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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 433af1e | One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be. | Marcel Proust | ||
| f287946 | If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 56cba4b | We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went into making it...We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible an depending as much time as possible in deliberation. We really only trust conscious decision making. But there are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first imp.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| bb8f740 | I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die. | death | John Green | |
| f2d5e01 | Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle. | John Green | ||
| b9c73ba | standing in line is a form of oppression | John Green | ||
| 6ef507b | Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else | John Green | ||
| 4e5b07b | Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he told Will. Halt raised an eyebrow. "At least I found a use for that damned helmet," he said, and the smile disappeared from Erak's face. "Yes. I'm not sure what I'm going to tell Gordoff about that," he said. "He made me promise I'd look after that helmet. It's his favorite-a real family heirloom." "Well it certainly has a lived i.. | John Flanagan | ||
| 61ad708 | Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion. | John Piper | ||
| e32a1e9 | Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| da100e6 | I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk. | sugar-daddy | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 32f69a9 | But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling. | feelings tears | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 071d2d9 | Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, "You the ambassador?" "You gave me the gun," protested Sounis. "I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it!" Eugenides told him. "Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray," murmured the magus. "You shut up!" said Gen, laughing." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 916ae3d | There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater. | bravery divergent inspirtational | Veronica Roth | |
| ab9efc7 | Reading can be dangerous. | the-thirteenth-tale | Diane Setterfield | |
| f4005ca | Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories. | stories | Diane Setterfield | |
| c014b85 | You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. | daenerys | George R. R. Martin | |
| 6f9ce3f | If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne." | badass dorne | George R.R. Martin | |
| 81b4489 | You should have Hugo throw you in the pool." The golem turned his head toward Seth, who shrugged. "Sure, that would be fun." Hugo nodded, grabbed Seth, and, with a motion like a hook shot, flung him skyward. Kendra gasped. They were still thirty or forty feet away from the edge of the pool. She had pictured the golem carrying Seth much closer before tossing him. Her brother sailed nearly as high as the roof of the house before plummeting .. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 961c02a | What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 74db446 | They wore their strange beauty like war paint. | beauty cold different strange strength strong unique vampire | Holly Black | |
| ebcc604 | There's always something left to lose. | Holly Black | ||
| 96609ee | But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them? | Holly Black | ||
| c9f39b2 | The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field | inspirational | Wendy Mass | |
| 29ba9a4 | Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. | common-sense inspirational wisdom | William Blake | |
| 0ce0fd0 | Deep down, I don't believe it takes any special talent for a person to lift himself off the ground and hover in the air. We all have it in us--every man, woman, and child--and with enough hard work and concentration, every human being is capable of...the feat....You must learn to stop being yourself. That's where it begins, and everything else follows from that. You must let yourself evaporate. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you fe.. | inspirational | Paul Auster | |
| 06d6709 | There is no illusion greater than fear. | inspirational overcoming-fear | Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching | |
| 9fa5dfa | I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you. | happyquotes hope inspirational inspirationalquotes inspired instadaily instaquote lovequotes pinquotes poems poetry quote quoteoftheday quotes relationships rmdrake sadquotes sayings spokenword tattoo typewriter vsco writer writing | robert m drake | |
| 4295e2e | The reward of a thing well done is having done it. | inspirational | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| c4949d1 | Adversity introduces a man to himself. | inspirational | Albert Einstein | |
| 2c4e333 | I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." | inspirational | Vince Lombardi | |
| f944349 | a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. | inspirational | Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni | |
| bf1d393 | My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be.. | inspirational spiritual | Ezra Taft Benson | |
| e415c12 | No matter how many people believe or don't believe in you, you must b | attitude believe faith inspirational life | pablo | |
| 661e1c8 | In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal. | eternity imagination inspirational reality | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 4bd11c2 | If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible. | rebirth resurrection | Mary Karr | |
| eb49fc7 | If. A two-letter word for futility. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 24bce21 | Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| dad78b1 | Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now." -- | Norton Juster | ||
| c386ef4 | I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name?" | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 18a9d18 | In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal." | imagination inspirational reality | L.M. Montgomery | |
| c2d883b | There's terrible evil in the world." It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals." -- | Richard Adams | ||
| 5f930c4 | Love can sometimes achieve the impossible | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e90a924 | Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith? | trust | Nicholas Sparks |