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37355ee Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. writing fantasy inspirational Lloyd Alexander
a3bbbdb Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde
3979703 Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. inspirational Paulo Coelho
8e21565 Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. love Anonymous
dbccbf8 This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. music love William Shakespeare
2f53aac Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons." jace simon Cassandra Clare
4218c99 And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
a8eae35 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. life inspirational Ralph Waldo Emerson
2bcc755 Not my daughter, you bitch! molly-weasley-anger J.K. Rowling
86eee8f I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it be-yourself self-determination inspirational misquote Maya Angelou
a92a29d I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is. John Green
fdaaf7e I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")" self-determination inspirational misquote Maya Angelou
217d0aa There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespear
5692457 All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. first-sentence Leo Tolstoy
eb7a8fb They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other. romance love nicholas-sparks the-notebook Nicholas Sparks
84c82a8 When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through. Nicholas Sparks
51a6838 Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that. Nicholas Sparks
1a9355b You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?" Cassandra Clare
84e3f77 The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. hope love inspirational J.R.R. Tolkien
e8eb28f You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. "But I don't want anything else in the world." love jace-wayland Cassandra Clare
aa1c4ed It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. marriage opening-lines wife Jane Austen
4d90ff6 Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did.. Neil Gaiman
8b4037d So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books. television humor Roald Dahl
974914c If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. inspirational Martin Luther King Jr.
c7f2430 If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, desp.. laughter loss sacrifice isolation flame Charles Bukowski
6215167 It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great ent.. presidential politics inspirational Theodore Roosevelt
349a94e Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. suffering joy chocolate pleasures John Green
78e2eec Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. humor philosophy wisdom inspirational Isaac Asimov
23cf8eb Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him. courage fear George R.R. Martin
f8c803f For you, a thousand times over Khaled Hosseini
9338119 I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. humor life inspirational maya angelou
7c7429a Hell is empty and all the devils are here. inspirational William Shakespeare
42ce5d1 There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. jane-austen Jane Austen
5056619 Turn your wounds into wisdom. pain wisdom inspirational wounds experience Oprah Winfrey
8e527cc Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops" because that was the name of his dog And that's what it was all about And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star And his mother hung it on the kitchen door and read it to his aunts That was the year Father Tracy took all the kids to the zoo And he let them sing on the bus And his little sister was born with tiny toenails and no hair And his mo.. Stephen Chbosky
faa8cd7 The very essence of romance is uncertainty. romance Oscar Wilde
6765257 When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. inspirational Arthur Conan Doyle
a946549 Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. reading Jane Smiley
441a880 I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. John Steinbeck
057cfd3 Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck." will-herondale Cassandra Clare
95f1cb2 If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. love Emily Jane Brontë
fb1d53f If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary. David Sedaris
ccaaf8c They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting. funny John Green
10cae73 That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means." fun humor isabelle-lightwood jace-wayland Cassandra Clare