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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2ec6a97 | A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. | temptation | C.S. Lewis | |
| a390e37 | Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love. | Jane Green | ||
| fd31321 | O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come. | Richard Llewellyn | ||
| 1ce9ec8 | I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us." | humor maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 47e456a | There is no greater sorrow | italian-medieval-poetry nostalgia À-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu | Dante Alighieri | |
| 0d457f0 | But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. | kind kindness powerful sword inspirational | Rick Riordan | |
| b9b8f25 | A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question." | human stars | Neil Gaiman | |
| a10c7dc | I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much. | John Green | ||
| b6eff2e | She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts. | humor | Rick Riordan | |
| b9a43fe | If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly. | accountability friends inspirational life motivational purpose responsibility success | Steve Maraboli | |
| bcce983 | Do anything, but let it produce joy. | enjoy-life live-life | Walt Whitman | |
| 52196ee | I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. | epigram humor | Oscar Wilde | |
| 58f4334 | I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. | intelligence mistakes self-recognition | J.K. Rowling | |
| a9c71ea | Be melting snow | inspirational | Rumi | |
| ef792ae | A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. | Milan Kundera | ||
| f00af8a | We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet, probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people i.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 37a70fb | I guess there are never enough books. | reading sufficiency | John Steinbeck | |
| 28ef6fa | One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. | philosophy | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 262e7ef | You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived." | magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 069fabf | Every flight begins with a fall. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f22b405 | So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains. | humor malfoy ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| ce36b11 | Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you'll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward. | happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living mistake optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking | Roy T. Bennett | |
| f2cdcc5 | No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. | sorrow | Haruki Murakami | |
| 829e838 | I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame. | obsession | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 8325dbd | I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again. | sadness | C.S. Lewis | |
| c81cb3e | Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. | gifts mediocrity recognition sherlock-holmes talent | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| a6c0919 | It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| f0fcc0d | He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. | philosophy | Milan Kundera | |
| 3493d0c | Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6f571b8 | Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 4477c70 | With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams | happiness inspirational philosophical | Max Ehrmann | |
| 5371ce4 | I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?" "Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything." "Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb." "Was it hard?" Annabeth asked." | dumb humor insult percy-jackson rachel-dare | Rick Riordan | |
| ea3314d | Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| f82f9c7 | Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cea4249 | HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death) | boredom cynism ennui humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 92c6b53 | Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. | freedom-of-choice government inspirational political-philosophy politics | Ronald Reagan | |
| ddc5ecc | Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape | playlist | Stephen Chbosky | |
| ee450da | Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't. | Veronica Roth | ||
| bfef339 | The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d9b8e98 | The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't. | ocean | Christopher Paolini | |
| 65ad7cc | It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. | Yann Martel | ||
| 8457091 | She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| ad419cf | Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more. | home | Robin Hobb | |
| 998f9ff | Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too. | Stephen King |