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| 2865f69 | Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex. | inspirational complexity | M. Scott Peck | |
| b7d54f3 | Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. | war yossarian wwii ironic rights | Joseph Heller | |
| f4a5fe2 | It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan. | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| 2e2dc83 | I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! With the rational respect that is due to it, knavish priests have added prostitutions of it, that fill or might fill the blackest and bloodiest pages of human history. { ] | grief bloody religious-violence priests cross jefferson thomas-jefferson | John Adams | |
| 6912fbd | Do you know why a heart lays claim? Survival. That heart lays its claim to ensure survival of its kind. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 3a5ac68 | Anyway, back to the kids." "Well, one is a girl who looks about your age, and there's a boy." She grinned as she stood. "He's a hottie." A tiny piece of egg caught in my throat. It was seriously gross to hear Mom talking about boys my age. "Hottie? Mom that's just weird." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 057eb65 | And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 5b4d5e2 | Cupid said. "Great," Jason said. "Now he's spouting greeting card messages." | love eros heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 7e41850 | Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need. | inspirational equity fairness | Rick Riordan | |
| 372b889 | Eat bitter, taste sweet | Rick Riordan | ||
| 06aa1e3 | Some of the best demigods have gotten their start by blowing up toilets. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3701ad5 | This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea. | women | Margaret Atwood | |
| 072b25d | But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all. | Albert Camus | ||
| e743aed | Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you. | Dodie Smith | ||
| 4c91daf | Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| aa9c35c | For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7edcb86 | Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall .. | faith holocaust | Elie Wiesel | |
| 8a1c49d | Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| f739db3 | This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world. | gazebo pessimism | Raymond Carver | |
| 1f52e9a | When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead, we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| ed56280 | Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name? | Anne Rice | ||
| 899a5c7 | A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor." | meaning reason humor lestat singer luxury logic vampire | Anne Rice | |
| 34f8e9b | I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 017c679 | And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. | Albert Camus | ||
| 9991c08 | How old are you?" "Seventeen," he answered promptly. "And how long have you been seventeen?" His lips twitched as he stared at the road. "A while," he admitted at last." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d5c248b | Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through our two skulls, from my brain to his. I wanted to make him understand some things. You know all that stuff we've always said about you?" I whispered. "What a total pain you are? Don't believe it. Don't believe it for a minute, Marley." He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that .. | John Grogan | ||
| 195a63d | Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know. | John Berendt | ||
| 88a4c7c | How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 0282655 | Jeb: But I need to tell you something first. Max (thinking): | James Patterson | ||
| 6f10e5f | I've got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 2ae029c | Don't let yourself be victimized by the age you live in. It's not the times that will bring us down, any more than it's society. When you put the blame on society, then you end up turning to society for the solution. Just like those poor neurotics at the Care Fest. There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsiblity and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It's not men who li.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| b3d9028 | O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before. | Joan Didion | ||
| 7489d6e | Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage. | James Frey | ||
| c647c63 | I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy. | John Eldredge | ||
| 4764faf | The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 9ca1fb7 | he asked, "Where are you today, right now?" Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However, I noticed that I was still being sidetracked from getting answers to my questions. Still, I told him about my distant and recent past and about my inexplicable depressions. He listened patiently and intently, as if he had all the time in the world, until I finished several hours later. "Very well," he said. "But you still have not answered my quest.. | universe philosophy listening mystery | Dan Millman | |
| e0c2707 | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get acros.. | humor douglas-adams | Douglas Adams | |
| a65685c | The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start. | music | Jodi Picoult | |
| 21d3a1b | But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c8b6d25 | That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 552810a | khalepa ta kala Nothing beautiful without struggle. | Plato | ||
| 0e56120 | HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO!" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b62fc5f | She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| eb8d341 | You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him. | J.K. Rowling |