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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6710340 | Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit. | inspirational | Andrew Matthews | |
| 8cb0a26 | courage inspirational life | ???? ????? | ||
| 93bedf3 | it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded. | courage inspirational life | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 6485917 | The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them. | change happiness inspirational personal-responsibility potential power responsibility success victim | Steve Maraboli | |
| 828ecf7 | A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| cc5dd13 | Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!" | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6091c22 | Wildness is the preservation of the World. | nature wilderness | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 2812d97 | But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew -- , thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, -- that there was all the difference in the world. | battle death dumbledore pride | J.K. Rowling | |
| ed0ae0e | You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1af9be9 | But this too is true: stories can save us. | tim-obrien vietnam-war | Tim O'Brien | |
| ef6a1f4 | I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while--just once in a while--there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned! | education wisdom | J.D. Salinger | |
| e0da567 | I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0d70783 | Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute. | David Sedaris | ||
| 4bf8bd4 | As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,--as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],--and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruptio.. | christian-religion separation-of-church-and-state united-states-government | John Adams | |
| 2865200 | There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9fbe6b0 | Face it, you stupid little cookie maker," Jenks said, almost sounding fond, "in the last couple of days you've seen what it's like to be in a family, with all the touchy tempers and irritation that goes on. Now you get to see the other side, where we do stupid stuff for each other just because we like you. Rache is the little sister. Ivy's the big sister. I'm the uncle from out of state, and you're the rich nephew no one likes but we put up.. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 46a29af | The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. | work writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| 092ecee | There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| d2f0901 | The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline." | h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy humor marvin | Douglas Adams | |
| 3e9a629 | Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 114672c | It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| f68bea8 | Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. | death deserved hell karma lestat lestat-de-lioncourt louis punishment remorse vampire | Anne Rice | |
| a06ebcd | Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 3e63caf | INTO MY OWN One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set for.. | Robert Frost | ||
| 1f34730 | By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. | mother sun | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 1d528fd | dear kiara, The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose shows love. And the rosery is the only thing i own that i care for, its yours i'm yours C | love | Simone Elkeles | |
| 014c898 | I whirled around and saw no one. No psychotic mad scientists, anyway. "Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was was Fang, and he was giggling hysterically. For those of you just joining us, Fang doesn't giggle. Especially hysterically. So for a second, this seemed like one of the weirder dreams of recent days. " | James Patterson | ||
| f28831e | Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 023d449 | I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. | Harper Lee | ||
| 8d7f1bc | Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over. I know how wrong this is. When I was a child, I didn't understand. I would wake up in a new body and wouldn't comprehend why things felt muted, dimmer. Or the opposite--.. | mental-illness | David Levithan | |
| 79a7dbc | we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6611a93 | History admits no rules; only outcomes. | David Mitchell | ||
| 82c7ad1 | Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila. | drinking tequila | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 3e82b81 | And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels. | complicated deed evil good labels name people | Philip Pullman | |
| 2dabbae | It's tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won't be able to deal with it. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| dfcddf8 | Let your conscience be your guide. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c81aee4 | Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you ca.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1ed345c | Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even vicious: they are .. | wordplay | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 3ab39f3 | Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody read." [As quoted in | censorship reading | George Bernard Shaw | |
| dc5c4be | All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. | free-speech progress | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 1f4d672 | There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell | Mitch Albom | ||
| 114e02f | The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 671b239 | Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are. That's my defini.. | life literature reading | Ray Bradbury | |
| e9cf48f | I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. | Alice Walker |