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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc20ad8 | But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 7bbb275 | Imagine others complexly. | inspiration life philosophy wisdom inspirational | John Green | |
| d391fd5 | My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss. | quote old quotes | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| b5bfe4c | Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 8171253 | When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 705a3dd | I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect. | sugar-daddy | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 7af99c7 | A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy | woman women happiness | John Irving | |
| 3ba0e50 | It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 22b3e98 | The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people. | people humanity | Jim Butcher | |
| 215dc3c | May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch | revenge happy humour strife funny humor inspirational amusing malediction anger | Keisha Keenleyside | |
| 5b923e7 | You are a human with one life and its up to you to make it the best life you can. | inspirational attitude | Dan Howell | |
| 96f1fb7 | Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. | motivational inspirational faulkner | William Faulkner | |
| 7e9b178 | Here lies one whose name was writ on water. | lasting-words inspirational tombstone-inscription | John Keats | |
| 0fff19e | Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? | inspirational | Marcus Aurelius | |
| 771ad26 | It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. | inspirational | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 403dde3 | At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. | inspirational | Albert Schweitzer | |
| 06a0f39 | The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ca8fd69 | Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c8600cd | The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together. | story | Orson Scott Card | |
| 90337f5 | But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly. | THOMAS JEFFERSON | ||
| d34b337 | Alex fainted-" "I didn't faint," I grumbled, feeling my cheeks flush. Aiden's lip curved up on one side. "Okay. She was suddenly not walking or talking anymore..." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b920509 | There's truths you have to grow into. | maturity | H.G. Wells | |
| c291686 | No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon | Rick Riordan | ||
| db93b65 | The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey. A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!' A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. 'No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol. | humour | Rick Riordan | |
| a3641d0 | But Grover's voice was already growing fainter. 'Sweet dreams. Don't let me die! | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9ad91bc | The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school. | fiction funny fantasy intense | Rick Riordan | |
| 569e699 | I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 2daacea | I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. Its easy to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence - easier sometimes than to wait patiently. | trust waiting | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| e12e4fd | It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth. | close-mindedness hypothesis open-mindedness | Milan Kundera | |
| 3d020eb | Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 11a1be2 | Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| eacfb17 | When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bb1a1f9 | In dreams begins responsiblities. | responsiblities | Haruki Murakami | |
| d80c128 | The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It i.. | suicide work life | Walker Percy | |
| 66fec3c | Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them. | happy god love selfish selfishness | William Nicholson | |
| 13490ef | She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse. | prayer sorrow heartache | Marilynne Robinson | |
| 276bf69 | When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone. | Albert Camus | ||
| 06bd1f6 | Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not your secret to tell. | secrets sharing-secrets | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 148168b | Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f94eb2c | Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution. | character maturity scars | Erin McCarthy | |
| e9eb62d | The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 7500894 | Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 46c0833 | The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| bcffe44 | Where's your hat?" He squints at me. "Mer? Is that you? Do I need my scarf? Will it be cold, Mummy?" | Stephanie Perkins |