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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5379bec | And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer. | John Green | ||
| 1ab6aa6 | What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms? | romance | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 9c05449 | Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c9896f8 | Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 336f3d5 | How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? | Charles Bukowski | ||
| a40cf9e | Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear .. | poetry | Mary Oliver | |
| ebf5780 | Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. | leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic inspiring motivational optimism life inspirational leaders | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 60093a9 | Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2cfe921 | Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? | immortality remembrance | Terry Pratchett | |
| 362af8a | Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people .. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3adde58 | Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. | inspirational buddhist | Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni | |
| e1cea08 | It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 36fadd4 | The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. | artists pain happiness evil | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| 6290b53 | I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken." | nehemia throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 0b90144 | Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you're doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted.. | live-in-the-moment today | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 69a3337 | I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body. | pain trust hurt | Veronica Roth | |
| 0ef3796 | Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're t.. | humor comics | Warren Ellis | |
| f924203 | Percy scowled. "I-I know you." Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?" | son-of-neptune percy-jackson nico-di-angelo rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 23d1662 | Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently. | inspirational | Sherry Argov | |
| 36619dc | Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. " When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, 'I'm the most elite warrior!' ' No, I'm the most elite warrior!' And today you're playing Halo and giving each other props for good ideas." -- | city-of-fallen-angels simon-lewis mortal-instruments | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0adb825 | Who is he when he isn't Dauntless, isn't an instructor, isn't Four, isn't anything in particular? Whoever he is, I like him. It's easier to admit that to myself now, in the dark, after all that just happened. He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 7ca6975 | Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. | harry-potter treasure heart inspirational | Anonymous | |
| 3319baa | If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 17e8d0a | I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little. | helpfulness leaving | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 72b5a6c | Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8fa06b9 | I like the scientific spirit--the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine--it always keeps the way beyond open--always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake--after a wrong guess. | doubt science life scientific guess certainty skepticism humble evidence mistake ideas surrender thought | Walt Whitman | |
| c589c61 | What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| ad69233 | To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. | love inspirational devotion | Bill Wilson | |
| 0023f37 | A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f8ed335 | So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. | wrong right-and-wrong right morals | Ernest Hemingway | |
| ce60dc8 | Who knows how to make love stay? 1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay. 2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the .. | love | Tom Robbins | |
| 1968dbe | Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. | Arthur Golden | ||
| a942d20 | More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3d57c81 | Who said anything about shame?" She gestured down to her naked body, even though it was covered by the blanket. "Honestly, I'm surprised you're not strutting about, boasting to everyone. certainly would be if I'd tumbled . "Does your love for yourself know no bounds?" "Absolutely none." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 2230f58 | Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady." | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 4504531 | you can never love someone as much as you miss them. | John Green | ||
| 27ace61 | I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then." | marriage humor | William Goldman | |
| 81b45cc | Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 108712c | Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and gave him a kiss whenever he did something stupid. She must have kissed me a lot, Percy thought. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 4187428 | In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself. | young_adult memoir | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 1a9f60e | Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. | Walt Whitman | ||
| ec04eda | Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. | O. Henry | ||
| 9ba2b36 | Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage suc.. | spirituality religion science science-vs-religion | Carl Sagan | |
| 5f36a75 | There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. | inspirational teachers | Robert Frost |