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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d8a1157 | We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting. | Rick Riordan | ||
| d6684be | and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 043fd7d | I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE. | inspirational | Madonna | |
| 48b134b | Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. | inspirational life | Seneca | |
| d902034 | Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving. | achieve deserve inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 36f0ec4 | The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream. | inspirational les-brown | Les Brown | |
| 39ef3d2 | If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. | inspirational life-experience self-development | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| ea43f4a | Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. | goal goals inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| b5cc426 | Let's put the fun back in funeral! | Kresley Cole | ||
| 031c8d9 | I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| ce71ea7 | You confuse what's important with what's impressive. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 9f41f9b | Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own. | sadness | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 6f207b7 | Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8d19fbd | Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back - and at some point everyone looks back - she will hear her heart saying, "What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourse.. | risks suffering wasted | Paulo Coelho | |
| 3961712 | If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. | holden | J.D. Salinger | |
| b784391 | But this road doesn't go anywhere," I told him. "That doesn't matter." "What does?" I asked, after a little while. "Just that we're on it, dude," he said." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 9626c7c | The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 9c86f73 | I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me. | light love | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f1fd475 | Leave this world... a better place than how you found it. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0c0c1f9 | You might be my mate, he said, but you remain your own person. You decide your fate - your choices. Not me. You chose yesterday. You choose every day. Forever. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| db9fa27 | Suicide is a form of murder-- premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes some getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the .. | memoir mental-illness | Susanna Kaysen | |
| 0812054 | It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 9be71dc | Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| c11a2a6 | Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. | self | Ayn Rand | |
| ee724cb | Achievement is talent plus preparation | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 4989977 | Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!" A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye." A sword rang as it was drawn. "Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may." "Hinder me? Thou fool.. | Éowyn | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5301c23 | The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill of watching something die. Why does the stereotype of the animalistic killer persist? Because humans like it. It neatly explains things for them, moving humans to the top of the evolutionary ladder and putting killers down among mythological man-beast monsters like werewolves. The truth i.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| f28d52b | And now we can't," I said. "Which sucks, but the main thing is that your dad's alive." He smiled, hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug. Then he jumped, chair swiveling so fast I nearly went flying. I hear.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 9b1ecc7 | Derek and I went out for our walk after dinner. Alone. There was an open field behind the motel and we headed there. Finally, when we were far enough from the motel, Derek led me into a little patch of woods. He hesitated then, unsure, still just holding my hand. When I stepped in front of him, though, his free hand went around my waist. "So," I said. "Seems you're going to be stuck with me for a while." He smiled. A real smile that lit up.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 930ee72 | Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me." | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 0c46ec9 | The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. | knowledge problems | Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| 8ccd828 | Nothing is more real than nothing. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| ba9bd29 | the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed . | life-lessons | Simone Elkeles | |
| e07ca2a | I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method. | logical-thinking science | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| bf08700 | I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 64dd414 | To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can't sit still, move, or even go decently insane. | insanity pain | Charles Bukowski | |
| 953ef6f | The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 2e2665c | Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests .. | stay-at-home-moms work | Bill Watterson | |
| f1b7313 | The better organized the state, the duller its humanity. | philosophy | David Mitchell | |
| 870132d | Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. | evil greed labor need vice want weariness work | Voltaire | |
| aefda21 | You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 492451d | The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 60493bd | It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1600c9e | April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than.. | Barbara Kingsolver |