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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0ae2533 | Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 642e9ec | The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. | purpose-of-life | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 8e0c010 | Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. | pretty | Ishmael Beah | |
| f92772a | It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| b07a344 | My heart is so tired | Markus Zusak | ||
| 87308a4 | Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. | souls | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 27c9f5d | Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do. | religion bible god inspirational | Anonymous | |
| 6f07b9c | Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. "Absolutely spiffing." Percy scowled. "That's enough, now," said Mrs. Weasley. "Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seizing her hand too. "How really corking to see you-" | J. K. Rowling | ||
| b7b9a84 | I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 71d67f1 | Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. | self-reliance journey | Walt Whitman | |
| fe6c8f5 | Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can. | inspirational | The Dalai Lama | |
| b4724ce | Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. | life variety experience wine | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0fdf9e6 | Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. | resolve doubt self-doubt | William Shakespeare | |
| f49f943 | Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 18146bb | She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 6ca52c8 | I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter. | suicide sadness | Ned Vizzini | |
| 13d2d21 | I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. | understanding self-awareness seekers self-discovery search instinct knowledge | Hermann Hesse | |
| d1e9d54 | There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read--unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over. | reading humor luxury eating | E. Nesbit | |
| 4eb5225 | The best things in life make you sweaty. | philosophical life love inspirational puberty meaning-of-life purpose | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 9867b1c | Will's voice dropped. "Everyone makes mistakes, Jem." "Yes," said Jem. "You just make more of them than most people." "I --" "You hurt everyone," said Jem. "Everyone whose life you touch." "Not you," Will whispered. "I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you." Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. "Will --" "You can't never forgive me," Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. "I'd be --.. | loneliness jem-carstairs will-herondale mistakes | Cassandra Clare | |
| b7d80e0 | You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can't find anything. He's compulsive. | jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0241917 | Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more." | tragic snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| c96ca8d | If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. | Jane Austen | ||
| 92e395d | I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. | words depression fear life speaking | Andrew Solomon | |
| 4590068 | You don't think I can fight." Tessa said, drawing back and matching his silvery gaze with her own. "Because I'm a girl." "I don't think you can fight because you're wearing a wedding dress", said Jem. "For what it's worth, I don't think Will could fight in that dress either." "Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat'a. "But I would make a radiant bride." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 251d8d8 | My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great sat-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have..." I started crying. "Okay, how .. | John Green | ||
| 010221c | Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!" | dolphin-warriors mark-of-athena percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| e9c2e10 | The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. | Jack London | ||
| aa8ec87 | No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. | Nelson Mandela | ||
| a6b65dd | Ester asked why people are sad. "That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams." | future sadness happiness life plans | Paulo Coelho | |
| aec5205 | She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 199734d | I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. | life inspirational | Rainer Maria Rilke | |
| 5a33f80 | For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? | Jane Austen | ||
| 9c6d47a | Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?! | augustus-waters gus the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 5fd81d7 | there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 2223179 | ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 862c07d | The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters. | John Green | ||
| 62fe728 | And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. | strength | John Steinbeck | |
| 6c3629e | I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. | John Green | ||
| 4ec411c | We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face. "Sorry," she murrmured. "S'okay,".. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 09f8ffa | Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store. | Elizabeth Moon | ||
| 7671336 | Be empty of worrying | inspirational | Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi | |
| 70acad2 | People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going .. | marriage love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| cf80c08 | You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland! | J.R. Ward |