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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aeb3f95 | What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| fd06ae1 | I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? | people life love | Roald Dahl | |
| 4d48ad3 | It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 8e3e801 | Books do furnish a room. | furnishing furniture | Anthony Powell | |
| 86a5a67 | Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it." -- | James Baldwin | ||
| 669d3c4 | Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. | Cornel West | ||
| cdd3cf2 | We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ca524cf | I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 07c0eea | Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a219187 | Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel. | miracles superstition witchcraft | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| c1f2f3b | He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality | Victor Hugo | ||
| 9b62e1c | I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night--in the moments before I pass off into sleep--ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the.. | learning meaning life truth | Daniel Keyes | |
| 0a59de3 | Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. | silence | Charlotte Brontë | |
| e1d6a9d | I will love you with too many commas, but never any asterisks. | poetry | Sarah Kay | |
| 23a45cc | If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life. | Markus Zusak | ||
| c5259fd | I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything. | Markus Zusak | ||
| bc1352e | Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 3fa697c | You are what you think. All that you are arises from your thoughts. With your thoughts you make your world. | Anonymous | ||
| 4f8cade | You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. | work reward | Anonymous | |
| b496bf2 | Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. | jesus faith religion god religious christ | Anonymous | |
| 1456bc8 | I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom. | Banksy | ||
| 60fddec | When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet. | Robert Greene | ||
| 2319ee2 | This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| fd3dd8b | I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son. | shaun zombies | Mira Grant | |
| 6fb0245 | Cliches, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence. | thinking | Hannah Arendt | |
| 68626d6 | The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 6d15777 | People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can't. | David Mitchell | ||
| be51852 | Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago... | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 3fc52d3 | Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed | Jay McInerney | ||
| 67f3580 | The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 1fb3c02 | A Second Childhood." When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not be too old To stare at everything; As I stared once at a nursery door Or a tall tree and a swing. Wherein God's ponderous mercy hangs On all my sins and me, Because He does not take away The terror from the tree And stones still shine along the road That are and cannot be. Men grow too old for love, my love, Men grow too old for wine, But I.. | joy wonder death life love old | G.K. Chesterton | |
| efffc53 | And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it." | paraphrased | Ilona Andrews | |
| 20fe8d9 | I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea." | magic-slays kate threats | Ilona Andrews | |
| 6d331f5 | Oh. "So the best way to fight you is to strip naked and attack?" His eyes flashed with a wicked light. "Yes. You should try it and see what happens." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 875a450 | Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. "You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off." Did he expect anything different? "Hey, I didn't kick or punch you in the throat. I consider this progress. And you haven't choked me again, which is some sort of record for you..." | mouthing-off magic-bleeds ilona-andrews kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7b146cc | There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 662e6b5 | They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark")." | love | Miranda July | |
| 7b60f99 | Hey, if you don't want to tell me, don't. But I can tell when you lie." Ok, that was creepy. "You can?" He smiled grimly down at the dirty dishwater. "Nope. But see? You fell for it anyway. Careful, or I'll read your mind with my incredible vampire superpowers." | michael-glass | Rachel Caine | |
| 36d5cba | Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It's the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 4ba0f69 | I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness. | writers | William Saroyan | |
| 6ea65b3 | All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good. | humor | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 501a874 | He squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me. I realized that I hadn't kissed him hello, I always kissed him hello. Of course, I was still covered in blood and other bodily fluids, and none of them were his, but he might not understand that that was why I hadn't wanted to get too close. Some of my confusion must have shown on my face, because his smile widened. He turned me around by the shoulders, gave me a little push towards the bathroom, an.. | gregory micah vampires | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 62d2690 | When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f66ccf9 | Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are. | Richard Bach |