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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bce036e | Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation | inspirational | Nelson Mandela | |
| ac533a5 | So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. | inspirational neil-gaiman mistakes | Neil Gaiman | |
| a664f49 | Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. | inspirational | Ray Bradbury | |
| ddd5cce | Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!! | action confidence inspiration motivational inspirational enthusiasm belief discipline | Pablo | |
| 8650f8c | Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6d457b2 | A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8a3508c | You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 471c502 | A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, nat.. | punctuation | Lynne Truss | |
| 6d3de7c | She's Awakening,' Aiden said, voice tight. 'But the blood...' I heard Marcus move closer. 'Why is she bleeding?' I eased onto my side. 'I'm being tattooed by a giant, mother fu-' Another strangled scream cut of my words as a different type of pain settled in, moving under my skin. It was like lighting racing through my veins, frying every nerve ending. 'This is... wow,' Deacon said, and I pried my eyes open. There was a whole audience by th.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5d55130 | All the pent up, helpless rage formed a wrecking ball inside of me. Maintaining human form was near impossible. I wanted to hit something--destroy something. I needed to. "Daemon, no one--" "Shut up," I said, turning to where Matthew sat in the corner of the room. Right this moment I wanted to destroy him. "Just shut the hell up." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2c109bc | Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 7837919 | No!" Leo yelled. "Uhhh," Nico groaned from the floor. "Piper!" Jason cried. "Monkey!" Frank yelled. | piper-mcclean the-argo-ii riordan the-house-of-hades frank-zhang jason-grace rick-riordan hazel-levesque leo-valdez monkeys | Rick Riordan | |
| f3deed9 | Percy: "You asked Poseidon for... me?" Tyson: "For a friend, young cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learns to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive." Percy: "But that's so cruel!" Tyson: "Makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. But I got scared. Monsters chased me so much, clawed me sometimes--" Percy: "The scars on your back?" Tyson: "Sphinx on Seventy-second Street. Big Bully. I pray.. | poseidon tyson percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| eb0886e | So, great. This is Camp...what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?" Aphros frowned. "I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________." He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 05b1f3b | The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. | Henry Miller | ||
| 3255790 | Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can't wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked. | Henry Miller | ||
| a169b38 | To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 9a0ba1f | Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 28653af | Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 8f82d9e | He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last wea.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| f0ff359 | Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 8bccaa1 | The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 97e29a6 | While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appear.. | moon | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| d4006cc | Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9c3711f | Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 58de2a0 | So what can I do now?" she spoke up a minute later. "Nothing," I said. "Just think about what comes before words. You owe that to the dead. As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself. Is that too much to ask?" "A little," she said, trying to smile. "Well, of course it is," I said, trying to smile too. "I doubt that this makes se.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cf44135 | You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c970536 | When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. | James Joyce | ||
| 33742b4 | As if the night had said to me, 'You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms' One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace. | Anne Rice | ||
| 0eab56d | It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 3ebf81d | The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6ced42c | You know, I couldn't imagine living somewhere without seasons." Yeah?" Real seasons, I mean. I'd miss the changes, the variety. Especially spring. I couldn't live without spring. Days like today are worth every snowstorm and slush puddle. By March, it seems like winter will never end. All that snow and ice that seemed so wonderful in December is driving you crazy. But you know spring's coming. Every year, you wait for that first warm day, t.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 38251b7 | People don't love each other at our age, Marthe--they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is. | old-age | Albert Camus | |
| b2f1153 | Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f340208 | I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics. | narcotics | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 4b49df7 | It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 7c521a9 | If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all the great religions of the world?" Birbal was a devout Brahmin from Trivikrampur, but he answered unhesitatingly, "I would say to them that in my opinion they were all atheists as well; I merely believe in one god less than each of them." "How so?" the Emperor asked. "All true believers have good reasons for disbeliev.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 0d03bb4 | Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| ffea1a5 | There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud, leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries | William Shakespeare | ||
| 99201d5 | Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must .. | depression sorrow heartbreak psychotherapy psychiatry mental-health | William Shakespeare | |
| a55b27f | I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah. | James Patterson | ||
| a3a19f6 | The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. | solitude old-age | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| f9cb8e3 | Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals - although a case could be made for the dolphins - because they seldom grow up. Behavioral traits such as curiosity about the world, flexibility of response, and playfulness are common to practically all young mammals but are usually rapidly lost with the onset of maturity in all but humans.. | rebellion | Tom Robbins | |
| 5767792 | Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill? | William Golding |