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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cfe17f4 | We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. | self-awareness | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 68e3458 | Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 222f573 | I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. | self-pity | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 70a939f | Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| a44433a | Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")" | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 09c8828 | I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. | individuality success inspirational | Oprah Winfrey | |
| 0a5f741 | She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express." | Milan Kundera | ||
| 4514356 | Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different.. | silence quiet | Norton Juster | |
| 9eba517 | The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead. | Anne Rice | ||
| 615d70a | What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you." | Nicole Krauss | ||
| bb4fcbe | It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| bfbd710 | You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a94abfe | No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't. | survival | Stephen King | |
| 6b654ee | The person you became with her is worth being. | life christina four tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| 68bb987 | Dare to love yoursel | angel-poems classic-books inspiring-authors inspiring-words poetry joy inspirational-quotes spirituality love inspirational famous-quotes poem-in-your-pocket-day positive-motivation classic-quotes national-poetry-month haikus rainbows rainbow self-motivation personal-growth gold self-love grace creative-vision psychotherapy haiku self-respect self-esteem | Author-Poet Aberjhani | |
| 4acff16 | You collect scars because you want proof that you are paying for whatever sins you've committed. And I know this because I've been doing the same damn thing for two hundred years. Tell me, do you think you will go to some blessed Afterworld, or do you expect a burning hell? You're hoping for hell--because how could you face them in the Afterworld? Better to suffer, to be damned for eternity and-- | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b423b1e | I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples. | love claudia emily-giffin | Emily Giffin | |
| 609c1fa | In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream? | Lewis Carroll | ||
| d4b70df | The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. | dogs man heaven religion inspirational animals | Mark Twain | |
| b8ae8bd | She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did. | moving-on loss stepping moving | Markus Zusak | |
| 5be7a74 | The basis of optimism is sheer terror. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 0b4a52c | Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art Not many have style Not many can keep style I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have.. | life style | Charles Bukowski | |
| 5195e4a | I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky! | conceit percy-jackson self-esteem | Rick Riordan | |
| 89a6912 | Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah...it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. | inspirational | Rumi | |
| cd8c3d3 | There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison | love waiting hearts | Jane Austen | |
| a254e61 | I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. | bitterness | Nicole Krauss | |
| 1627369 | Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. | loneliness life sunshine | Charlotte Brontë | |
| c04f749 | I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 565fd9b | Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9e9a10b | Of course." He picked up the brown bag of candy on the table. "What's your . . ." He trailed off as he weighed the bag in his hands. "Didn't I give you three pounds of candy?" She smiled impishly. "You ate half the bag!" "Was I supposed to save it?" "I would have liked some!" "You never told me that." "Because I didn't expect you to consume all of it before breakfast!" She snatched the bag from him and put it on the table. "Well, that just .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 20db9b0 | It would not take a monster to destroy a monster - but light, light to drive out darkness. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 893d987 | All this happened, more or less. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| f64fe02 | There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever." Octavian read the scroll. "This says, 'Go to Alaska. Find Thanatos and free him. Come back by sundown on June twenty-fourth or die'." "Yes," Mars said. "Is that not clear?" "Well, my lord...usually prophecies are unclear. They're wrapped in riddles. They rhyme, and..." Mars casually popped another gr.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| da07357 | Don't let others tell you what you can't do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible. | self-doubt inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational achievement believe-in-yourself believe vision | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 73010e2 | Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. | silence loquacity remaining-silent reticence | William S. Burroughs | |
| 3c8c4f4 | And I realized--I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d5213d3 | If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood. | god life jace-wayland mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9246d9d | You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. | people play paraphrased | Richard Lingard | |
| 0812cc5 | I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. | motherhood kids inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life inspirational parenting-children fatherhood growing-up parenting children childhood parenthood | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 6104f16 | There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no var.. | history history-repeating-itself patterns | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| d77e186 | I am a poet in deeds--not often in words. | words poet | Ian Fleming | |
| 0251458 | This book was written using 100% recycled words. | humor environmentalism | Terry Pratchett | |
| 5aec73f | His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d6ca99c | You know," he said, "this is why I love you so much." Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. "What do you mean?" You don't ask me to go inside because it's cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand." | wrath vampire paranormal-romance | J.R. Ward |