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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2430d1b | For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all. | solitude loneliness bravery freedom inspirational | Isabelle Eberhardt | |
| 07cf5a6 | Rule your mind or it will rule you. | be-yourself be-strong stay-strong independence inspiration living strength life inspirational the-mind rule self-help | Horace | |
| 2519c41 | Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, "There is always a day of reckoning." The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits--ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human's life work: to construct an iden.. | psychology-spirituality karma meaning inspiration inspirational-quotes identity life-lessons inspirational ethical fulfillment personal-development meaning-of-life ethics psychology | Donald Van de Mark | |
| 966d6b8 | What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality. | inspirational hate-crimes homophobia | Alex Sanchez | |
| 9c304b2 | And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time. | Donald Miller | ||
| caf1bdd | As you say of yourself, I too am an . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us. [ ] | epicureanism philosophy-rome secular-morality epicurus secular-ethics moral-philosophy greece | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 7e46180 | They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. | Franz Kafka | ||
| d3d8341 | Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a start, none of us know what kind of an effort this represents for the individual reader. It could be his or her first full-length adult novel; it might be the book that finally reveals the purpose and joy of reading to someone who has hitherto been mystified by the attraction books exert on others. And anyway, reading for enj.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 83cd52d | Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the end they always left. They came, seeking something, but either they couldn't find it, or were unhappy with what they found (or else they were disappointed or angry), and then they left. One day, without warning, they vanished, with no explanation, no word of farewell. Like a silent hatchet had sliced the ties between them, ties through which .. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e63446d | Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f3d29ea | Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who's precious to you. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3e05229 | You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d0c49a9 | Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d2f2833 | Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 286ab70 | remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c894ec1 | And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| dd5a4d4 | The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. | life | C.S. Lewis | |
| 7483b78 | The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. | love misattributed-elie-wiesel indifference | Wilhelm Stekel | |
| 7046199 | Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from. | the-bridle | Raymond Carver | |
| 61b17ae | So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined. | vampires | Stephenie Meyer | |
| e5c47fc | What are you working on?" I ask. "The last page." He gestures towards the table, where a pencilled sketch is being turned into inked brushstrokes. It's a drawing of us, in this cafe, in this moment. I smile up at him "It's beautiful. But what comes next?" "The best part." And he pulls me back into his arms. "The happily ever after." | love josh | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 94187c8 | That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 5ae2432 | You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 55cbec3 | When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age.In middle age I was assured greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. Four hoarse blasts of a ships's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping... | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6c9f2f1 | L'enfer, c'est les autres. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 264b461 | on grief) And you do come out of it, that's true. After a year, after five. But you don't come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 234ecfa | And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3b7b2eb | There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. | Herman Melville | ||
| 4742f08 | Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 907845a | Well, here goes," said Harry, and he raised the little bottle and took a carefully measured gulp. "What does it feel like?" whispered Hermione. Harry did not answer for a moment. Then, slowly but surely, an exhilarating sense of infinite opportunity stole through him; he felt as though he could have done anything, anything at all...and getting the memory from Slughorn seemed suddenly not only possible, but positively easy.... He got to his .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2752801 | The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 679f042 | Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 109c8df | You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed . | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 9d4ec7a | But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 78a8387 | Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. | Agatha Christie | ||
| c705b48 | I love, I can only love the one I've left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I extinguished myself and shot myself through the heart. But never, never have I ceased to love that one, and even on the night I parted from him I loved him perhaps more poignantly than ever. We can truly love only with suffering and through suffering! We know not how to love otherwise. We know no other love. I want suffering in order.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f4bc7b9 | There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 9f6cda7 | She kept watching the words. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 81ba73a | I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something - the eternal 'what's the use?' - sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis. | perseverance depression despair | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 73a8e49 | everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home. | David Levithan | ||
| 5a99c04 | I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there." | Charles Bukowski | ||
| b965bb3 | People generally didn't cheat in good relationships. | relationships | Emily Giffin | |
| ec7455e | Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. | nativity christmas jesus-christ | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 7cbe11c | You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed." I smirked and the tea almost came out of my nose. "He'd run like he was on fire." | magic-burns ilona-andrews curran kate-daniels kate | Ilona Andrews |