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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 61e9a13 | A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself. | self-knowledge true-to-yourself happiness life inspirational authenticity | Steve Maraboli | |
| 10774fb | Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. | inspirational | Benjamin Franklin | |
| 4742d67 | I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better. | optimism inspirational | Tom Hiddleston | |
| 1135c5e | Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop | inspirational | Gabrielle Zevin | |
| fd35997 | Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase. | purpose-of-life meaning-of-life | Michael Crichton | |
| b6d6776 | He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e394a16 | Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 1c10e93 | The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. | Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer | ||
| ad20f9b | The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| b07b1d2 | Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger." | C.S. Lewis | ||
| dd44b7a | Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 02782c5 | I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful- The eye of the little god, four cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me.. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 59a358a | I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 570b26a | I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot on the Cartoon Network anytime soon... except as a comic relief. Ghost Whisperer Junior. Or Ghost Screamer, more like it. Tune in, every week, as Chloe Saunders runs screaming from yet another ghost looking for her help." Okay, superpower might be pushing it." | humor powers | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 029b76e | There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 0eda61b | For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.... | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 1bcda1c | I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough. | love return-to-paradise simone-elkeles maggie caleb | Simone Elkeles | |
| aa79296 | For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| 9bedd07 | I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard. | James Patterson | ||
| 3addfdf | In the first place, his startling likeness to Catherine, connected him fearfully with her. That, however, which you may suppose the most potent to arrest my imagination, is actually the least - for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by d.. | Emily Brontë | ||
| 5ba2ebc | People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs. | Joan Didion | ||
| 6fee320 | Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. | inspirational | Arthur Golden | |
| 9b2e1af | It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters. | Rick Warren | ||
| e209cf7 | They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. | Charles Dickens | ||
| cbc64dd | To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| ac9d5f5 | And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a9af2df | What a blessing it is to love books. | reading | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| 84b2411 | The poor things keep calling in those - those pumbles, I think they're called - you know, the ones who mend pipes and things - " "Plumbers?" " - exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed." | humor plumber weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| f4b6440 | She did not seem to want to speak, or perhaps she was not able to, but she mad timid motions toward Neville, holding something in her outstretched hand. "Again?" said Mrs. Longbottom, sounding slightly weary. "Very well, Alice dear, very well- Neville, take it, whatever it is..." But Neville had already stretched out his hand, into which his mother dropped an empty Droobles Blowing Gum wrapper. "Very nice, dear," said Neville's grandmoth.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ad770a9 | Oh, very good,' interrupted Snape, his lip curling. 'Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent. | J. K. Rowling | ||
| 688191c | I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground si.. | spirit reality dreams soul | L.M. Montgomery | |
| cebe115 | But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all? | Libba Bray | ||
| 6738840 | Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 610ff46 | You didn't tell me this would happen." "You didn't ask. So how am I to blame?" | freyre rhysand rhys | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d26fec5 | Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty -- it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life -- froze it. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 09b8acf | For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache. | dreams desires contentment longing | Iain Pears | |
| c9950b2 | A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who s.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 0cb6507 | I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. | confidence social-anxiety self-esteem | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 841edb6 | Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With.. | humor pronunciation satire language wit | Gerard Nolst Trenité | |
| e92833b | Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 070cb0c | When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you | bridge childhood | Gail Carson Levine | |
| e55bd34 | you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, .. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 6e3fb3c | Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably. | love lovers-quarrels wooing | William Shakespeare | |
| 96f5250 | Oh for the sweet humpin' love of Tink! ~ Jenks | Kim Harrison |