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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 882fe3f | There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the se.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 36e7757 | In the real world outside of academics, something more than just grades is required. I have heard it called "guts," "chutzpah," "balls," "audacity," "bravado," "cunning," "daring," "tenacity" and "brilliance." This factor, whatever it is labeled, ultimately decides one's future much more than school grades." | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 5c841af | I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 8bbbf3e | And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy? | happy unhealthy eat | Robert Fulghum | |
| 5a6a2a9 | Only a habit can subdue another habit. | Og Mandino | ||
| 0bd1dcb | There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 776ea79 | I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f50784a | To become--in Jung's terms--individuated, to live as a released individual, one has to know how and when to put on and to put off the masks of one's various life roles. 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do,' and when at home, do not keep on the mask of the role you play in the Senate chamber. But this, finally, is not easy, since some of the masks cut deep. They include judgment and moral values. They include one's pride, ambition, and achiev.. | individuation joseph-campbell roles | Joseph Campbell | |
| 63baa1c | We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomonation, we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 690ddc4 | When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| e019780 | Rhage! You have a dragon! A pet dragon! I got to rub his tummy! | J.R. Ward | ||
| a813ae1 | This was hers and hers alone. Forevermore. Or at least so I thought... but shit didn't work out that way, and then you came along... and circle be damned, I don't want to be finished with you." Now it was her turn to feel poleaxed, her body going numb as she struggled to comprehend what he was saying. "Autumn, I'm in love with you--that's why I came here tonight. And we don't have to be together, and you don't have to get over what I said, .. | tohr | J.R. Ward | |
| c1855ae | he knew on some level he changed the course of his life. And you could do that, couldn't you, he thought as he put the RAZR back in his pocket. you could choose some paths and not others. Not always, of course. At times destiny just drove you to a destination and dropped your ass off and that was that. But on occasion you were able to pick the address. And if you had half a brain, no matter how hard it was or how wierd it felt, you went int.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 3c5b46c | You keep showing up here? Being who you are?' There was a pause. 'I'm going to fall in love with you.' -Rehvenge | J.R. Ward | ||
| b23a678 | Sometimes IVs and pills weren't always the best course of treatment for the injured. Sometimes all you needed was the touch of the one you loved and the sound of their voice and the knowledge that you were home, and that was enough to drag you back from the brink. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 5eb55e5 | It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate. If you want to feel ten feet tall and as though you could run a hundred miles without stopping, hate beats pure cocaine any day. Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half-starved nation with hatred and nothing more. Imagine that. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 2d7f51f | There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| bf84dc3 | Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| d4d95d7 | Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of strength; such an expenditure, whether in nature or in man, represents the strongest possible threat. The feelings of admiration and of ecstasy induced by them thus mean that we are concerned to admire them from afar. The sun corresponds to that prudent concern. It is all radiance gigantic.. | permanence stability power | Georges Bataille | |
| 0368247 | I get that nothing lasts. But why do I have to miss everybody so much? | John Green | ||
| 0d3df5b | Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children. | hazel-grace-lancaster tfios the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 8230df2 | You feeling scared?" "Kinda." "Of what?" "It's not like that. The sentence doesn't have, like, an object. I'm just scared." | John Green | ||
| f32cbd5 | And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him the world run out of glasses and he would just have to do without. | fear missing lost-love sudden | John Green | |
| 6abd30e | Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled. | the-fault-in-our-stars ya | John Green | |
| 89c3b13 | You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. | relationships people | John Green | |
| eaf2df6 | Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate." | John Green | ||
| ba87028 | I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... | grenade john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 6f72328 | I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. | tifios hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace | John Green | |
| 5ac3ee2 | The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me. | gus hazel-grace-lancaster john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| c55d0b3 | Sin dolor, no podriamos conocer la alegria | bajo-la-misma-estrella the-fault-in-our-starts john-green tfios | John Green | |
| a80529d | Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it. | journey | Joyce Meyer | |
| 48d4fe7 | You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 13fb2cc | Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape. | writing control | Craig Ferguson | |
| 446b940 | It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| da9b264 | my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. | imagination | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 074860a | They were careless people ... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made . . . . | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| bf4b0dd | I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 9c721fb | Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end? | Judy Blume | ||
| aec67f5 | So you traded up?" I asked, walking toward the car and opening the door. "Do you treat your relationships in the same way?" "Yes," Ethan gravely said. "And I spent four hundred years shopping before I met you." | Chloe Neill | ||
| da82d8b | Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing | education school | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 9473c34 | There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of.. | life village | Juan Rulfo | |
| f9f440f | Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonitio.. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| d13671a | You're lips are bloody.' He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you. | kissing living-dead-in-dallas eric-northman sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| de45908 | If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God. | love | Marianne Williamson |