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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 142046e | Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you. | happiness-quotes inner-peace inner-strength inspirational lifestyle meditation self-awareness self-discovery spiritual wisdom | Amit Ray | |
| ad3e8d9 | The More we value things, the less we value ourselves | inspirational | Bruce Lee | |
| c5473cf | I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals. | inspirational | Paolo Coelho | |
| 2b3b1bd | If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world. | inspirational | Alan Bradley | |
| 13c83ae | Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? | attitude enduring inspirational survival | Gregory Peck | |
| 60706ab | It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. | fascist inspirational | Benito Mussolini | |
| cd23325 | I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. | change excitement inspirational | Sylvia Plath | |
| ac2ec0f | It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: "It's just that I thought maybe you were married to me." | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 9f53ec3 | Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?" | literature | Donna Tartt | |
| 32fba02 | Darwin says people like you need to die." (Carrow)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| e59c4ee | Lothaire is very much alive." "You swear?" "Often. Though not as much as foul-mouthed Regin. I try not to in front of Bertil." She petted the bat. "I meant--will Lothaire live?" "He will." | paranormal-romance | Kresley Cole | |
| c512e10 | In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't know the meaning of virtue!" "Of course I do-it means your thong must be white." (Sabine)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 1e11278 | You two. You can do a cleaning spell." One slurred, "But Nixie, I'm really pre-hung-over." Nix's eyes went wide. "Do it, or the photos go live!" The witch shook her fist to the sky, crying, "Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!" | Kresley Cole | ||
| f594a54 | I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite? | Stephen King | ||
| 076d612 | Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one. | murder | Stephen King | |
| f9e45c5 | It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out .. | futility maternal mother nihilism winter | Betty Smith | |
| f7487f6 | A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb. The nurse had chosen the forgetting way. Yet, as she stood there, she knew that years later she would be haunted by the sorrow in the face of tha.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 70a0a22 | Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. | escape inspirational life mind | Virginia Woolf | |
| b9e7493 | When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6a28517 | When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep. | experience life love maturity | John Gardner | |
| cdc9be1 | Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 40397fd | Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 59732d1 | Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne. | misunderstanding | L.M. Montgomery | |
| ac27653 | It still took years for me to let go of learned pattern's of behavior that negated my capacity to give and receive love. One pattern that made the practice of love especially difficult was my constantly choosing to be with men who were emotionally wounded, who were not that interested in loving, even though they desired to be loved. I wanted to know love but was afraid to be intimate. By choosing men who were not interested in being loving,.. | bell hooks | ||
| 18aed3a | Shall I project a world? | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 5bd762c | Do you--do you think I want to--do you think I give a--I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6f0091a | Because, sometimes you've to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've to think about the greater good! This is war! | harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2752ea0 | Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green) | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b277bb1 | My first thoughts after waking are - and always have been - of you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3529e59 | I hear they feed you in Sing Sing," Evie muttered. "Three squares a day." "Evangeline," Will said with a sigh. "Charity begins at home." "So does mental illness." | Libba Bray | ||
| 4cd0865 | I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books. | Libba Bray | ||
| 100bdaf | You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a372e1f | The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2f41b95 | The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 572d9f5 | No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds | transience | Hermann Hesse | |
| ff5df84 | Windows were shuttered as they passed, probably because of Rowan, who looked like nothing short of death incarnate. But he was surprisingly calm with the villagers they approached. He didn't raise his voice, didn't snarl, didn't threaten. He didn't smile, but for Rowan, he was downright cheerful. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b715570 | I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin." He shook the hair out of his face. "I'm not interested in court ladies," he said thickly, and kissed her." | celaena-sardothien crown-of-midnight dorian dorian-havilliard sarah-j-maas throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 5546ac3 | How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don't know how to use it?' Not me, sir. Other people. They see the sword and don't attack me,' said Maladict patiently. Yes, but if they did, lad, you wouldn't be any good with it,' said the sergeant. No, sir. I'd probably settle for just ripping their heads off, sir. That's what I mean by protection, sir. Theirs, not mine. And I'd get hell from the League if I did that, sir. | self-defense | Terry Pratchett | |
| 31a4123 | The turtle moves. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3268032 | A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken a ? You think that's worse than murder?" The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like "What's so bad about genocide?" | librarians libraries | Terry Pratchett | |
| ba55062 | I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome. | shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 8bb3769 | Silence, and then Eve said, "Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind." | morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 7769947 | Me neither," Shane put in. "Homie don't play that." "I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all," Amelie said." | funny language morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 235aca7 | I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. | Cornelia Funke |