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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8537dbc | You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life | perfection reality | Woody Allen | |
| 7f3b0e6 | Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong. I should never have let your lips leave mine all those years ago in Boston. I should never have pulled away. I should never have panicked. I should never have wasted all those years without you. Give me a.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ee034a4 | At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can do: 1) break down, lose hope, and refuse to go on while lying facedown on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2) laugh. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 32b684c | sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin. | lessons life | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 3774e11 | I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. I want us to be best friends forever, | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 0271203 | A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 50b23b9 | The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there's no right way and wrong way to do it. We're all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he's right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1187ce5 | You know how I see it? There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing--light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light...I guess from my point of view, we can choose to be in the dark, or we can light a candle. And for me, Christ is that candle. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d740a1d | There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 398924e | As though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 544889f | I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| de987d6 | Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. | James Joyce | ||
| 23f4a66 | Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| d73c189 | Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are. Choosing authenticity means cultivating the courage to be imperfect, to set boundaries, and to allow ourselves to be vulnerable; exercising the compassion that comes from knowing that we are all made of strength and struggle; and nurturing the connection and sense of belonging that can only happen when we believe that we are enoug.. | Brené Brown | ||
| aa66237 | Only when we're brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. | Brené Brown | ||
| 43d72c4 | Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| f0fd6c3 | To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime." | David Guterson | ||
| 9ef1011 | This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 65447a4 | even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 3d13f8e | When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 2650662 | Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time. | inspirational memory rest sanity sleep time | Roger Zelazny | |
| 595236f | Nawat grinned. "I was helping to steal soldiers who couldn't keep up." "What do you do with them?" she asked, curious. "I haven't heard of bodies being found." "Nor will you," Nawat informed her, sitting on a corner of the worktable. "They were still alive when we gave them to my warriors at the edge of the jungle." He picked up Aly's hand and laced his fingers with hers. "My warriors will be able to say they last saw the missing soldiers .. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| a359604 | Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically. We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true - that religion has caused innumerate people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 9f9c847 | There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be. | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 7877608 | Anna] In February, I woke up from a nap. A bouquet of flowers gathered from the various bushes and shrubs scattered around the island lay on the blanket beside me, a small length of rope wound around their stems. I found T.J. down at the shore. "Someone's been checking the calendar." He grinned. "I didn't want to miss Valentine's Day." I kissed him. "You're sweet to me." Pulling me closer, he said, "It's not hard, Anna." I stared into T.J.'.. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 9e03f70 | If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. | Graham Greene | ||
| 913fe7e | Well, sir, do you mean to remain there, commending my father's taste in wine, or do you mean to accompany me to Ashtead?" "Set off for Ashtead at this hour, when I have been traveling for two days?" said Sir Horace. "Now, do, my boy, have a little common sense! Why should I?" "I imagine that your parental feeling, sir, must provide you with the answer! If it does not, so be it! I am leaving immediately!" "What do you mean to do when you rea.. | daughter father parental-love | Georgette Heyer | |
| 9da64b5 | With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that -- I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James -- But we've not got.. | cats names | T.S. Eliot | |
| 613047c | It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance. | wisdom | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 73965cb | I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I." | Josh Lanyon | ||
| da7aac1 | If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. --ALBERT EINSTEIN | Michio Kaku | ||
| ec4aff6 | I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 7838981 | It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death -rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a n.. | religion | Richard Dawkins | |
| 33f0b46 | Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanying utterances, though, were varied. I heard everything from "Please no" (Maggie), to "Jesus Christ" (Wallace), to "Stop it or die" (I'm assuming it's obvious)." | auden camera eli photo | Sarah Dessen | |
| 6ab5e74 | We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 3c169fd | Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e061160 | An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. | artists | Oscar Wilde | |
| bc0776d | His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. | curiosity desire life love passion psychology | Oscar Wilde | |
| 1230820 | Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 4782e1e | From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power. | brain connection kindred-spirits personality power soul | Oscar Wilde | |
| c0c3d49 | It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. I discern great sanity in the Greek attitude. They never chattered about sunsets, or discussed whether the shadows on the grass were really mauve or not. But they saw that the sea was for the swimmer, and the sand for the feet of the runner. They loved the trees for the shadow that they cast, and the forest for its silence at noon. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| bad2e52 | I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8607cae | I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 3432626 | Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify. | Robert Fulghum |