ed168db | It's the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It's the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible... and he loves me anyway. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| f14189e | Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| b5e0f36 | You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. | fingernails manicure nails despair | Ian McEwan | |
| fde0417 | Always winter but never Christmas. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 46eb3ad | Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it? | Ken Kesey | ||
| d306d04 | I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that. | live-life | Ray Bradbury | |
| f756327 | I want you, and I want you forever. One lifetime is simply not enough for me. | breaking-dawn twilight-quote | Stephenie Meyer | |
| bece361 | Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one t.. | identity | Samuel Beckett | |
| 4580041 | It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. | heart love | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| d647be2 | 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." | prayer spirituality | Anne Lamott | |
| 6ffc711 | I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today! | Henry Miller | ||
| 0c70c42 | To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 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 |