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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a72ed6 | We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding. | christian christian-behavior inspirational religion religious | Billy Graham | |
| 9415cca | If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts! | art inspirational robots | Cath Crowley | |
| d720ec2 | Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. | inspirational | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| 93e4672 | Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. | inspirational | Rachel Naomi Remen | |
| e8835cd | When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable. | inspirational | Dean Koontz | |
| 2fe3178 | Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested. | inspirational | Paulo Coelho | |
| 2e14838 | you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness! | inspirational | John Bytheway | |
| a899948 | The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life. | humor inspirational satire | Martin Amis | |
| 5d9ff9b | To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there. | inspirational | Kofi Annan | |
| 89b71b8 | Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel! | ridcully students | Terry Pratchett | |
| 307fb4f | And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. | ideology people political-revolutionary revolution revolutionary-movement | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1d4b91b | People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4ecdf74 | If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong. | direction knowledge self-assurance | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0c1fe0b | And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone. | memory wisdom wonder | Terry Pratchett | |
| 19200fd | Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it. | religion | Frank Warren | |
| 721adf9 | How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human, | Frank Warren | ||
| ef34bb3 | Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one... | Richard Matheson | ||
| 0d00c29 | After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 8fc1cbd | Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 035ab57 | For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough. | Mary Karr | ||
| 5569029 | She'd never seen a monster like that before, had never heard of one in all the Lore. When she grappled with the question of what it was, her sharply honed scientifical mind deduced one answer: manbearpig. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 2ddbe6a | Inside the half-basement, they found Wroth alongside Garreth, grappling to hold up the ceiling. The vampire's voice was incongruously calm when he asked, "What kind of idiot would find this a worthy plan?" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0b2e4f2 | There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate--the genetic and neural fate--of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and be.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c31c407 | I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| a5aa286 | All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends. | god love | Neale Donald Walsch | |
| 85ba440 | No emotion is the final one. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f989d42 | It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. | phantom-menace pursuit science-fiction star-wars | Terry Brooks | |
| 38362c8 | you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty. | war | Tim O'Brien | |
| 6e18696 | But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million s.. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| c697ea9 | Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 8bd4981 | Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said. "Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison." | zombie-spice-girls | Maureen Johnson | |
| db4a567 | I'm just tired of everything...even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes...echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| f0d0387 | To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 21f64de | That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way." | teaching | Plato | |
| 3688218 | It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing. | Yann Martel | ||
| b763ef6 | I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| d710496 | It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. | J K Rowling | ||
| 3ac8027 | Look . . . at . . . me. . . . | severus-snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 31c4f9b | Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 6b990d6 | Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy. | marriage nicholas-sparks novels romance wedding | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 991277b | Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said. | romance | Janet Evanovich | |
| ebbfc60 | He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself | inspirational loved-this-part-in-the-story the-giver | Lois Lowry | |
| 308d51c | But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, | immigrants white-teeth zadie-smith | Zadie Smith | |
| 60f4dd4 | I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write? | Ann Patchett |