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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 230b84b | Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. | Mary Oliver | ||
| 273d808 | You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 2071c18 | Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 66a05ee | There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. | sadness | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 0bab55f | sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next! | love shopaholic sophie | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 791334d | There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ed5d121 | Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show h.. | feminism education knowledge-power quip school | Doris Lessing | |
| 25cc9e2 | It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. | knowledge | Hilary Mantel | |
| d937ccf | Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful. | never-stop-believing never-stop-learning being-positive live gratitude trying inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational try believe | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 58896ef | One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. | virtue poetry wine | Charles Baudelaire | |
| b3611f5 | I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me. | loneliness personality people differences emotions | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| cd7411d | So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired. | humour nathaniel-gray will-herondale wit | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0b2283a | when it comes down to it, that's what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can't show up anymore. | inspirational | Rebecca Walker | |
| bedcf15 | The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine. | love edward | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 6ac92a7 | Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. | limitations confidence inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life spirituality empowerment inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational believe-in-yourself talents potential spiritual-growth limits believe | Roy T. Bennett | |
| d1b867d | I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear .. | philosophy | Yann Martel | |
| 01184ff | Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings .. | wisdom-in-life pain freedom learning beauty inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life-lessons life wisdom inspirational living-life heal growing flying healing painful flight wisdom-quotes growth hurt wind experience wings hurting | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 4e0d13d | Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ad34794 | Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper hous.. | things-that-matter paper-towns nerdfighters | John Green | |
| 97566c1 | And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. | Charles Dickens | ||
| fa8ae01 | Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2b7090b | From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| f7d48a3 | People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 58afd67 | I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going." | last-words | John Green | |
| 2854058 | Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. | earth man greed inspirational indulgence conservation environment bounty need | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| c6f04b9 | Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something. | god parents | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 4fc7e41 | Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don't listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don't listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what's behind the words. | action integrity leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational actions integrity-quotes speaking listen speak communication listening honest curiosity | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 8c87887 | Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. | philosophy | Oscar Wilde | |
| 2fedd3d | Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 1224533 | Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. | darkness dark-plans stealth | William Shakespeare | |
| c5f1231 | If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you'll have to let me know. I'd like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I'm not sure which. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 09c3b49 | Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. | Jane Austen | ||
| 542150b | When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time--the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes--when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever--there co.. | grief loss | John Irving | |
| 3f81427 | He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables." Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it?" "Yes. What about "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm." He started muttering to himself. Zoe Nightshade turned to us. "Lord Apollo has been going through this haiku phase ever since he visited Japan. Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick. If I'd had to he.. | humor haiku artemis | Rick Riordan | |
| 61e541c | If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper--memo.. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 18bba7c | In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them. | understanding hate love epiphany | Orson Scott Card | |
| c25f7d1 | Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. | time future past ticking possibilities | Haruki Murakami | |
| a9a9e37 | And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes. | humanity | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| a47d5fa | It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart. | live-from-your-heart courage inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational brave | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 27547c3 | Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit. | rabbits | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3020d07 | That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them. | looking-for-alaska | John Green | |
| 5f8c379 | Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care. | humor half-blood rachel-elizabeth-dare | Rick Riordan | |
| d105245 | I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter." | silence remaining-silent reticence | Lewis Carroll | |
| 10d80c5 | But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin. | stories | Mitch Albom |