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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8aaf254 | The best form of saying is being | inspirational leadership | Che Guevarra | |
| 9c7a0cb | Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it. | humiliation inspirational | Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S | |
| e803ff2 | We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn't have any fresh air. There's no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our.. | buddhism inspirational spirituality | Pema Chödrön | |
| 5fa9150 | We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself. | inspirational | Sarah McLachlan | |
| baa604a | Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. B.. | biology choice compassion determinism empathy free-will inspirational morality reductionism science wisdom | Clarence Darrow | |
| f08462b | I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. | god inspirational last-words religion | Plotinus | |
| 336ffed | My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way | death faith friend funny god humor inspirational life love relationship religion truth | Ali Shariati | |
| 229f4cc | You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you | failure inspirational life mistakes motivation motivational success | Maxwell Maltz | |
| 84c95e0 | You are master of what you say until you utter it, once you deliver it, you are its captive. Preserve your tongue as you do your gold and money. One word could bring disgrace and the termination of a bliss. | inspirational think-before-you-speak | Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S | |
| 9d9f74b | You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? | humans humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| a77a0e1 | William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| adbeb0e | IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 15d5a74 | It is not pleasant to experience decay, to find yourself exposed to the ravages of an almost daily rain, and to know that you are turning into something feeble, that more and more of you will blow off with the first strong wind, making you less and less. Some people accumulate more emotional rust than others. Depression starts out insipid, fogs the days into a dull color, weakens ordinary actions until their clear shapes are obscured by the.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 6377f05 | He darted a look at the uncovered basket behind me, saw what I was eating, and glared at me. "That's appalling," he said. "They're wonderful!" I said. "They're all coming ripe." "All the better to turn you into a ," he said. "I don't want to be a tree yet," I said." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 254b3f2 | For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 84ed588 | Ara?" She jerked her face up. "Huh? Where were we?" But his expression had grown serious, the lesson forgotten. He interlaced his fingers and said, "We are bound." "Bound?" He collected a piece of rope, knotting it. "Oh, you mean bound?" He gave a nod, then drew in the sand. An infinity symbol? "Clever demon, how did you know that...?" He was gazing at her with a question in his eyes. "Bound forever?" And somehow she met his gaze and lied, .. | lesson malkom | Kresley Cole | |
| ede1632 | You gave her your heart, and she gave you the bird." Nix sighed. "Songs will be written about this." | Kresley Cole | ||
| e0966cc | For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing. | reading writing | Virginia Woolf | |
| e9ec1ea | It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3f3d576 | Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world. | literature reading words | Virginia Woolf | |
| b60a52a | You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 2badc01 | He has ' | food love | Poppy Z. Brite | |
| 5f306a4 | The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 9e6964b | A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her. | John Berger | ||
| 76fcd1c | Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 13ac955 | As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1f5fbe2 | You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him. | cowardice | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 1cb4952 | Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 02552ce | One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley. | weasley-twins | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2e461b7 | The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age. | Plato | ||
| 5eaeb11 | All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both." | love relationships | J.K. Rowling | |
| a557c10 | That's right," said Luna encouragingly, as if they were back in the Room of Requirement and this was simply spell practice for the D.A. "That's right, Harry... come on, think of something happy..." "Something happy?" he said, his voice cracked. "We're all still here," she whispered, "We're still fighting. Come on, now..." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3d3e606 | Hermione, will you please --" "Don't you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!" she screeched. "Don't you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!" She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c2f5c7a | Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| bbbb6fa | Oh, for heaven's sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!" A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry's side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley. "Oh honestly," said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. "Well, on your own head be it!" The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn't help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for.. | molly-weasley playful sirius-black | J.K. Rowling | |
| a7f0f11 | He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives. | grief life | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 2252742 | There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 66388ca | Ranger is an unusual name," she managed. "Is it a nickname?" It's a street name," Ranger said. "I was a Ranger in the army." I heard about them Rangers on TV," Grandma said. "I heard they get dogs pregnant." My father's mouth dropped open and a piece of ham fell out. My mother froze, her fork poised in midair. That's sort of a joke," I told Grandma. "Rangers don't get dogs pregnant in real life." I looked at Ranger for corroboration and got.. | humor ranger sobriquet | Janet Evanovich | |
| d7a5490 | Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book." "If you know how it ends, why read the book?" "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story"." | pg-114 | Jayne Ann Krentz | |
| da9c0c7 | Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 26a7f62 | Art never comes from happiness. | creation | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| bf2692e | If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 788e604 | Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care. | christian-living christianity jesus jesus-christ | Max Lucado | |
| 166f774 | But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building. | Paulo Coelho |