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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 life inspirational | ???? ????? | ||
| 93bedf3 | it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded. | courage life inspirational | 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. | responsibility change success happiness inspirational victim potential personal-responsibility power | Steve Maraboli | |
| 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 | ||
| d72c824 | Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. | friendship home | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1066514 | The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive. | Darren Shan | ||
| 4a1010c | If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud. | Henry Miller | ||
| f9ca029 | You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 335e113 | Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3f3a631 | Never pray for justice, because you might get some. | prayer | Margaret Atwood | |
| 26c87a4 | Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness. | John O'Donohue | ||
| d4788c6 | Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble. | Robert Jordan | ||
| bb812e8 | it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle. | Franz Kafka | ||
| af3e757 | when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 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.. | literature reading life | Ray Bradbury | |
| e9cf48f | I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. | Alice Walker | ||
| 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. | karma death deserved louis lestat lestat-de-lioncourt remorse punishment vampire hell | 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. | sun mother | 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 | ||
| 46a29af | The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. | writing work | 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." | humor marvin h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
| 3e9a629 | Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 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. | death dumbledore battle 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 | ||
| 7cedbdd | The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. | relationships inspiration motivation happiness planet sharing gardening eating food | Michael Pollan | |
| 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 | |
| a749063 | Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself. | suffering raskolnikov sonia | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 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 |