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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7d5077a | I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater. | compassion compliments inspirational love motivational resolution | Steve Maraboli | |
| 79ea06f | If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. | dissent inspirational moral-courage public-opinion religion | Abraham Lincoln | |
| a9c8682 | This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness. | goodbye | Juliet Marillier | |
| fbfe690 | So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 8acda3d | she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to t.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e3e7dbd | Paper is more patient than man. | life thoughts writing | Anne Frank | |
| a18857e | We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. | John Fowles | ||
| 2330b80 | Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource. | bond giving recognition relationship resource romance | Bell Hooks | |
| 21b3a4b | More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 48eac8c | I don't need a cloak to become invisible. | cloak invisible | J.K. Rowling | |
| 733d482 | We've got it [Percy's Head Boy badge]," Fred whispered to Harry. "We're improving it." The badge now read ." | george percy weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| c30fba0 | Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 6605c1d | Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him. | hesse restlessness siddhartha soul | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7e57dd9 | Passed over one of those mountains, where a winged male stood beside a heavily pregnant female, gazing at those very stars. Fae. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7418454 | The Queen of Flame and Shadow, the Heir of Fire, Aelin of the Wildfire, Fireheart... | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8582483 | There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based." | freedom | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6c0f247 | No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny." | atheist gods religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 5047099 | High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there. | David Sedaris | ||
| af99b00 | It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window. | mental-illness | Sam Harris | |
| 64bb692 | My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 8879576 | In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos. | greek-mythology youth | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 163fc59 | Life minus love equals zero. | Rick Warren | ||
| 495e7ef | Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor." | Neal Stephenson | ||
| c65f858 | You're wonderful. Unique. I love you. | Truman Capote | ||
| a090a84 | I don't go to mythical places with strange men. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 9ed857d | But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in? | Éowyn | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 70d33b4 | I don't forgive him," I said. "Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours?" | coping life-lessons | Kelley Armstrong | |
| c74ea3e | Come over the hills and far with me And be my love in the rain. | Robert Frost | ||
| 050df1c | Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him. | breaking-dawn twilight-quote | Stephenie Meyer | |
| e999dcd | My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist. | simone-elkeles | Simone Elkeles | |
| 52a4b65 | Somehow, being with Brittany brings something to my life that's missing, something ... right. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 92f5b09 | Thought is free. | freedom-of-thought thought | William Shakespeare | |
| 768e063 | But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am. | William Shakespeare | ||
| d208fe9 | Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot. | James Patterson | ||
| 2e39df3 | If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven." | Emily Brontë | ||
| e62477c | He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why. | love marguerite-duras the-lover | Marguerite Duras | |
| a8b0884 | Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 355b951 | It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 9689cda | When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 541211d | Barking spiders! | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 9f42187 | The mage pulled my knife out of his side and looked at it. "Nice knife." The voice was deep but female. I threw my second knife. The blade bit into the mage's chest. Shit. Missed the neck. "Here, have another one." | fight kate sarcasm | Ilona Andrews | |
| d37ccc8 | The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 9446fd9 | And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. | faith god grace | Anonymous | |
| e36e4d5 | The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus. | focus intensity time | Robert Greene |