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ac478e8 Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes. inspirational depressing Robert Jordan
edd625f To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. Milan Kundera
af6f80d 'drkn mndh zmn Twyl 'nh lm y`d blmkn qlb hdh l`lm, wl tGyyrh l~ l'fDl, wl yqf jrynh lby's l~ l'mm. lm ykn thm@ sw~ mqwm@ wHyd@ mmkn@ : 'lW n'khdhh `l~ mHml ljd Milan Kundera
7c987db Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember. pain scar Jodi Picoult
fe36ec5 Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other. Jodi Picoult
87140bb But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. religion C.S. Lewis
83a1cc9 Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone. inspirational lord christian alone fight Francine Rivers
61a202b Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else Stephen Fry
229be7c We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences psychological inspirational Nikola Tesla
50697b1 If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything. Robert M. Pirsig
64c4166 The media is the right arm of anarchy. Dan Brown
6b7a0ca to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know. learning doing Stephen R. Covey
7085dbc Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Thomas Pynchon
3fb0de4 There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless. Plato
118b5b1 And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life. J.K. Rowling
f4d23d4 Life was about spending time together , about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life has to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family? Nicholas Sparks
cd1e130 Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. pain feel experience P.D. James
a27affa We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes. Paulo Coelho
e98b180 Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth. inspirational Paulo Coelho
8591726 The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes. Paulo Coelho
467c155 She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs. J.D. Salinger
3f5ffaa I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. Tha.. Bret Easton Ellis
db6a4dc Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. love tragedies disappointment soul Thomas Moore
2f77c02 Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to? tortall Tamora Pierce
5e69aaa She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men. Tamora Pierce
574c3ad He'd swiftly collected those monsters' heads, tying them together with a piece of the rope she'd hoped never to see again, then strung them over his shoulder. Periodically, he offered his catch to her. "No, no, I have a pair just like them at home," she'd said. "I would just regift them." Kresley Cole
1612406 Ever since I was a little girl and could barely talk, the word 'why' has lived and grown along with me. It's a well-known fact that children ask questions about anything and everything, since almost everything is new to them. That is especially true of me, and not just as a child. Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions. I have to admit that it can be annoying sometimes, but I comfort myself with the thought that "You won't.. Anne Frank
8891e87 One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withhold.. love inspirational self-acceptance self-love Bell Hooks
389797b Life did not stop, and one had to live. life inspirational Leo Tolstoy
9abe45d Your job then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers that will help you move ever closer to divinity. The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship--just so long as those prayers are sincere. I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace.. Elizabeth Gilbert
cbe560a You have been to hell, Ketut?" He smiled. Of course he's been there. What's it like in hell?" Same like in heaven," he said. He saw my confusion and tried to explain. "Universe is a circle, Liss." He said. "To up, to down -- all same, at end." I remembered an old Christian mystic notion: As above, so below. I asked. "Then how can you tell the difference between heaven and hell?" Because of how you go. Heaven, you go up, through seven happ.. Elizabeth Gilbert
bf78206 In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian ma.. Hannah Arendt
1a4c70f So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me." She triangled her fingers under her chin. "Let's see. Are you a bed wetter?" "Am I a...?" "Bed wetter. I am asking if you are a bed wetter." I knew she was trying to get me to blink. But I wouldn't. "No, ma'am. I leave my beds dry." "Not even a little drip every now and then?" "I'm trying hard to see how this is germane." "I'm gauging your honesty. What is the.. humor David Levithan
ce9ac58 I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time. David Levithan
eb555c5 Curran looked at me. "What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling?" -- Ilona Andrews
9849b96 This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight. David Sedaris
9b6e104 Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. inspirational Susanna Kaysen
bb6e3dc For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. Jack Kerouac
610e6fd His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line." Jack Kerouac
a469478 You look wonderful", Jason said. "No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie." "Then by all means take it off." blake hunter jason vampire Laurell K. Hamilton
84eabf5 ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all. Shel Silverstein
eee88c6 The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does. Kim Harrison
fec9632 You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all. Iyanla Vanzant
f236ebd Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see. fear nowhere Neil Gaiman