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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7f56cbf | The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane. | sanity majority-view | Erich Fromm | |
| 78c0642 | Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.' 'Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others. 'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl. | sexism | Terry Pratchett | |
| f9ff41a | Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7cf2624 | He murmured her name, tenderly taking her face in his hands. "I love you," he said, his voice low and fervent. "I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be." "I love you with my past, and I love you for my future." He bent forward and kissed her, once, softly, on the lips. "I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles, and even more.. | romance love penelope colin | Julia Quinn | |
| c17f76b | When I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself, | science simplicity | Walt Whitman | |
| adac94e | Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. | Walt Whitman | ||
| e117eb1 | I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . | lovers the-notebook lost-love | Walt Whitman | |
| e7d0439 | Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 759437c | l '`tqd 'nn 'Sbn bl`m~, bl nHn `myn mn lbdy@. Ht~ lw kn nr~.. lm nkn Hqan nr~ | José Saramago | ||
| 2bfec88 | If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 098a2be | You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. | Richard Bach | ||
| 1c55e0c | We can't hold hands-- Someone might see. Won't you please Hold toes with me? | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 01531b4 | I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. | fantasy religion illusions delusions | Christopher Hitchens | |
| c6a95a1 | Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away." It was the first time I had relinquished my will to someone else. As I looked at him, it became easy, and I retreated from the suffering and uncertainty of this strange place." | sookie-stackhouse vampire | Charlaine Harris | |
| 69892f1 | What fire does not destroy, it hardens | inspirational spiritual-growth | Oscar Wilde | |
| ca19741 | I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's a thin layer of nerd all over everything." said Jace. "Thanks. I appreciate that." Simon gave Jace a hard look." | humor jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| c36519e | Alec: Catarina made up the Bermuda Triangle? Magnus: Don't be ridiculous, Alexander. That was Ragnor. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 72fd88d | People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you. | family friendship inspirational simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| a37b343 | The bad things can't matter more than the good things | shadowhunters lord-of-shadows | Cassandra Clare | |
| fed19f8 | Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do. | mortal-instruments simon | Cassandra Clare | |
| 60462ac | We?" Simon looked at him in disbelief. "Are you ever going home?" "What, bored with my company already?" "Let me ask you something," Simon said. "Do you find me fascinating to be around?" "What was that?" Jace said. "Sorry, I think I fell asleep for a moment. Do, continue with whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying." | humor jace-wayland simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| ce5c10b | Her green eyes flutter all the way open, and she looks amused. It pricks his ego slightly. After kiss, shouldn't she be fainting at his feet? But she's grinning. | clary-fray jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2547ab4 | The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it. | Stephen King | ||
| 279dc9e | The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. | muse ghosts | Stephen King | |
| 0704e6d | Te pasas toda la vida atorado en el laberinto, pensando en como vas a escapar de ahi un dia y que fabuloso sera; imaginar ese futuro te mantiene con vida, pero nunca te escapas. Solo utilizas el futuro para escapar del presente. | frases john-green | John Green | |
| 8e339c1 | He really was beautiful. I know boys aren't supposed to be, but he was. | personality | John Green | |
| 97c7a03 | It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 0283eb8 | It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar." | Veronica Roth | ||
| baff43f | When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it's beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 9175be5 | Wait--we have one left," the runner said, bringing out what was surely the most expensive bouquet of all: a three-foot tall arrangement of two hundred white roses, in the palest ivory color. All the girls swooned. Almost no boys bought white roses ever. It was a big sign of commitment. But this one practically trumpeted a captured heart. The runner set the bouquet in front of Schuyler. Mimi raised an eyebrow. She had always won the roses lo.. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6b45a4a | It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. | sensitivities introversion | Susan Cain | |
| fcf7be1 | We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted. | temperament | Susan Cain | |
| ed14ea3 | In many parts of this world water is Scarce and precious. People sometimes have to walk A great distance Then carry heavy jugs upon their Heads. Because of our wisdom, we will travel Far for love. All movement is a sign of Thirst. Most speaking really says "I am hungry to know you." Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy. Dear one, Why wait until you are dying To discover that divine Truth?" | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez | ||
| 4c59280 | I have no use for divine patience - My lips are now burning and everywhere. I am running from every corner of this earth and sky Wanting to kiss you. | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez | ||
| 495b526 | I've had a tense couple of days. And I've got to tell you, burning someone's face off sounds like a great way to relax. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 778f809 | My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads, you've won your little game. You have proven your thesis that no-body-loves-me-every-body-hates-me, guess-I'll-just-eat-worms. You get to sink back into your hospital bed, shrieking with righteous indignation. See? you get to say. I knew you'd give up on me. I knew you'd leave. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 854b1ce | Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached. | inspirational activism | Swami Vivekananda | |
| bc852af | The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes--very rarely--impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. | wisdom inspirational doctor-who | Steven Moffat | |
| a06e8a4 | To save all we must risk all. | risk inspirational save | Friedrich von Schiller | |
| ce82ad4 | Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable. | relationships love inspirational | Steve Maraboli | |
| 67ed82c | We are constantly invited to be what we are. | inspirational | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 42bf85f | All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential. | inspirational glbt | Harvey Milk | |
| 435e9b6 | To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. | accomplishment dream inspirational good-works | Anatole France | |
| 30aa451 | When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. | best-version version inspire motivational success happiness life inspirational being-yourself | Steve Maraboli |