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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 92b8b3d | Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0488de3 | Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work. | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| bb54663 | the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9b85006 | One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 11d734d | Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you.. | faith happy heal healing inspiration miracles pray prayer sin sing spirituality troubles | Anonymous | |
| 63dbaf1 | Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (Jesus, in Mark 11:24) | religious | Anonymous | |
| bff909e | We are all in search of feeling more connected to reality--to other people, the times we live in, the natural world, our character, and our own uniqueness. Our culture increasingly tends to separate us from these realities in various ways. We indulge in drugs or alcohol, or engage in dangerous sports or risky behavior, just to wake ourselves up from the sleep of our daily existence and feel a heightened sense of connection to reality. In th.. | Robert Greene | ||
| a35b9be | Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9ee8842 | You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own. | college education life | Jeannette Walls | |
| 884bffa | Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| c37233d | and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| c0af6f8 | At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| f3372f6 | October Country . . . that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at nigh.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b773023 | I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. | ender inspiration life-lessons | Orson Scott Card | |
| c7b250c | She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 6733371 | Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 018ce51 | Go ahead," Apollo said to Luke. "Tell them what it is, since it's obviously hugging material." Crimson stained Luke's cheeks. "Legend goes that one of the gates to hell is in Stull Cemetery in Kansas." "Oh, gods," I muttered, remembering where I'd heard this before. "Wasn't that a season finale on Supernatural?" When the boys nodded, my eyes rolled. "Seriously? Are Sam and Dean going to be there?" -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ddc5f15 | If I say thank you, will you go away?" "Yes" "Thank you" I said eagerly. "I lied" "What?" I looked up at him, frowning. "That's messed up" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a0a700c | The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo | hades nico-di-angelo torture | Rick Riordan | |
| 56f809c | Frank couldn't breathe underwater. But where was he? Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the size of a teen-aged boy. | goldfish humour koi percy-jackson | rick riordan the mark of athena | |
| 0098d05 | I gave the dwarves an arrogant look, like, Yeah, that's right. I've got a talking disco sword and you don't. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9b64c72 | He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling through the nose, exhaling with a little puff through the mouth. He was also disappointed when she woke up. | jason-grace piper piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| b3719b1 | Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped." | Rick Riordan | ||
| d34e7a2 | Nosoi?" Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end." "You haven't killed me yet," I noted. "Don't tempt me." | fighting greek-mythology humor percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 19bd5dc | Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. | grammar immortality | Margaret Atwood | |
| b9bb7cd | It is rather exciting to write by moonlight. | write | Dodie Smith | |
| dde930c | The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am. | perfect person real | Christine Feehan | |
| abdb5e3 | The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. | Franz Kafka | ||
| f83cf3b | In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood | Milan Kundera | ||
| 43a3fdb | I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. | fooball humour life | Nick Hornby | |
| 40da839 | But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6c3abcc | Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory. | evaporation memory weather | Haruki Murakami | |
| 98aa789 | I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. | racism | William Faulkner | |
| 8ed60eb | It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any. | conduct-of-life life rules society | Wallace Stegner | |
| b945d4e | At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in. | heaven hope | C.S. Lewis | |
| 22a1070 | Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. | pride | C.S. Lewis | |
| 4cb1279 | We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v) | Elie Wiesel | ||
| aef8958 | his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ce0b745 | The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine's Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine's Day on February's shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 6f409ee | Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. | survival | Dave Pelzer | |
| 5d71f6d | So where do you start when you want to start your life again? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 76a06ff | Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger." | humour life passenger | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| 6c1b531 | Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me." His eyes flickered open and he smiled. "I didn't know you cared," he whispered. "And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day." Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket!" she whispered. "Of course I care." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| be57d35 | ay hych mydnyd khh gr shm gywtyn r bh jlw SHnh awrdhyd w an r b yn shdmny w ftkhr brfrshth w bh asmn rsndhyd | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |