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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7335197 | The difference we wanna make is number one to let these kids know that they're not alone, that they're actually not that messed up and that they can do whatever they want; they can express themselves however they want, without being persecuted or called a faggot or some kind of racist thing. You know, really just to get people to get over their stuff so they can live. | inspirational | Gerard Way | |
| 6d7278e | Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. | happiness inspirational life rejection | Steve Maraboli | |
| 1112b92 | Never give up | ambition desires dreams drive effort hope inspirational perserverance richelle richelle-goodrich trying | Richelle E. Goodrich | |
| bfb6bf3 | God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive. | christian inspirational prayer spiritual | Fanny J. Crosby | |
| b3f935c | Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. | charity death goodness help inspirational | Marcus Aurelius | |
| bb94bd0 | Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. | eastern-philosophy hindu inspirational religious spirituality | A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | |
| f572e20 | I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 0119e8f | Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying - what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 1992aca | It is no use trying to sum people up. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| fd5d0e1 | Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. | notoriety | Virginia Woolf | |
| d28f2f4 | You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It's the playing that's irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 61dd5a5 | No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0c73f5d | A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. | reflection | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 86e9e9c | For I am--or I was--one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all--a real decision makes one humble, one knows.. | life personality pride virtue world | James Baldwin | |
| 4308a53 | Love, too, has to be learned. | love | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 1910df4 | He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cea11c5 | Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents," he added, staring through the dimness toward the ceiling of his sleepingroom. "And everybody would have the memories." "You know the memories," he whispered, turning toward the crib. Garbriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, thoug.. | gabriel love | Lois Lowry | |
| 4196534 | It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it. | Libba Bray | ||
| 2be60fb | Maybe we should always assume the worst. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3f6ae0a | My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 139eaaf | Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 27d54f2 | Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. | death flowers holden-caulfield j-d-salinger wry-humor | J.D. Salinger | |
| 56692e9 | Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost abstract. This was what I could understand, this was how.. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 39e82d5 | The things we see are the same things that are within us. There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0c755f1 | I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 466a83c | I`m thinking that I was a lonely, hopeless person, and I might have fallen in love with the first thing that showed me a hint of kindness and safety | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d4bb622 | Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky. | eve-rosser michael-glass parents reba shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| ddd5779 | When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| efa31d2 | I get so god damn lonely and sad and filled with regrets some days. It overwhelms me as I'm sitting on the bus; watching the golden leaves from a window; a sudden burst of realisation in the middle of the night. I can't help it and I can't stop it. I'm alone as I've always been and sometimes it hurts.... but I'm learning to breathe deep through it and keep walking. I'm learning to make things nice for myself. To comfort my own heart when I .. | anxiety-disorder being-happy books breath breathing bus december deep depression emotions feelings friendship gratitude growing-up happy heal healing heart joy learn learning letters life-quotes lonely lovely mental-health mental-wellness mindfulness minimalism moment night panic panic-attacks plan prose recovery regret sad sadness self-care sky trying well worries worrying | Charlotte Eriksson | |
| 6a63991 | See with your soul and not your eyes | P.C. Cast | ||
| 35676ac | Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. | Napoleon Hill | ||
| 3758a53 | Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame. | civilisation cowardice law | Frank Herbert | |
| adeff9e | These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| ef3c2f0 | Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew. | Dan Millman (Author) | ||
| 773a1b5 | It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5e9901b | What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2702530 | Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. | prophets religion | Umberto Eco | |
| b0a2bd5 | Emotion is contagious. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 0f7984d | You're really not right, are you? Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1a03ac6 | I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 0b30374 | Thomas Merton wrote, "there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues." There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, an.. | landscape nature seeing spirituality | Annie Dillard | |
| 309a916 | Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom.. | constancy love poetic romantic | William Shakespeare | |
| 86cd77c | This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrustin.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 22da6ae | Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. | William Shakespeare |