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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 105cac7 | The very quality of your life, whether you love it or hate it, is based upon how thankful you are toward God. It is one's attitude that determines whether life unfolds into a place of blessedness or wretchedness. Indeed, looking at the same rose bush, some people complain that the roses have thorns while others rejoice that some thorns come with roses. It all depends on your perspective. This is the only life you will have before you enter.. | thanksgiving thanks | Francis Frangipane | |
| b06ae65 | History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated. | time | Julian Barnes | |
| 46c9a89 | A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid. | epic tyrion-lannister george-r-r-martin a-song-of-ice-and-fire | George R.R. Martin | |
| 6bf3afc | Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 1e61dd4 | I have a new name for pain. The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. | pain saphira | Christopher Paolini | |
| 7270407 | The others had taken Valek's return in stride, although Janco made a comment about Valek's lack of hair. 'You ever notice how couples start to look alike?' he asked. In a deadpan, Valek replied, 'Yes. In fact I was just thinking how much you and Topaz resemble each other. It's uncanny. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 14cbaa3 | For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die. | suicide desperation | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 1802e34 | The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 5d71d07 | Avoid loud and aggressive persons | philosophical inspirational | Max Ehrmann | |
| 0d96a80 | No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? | action history destiny change motivational success life inspirational seize-the-day today | Steve Maraboli | |
| 4214a24 | Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read. | reading books inspirational | Neil Gaiman | |
| c1f592f | And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about. | inspirational | Shane Claiborne | |
| ef53ab8 | She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the birds away | inspirational | Neil Gaiman | |
| ea47039 | I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1a35878 | Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing. | daemon-black-pov | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| a3d1b4e | The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts | Max Brooks | ||
| 5e490c5 | Yay!" Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug--even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it." | hugs octavian tyson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| a1e6307 | She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure. "Oh, God." "Nay, lass. Connor." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 516fb7e | The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. | Italo Calvino | ||
| 9a835b9 | Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d3dc912 | He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. | questions | Elie Wiesel | |
| 80fe8a5 | Wanderer: You don't really feel that way about me you know. It's this body... she's pretty isn't she? Ian: She is. Melanie is a very pretty girl. Even beautiful. But pretty as she is, she is a stranger to me. She's not the one I... care about. Wanderer: It's this body. Ian: That's not true at all. It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what they say. It's not how you look like in that body, it's what you do wi.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 60522d7 | Edward spoke in a voice so peaceful and gentle that it made the words strangely more threatening. "I'm not going to kill you now, because it would upset Bella." "Hmph," I grumbled. Edward turned slightly to throw me a quick smile. His face was still calm. "It would bother you in the morning," he said, brushing his fingers across my cheek. The he turned back to Jacob. "But if you ever bring her back damaged again--and I don't care whos.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 40b77d3 | That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain. | hurt | Amy Tan | |
| 0e7c035 | Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorr.. | humor fantasy-literature | Lewis Carroll | |
| d353196 | Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| a35cde9 | With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| ac45d02 | But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day. | romance reality love | Tom Robbins | |
| 3aaeb10 | Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - total passion for the total height - you're incapable of anyt.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 488ff5d | If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough. | John Grisham | ||
| dd07f9c | We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| cbc8d24 | Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among .. | spirituality religion | Kahlil Gibran | |
| a472023 | Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in.. | magic garden secrets | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 6c9ec0d | He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived! | J K Rowling | ||
| 0fa7619 | Hermione, if Harry's seen a Grim, that's -- that's bad," he said. "My -- my uncle Bilius saw one and -- and he died twenty-four hours later!" "Coincidence," said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice. "You don't know what you're talking about!" said Ron, starting to get angry. "Grims scare the living daylights out of most wizards!" "There you are, then," said Hermione in a superior tone. "They see the Grim and die of fright. .. | harry-potter hermione ron prisoner-of-azkaban j-k-rowling | J.K. Rowling | |
| c27844f | I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-" Lily: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1e0ae7d | You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4dbb562 | what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e6a4801 | All love stories are the same. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 040cae3 | There are no gods left to watch, I'm afraid. And there are no gods left to help you now, Aelin Galathynius.' Aelin smiled, and Goldryn burned brighter. 'I am a god. | koa throne-of-glass sarah-j-maas tog | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b8f73fa | No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. | philosophy | Virginia Woolf | |
| 52052c7 | When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. | Dean Koontz | ||
| 29d2886 | Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 7fdd1b4 | He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. | Jeanette Winterson |