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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ef12465 | Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose, but only his own virtue can achieve it...Life is the reward of virtue- and happiness is the goal and the reward of life. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy- a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for .. | objectivism philosophical philosophy | Ayn Rand | |
| 28ef81c | John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains--and he withdrew his fire--until the day when men withdraw their vultures. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0b17b97 | Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge." | ethics moral | Ayn Rand | |
| 733cd7f | It is time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a sea of unremarkable men and women, anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabetized things, a million forgotten hours. | poetry | Billy Collins | |
| 122db7f | For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland. | John Steinbeck | ||
| e3bfd7c | I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling a.. | evil good john-steinbeck story | John Steinbeck | |
| fb670d7 | The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect." | Gary Chapman | ||
| 18ca08a | And when I fall in love," I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes." | clouds dreamers dreaming dreams fall-in-love feet firm grass grounded heads idealists ideals illusions love lover mountain purple realist reality sky worlds | V.C. Andrews | |
| 70ec402 | T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs. | stubbornness values | Jared Diamond | |
| e013291 | I miss everything. I miss talking to her, hearing about her day. I miss her voice all gravelly and smoky, I miss hearing her laugh, I miss getting her letters, writing her letters. I miss her eyes, and the smell of her hair, and the way her breath tasted. I fucking miss everything. I miss knowing she was around, because it helped me to know that she was around, someone like her existed. I guess most of all, I miss knowing I would see her ag.. | James Frey | ||
| 12d34c5 | Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it. | James Frey | ||
| 27bb8cc | Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp." | Steven Pressfield | ||
| c93da76 | When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not bei.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ab1ef4f | And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 9b92b53 | Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. | Charles Dickens | ||
| f6b48d0 | Face your fears or they will climb over your back. | fear | Frank Herbert | |
| 05b5303 | But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5df0ab6 | It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling .. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 7806e14 | There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. | perfection | Michael Cunningham | |
| 1b0440e | We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time. | pretend-happiness suicide the-virgin-suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| bd63598 | If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. | teenager | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 9cfafbc | Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past. | Truman Capote | ||
| b601659 | A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. | Truman Capote | ||
| d0cca0e | Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. | hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy marvin | Douglas Adams | |
| e41e7c5 | It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane. | h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy humor logic wonko-the-sane | Douglas Adams | |
| a6b089e | Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy. Hope your diodes rot. Thank you. Have a nice day. Stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. It is my pleasure to open for you... Zark off. ...and my satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. | humor random | Douglas Adams | |
| a3d4cea | Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8de135b | Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 536d522 | Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me. Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think? Sam: I heard raised voices. Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak. Sam: N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of t.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8d3b6c3 | I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate. . . If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8f526c3 | You're insane!" "I won't argue that point." | insanity | Ray Bradbury | |
| 455c539 | Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| f81ffec | Which is why we say meaning | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 649697a | Do devils love each other? Do they walk arm in arm in hell saying, "Ah, you are my friend, how I love you," things like that to each other?...it was a matter of a concept of evil, wasn't it? All creatures in hell are supposed to hate one another, as all the saved hate the damned, without reservation." | Anne Rice | ||
| 6093ca1 | Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to the ground. I'd probably kill myself diving if I was this bad underwater. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ac98964 | Again, I repeat, don't ask questions you don't want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1cddc38 | Nick: How? Are you a vampire or something? What made you immortal? Acheron: Real good DNA. | humor | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 7582635 | I'm not a child. Don't talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you're worse. You're an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 255090b | Hmmm, I bet you'd be really cute with hornays. Not that you're not cute right now, but you're a bit young. You're only what? Four in human years? Oh wait, that's wrong, isn't it? You ninety? (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 060bd34 | Life experience. I can talk it up, vow to broaden my horizons, but I'm still limited to the experiences with my life. How can a person understand an experience that lies completely outside her own? She can see it, feel it, imagine what it would be like to live it, but it's no different from seeing a movie on a screen and saying, "Thank God that's not me"." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| e3e09e0 | You've never been a teenager, sweetie. You know what's best for you. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 287bacf | It's late,' he said again, murmuring, almost crooning now, his voice smoother than silk. 'Sleep, my Bella. Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep, my only love. | edward love twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 60f5124 | But what if it were you? What if you were stuffed in a human body and let loose on this planet only to find yourself lost among your own kind? What if you were such a good person that you tried to save the life that you'd taken that you almost died trying to get her back to her family? What if you then found yourself surrounded by violent aliens who hated you and tried to hurt you and tried to murder you over and over again? What if you jus.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| e2183ec | Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it. | Stephenie Meyer |