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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d8439c2 | It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them. | words | Terry Pratchett | |
| eb748d7 | The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. | William Saroyan | ||
| 37a538a | The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there. | Nancy Garden | ||
| f475993 | The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. | exploration infinite journey meditation spirituality transcendance | Jules Verne | |
| c933b9e | Every time you look up at the stars, it's like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you're the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and yo.. | comic eleven graphic-novel lost-at-sea sixteen staring-at-stars stars teenager | Bryan Lee O'Malley | |
| 068b8da | One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 58c2114 | Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy." | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 2fad48c | What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Oooh! He summoned you to the west coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you taking care of that little problem? I should give you a bunny!" - Algaliarept" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 70695ff | I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling .. | happiness horror poe poetry | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 1dc7be6 | The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 3c9ea2c | The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. | Ayn Rand | ||
| d9dca06 | Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. | inspirational john-galt | Ayn Rand | |
| b4a079b | It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know. | Ayn Rand | ||
| ec03767 | People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt... They envy achievement, and their dream of g.. | greatness mediocrity | Ayn Rand | |
| 1f930f3 | A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. | Ayn Rand | ||
| e5e9558 | People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose. | Ayn Rand | ||
| ea78b74 | You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more. | Philip Roth | ||
| 1dee544 | If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency). | Rick Warren | ||
| 73e6f76 | I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe. | humorous travel | Jon Ronson | |
| 0eb6eb2 | I could have been a great many things. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 39a614d | The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3279856 | Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 438ed68 | Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self. Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near; and though only the breath of your breath reaches her heart, the shadow of your shadow crosses .. | darkness life light | Kahlil Gibran | |
| df84653 | You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6117894 | I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters." | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| bcc5e1c | Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So... try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 191bca0 | Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| bd56672 | I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't | oral-sex sex | Anne Lamott | |
| 0f70fe6 | in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 23fc9a0 | You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were. | love son | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 2f1ed05 | It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, bu.. | life medicine | Mary Roach | |
| 7de5176 | Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole. | eudora-welty listening storytelling writing | Eudora Welty | |
| 1c6a800 | Josh bear-hugs St Clair. "I'm sorry you're off the market." "Don't tell Anna, but I bought one for you, too," St Clair says." -- | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 2998627 | I just can't fathom why anyone would stand on a ledge when there's a respectable amount of walking space right next to it. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 9eb57e5 | Angel?" Yeah?" she looked up, all blue-eyed innocence. I felt stupid, but... "Can Total, um, talk?" Uh-huh," Angel said casually, squeezing water out of her hair. I stared at her. "He . Total talks, and you didn't tell me?" Well..." Angel looked for him, saw he was pretty far away, and lowered her voice. "Don't tell him I said this, but he's actually not that interesting." | James Patterson | ||
| 6a4204b | Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using. | inigo | William Goldman | |
| b410c40 | There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. | William Goldman | ||
| 7153c20 | if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they'd probably say they didn't. Yet that's not necessarily what they truly think. It's just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don't until they're allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never gets the chance. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 35560fb | And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built | poem | Charles Bukowski | |
| 9cd37d9 | Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are. | inspirational | David Mitchell | |
| 7139d0a | Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 41651f4 | We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that. | moonlight nature winter witches | Philip Pullman | |
| c933452 | The judge's massive eyebrows crept up. "Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today?" "Yes, Your Honor." "Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant." | law | Ilona Andrews | |
| b123905 | Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? | happiness life optimism struggle survival | Tom Stoppard |