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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
Madeline Miller,
[ "quotes" ]
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cell...
Anais Nin
[ "growth", "life", "maturity" ]
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us dis...
Patrick Rothfuss,
[ "fantasy", "psychology" ]
“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
Jane Austen
[ "relaxation" ]
“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
Douglas Adams,
[ "british", "humor", "science-fiction", "social-commentary", "thumb", "towel" ]
“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
Golda Meir
[ "funny", "golda", "meir", "true" ]
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
Irina Dunn
[ "feminism", "humour", "misattributed-gloria-steinem" ]
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
Joshua Slocum,
[ "alone", "books", "friends", "solitude" ]
“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
Patricia Highsmith
[ "conversations", "distractions", "imagination", "quiet", "solitude" ]
“Winter is coming.”
George R.R. Martin,
[ "forcasting", "mottos", "winter" ]
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracl...
C. JoyBell C.
[ "belief", "direction", "faith", "flight", "flying", "flying-spirit", "hope", "inspirational", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-quotes", "life", "life-and-living", "living", "trust", "uplifting", "winds", "winds-of-life", "wings" ]
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
Ray Bradbury,
[ "fahrenheit-451" ]
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
Charles Dickens,
[ "books", "writing" ]
“A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.”
William Blake,
[ "lies", "logic", "philosophy", "religion", "truth" ]
“What are all these?" Clary asked."Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, "electrum wire - not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares - silver bullets, charms of protetion, crucifixes, stars of David-""Jesus," said Clary"...
Cassandra Clare,
[ "clary-fray", "humor", "irony", "jace-wayland", "jesus" ]
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean i...
J. D. Salinger,
[ "holden", "holden-caulfield", "hope", "run", "save" ]
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall
[ "inspiration" ]
“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”
Karen Marie Moning,
[ "kiss", "love" ]
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
Dr. Seuss
[ "humor", "rythmic", "thoughtful" ]
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
David Levithan,
[ "homicide", "suicide" ]
“Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
Walt Whitman,
[ "change" ]
“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”
Dr. Seuss
[ "dr-seuss" ]
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Oscar Wilde,
[ "temptation" ]
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a...
John Green,
[ "life-pattern" ]
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or u...
Walt Whitman
[ "activism", "service" ]
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
Mark Twain
[ "misattributed-mark-twain", "newspapers" ]
“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”
Suzanne Collins,
[ "humor" ]
“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”
Jay Asher,
[ "care", "impact", "life", "reach-out", "think" ]
“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
George Carlin
[ "benediction", "evil", "goodwill", "humor", "inspirational", "wishes" ]
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
A.A. Milne
[ "goodbyes", "love" ]
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
Bette Midler
[ "friendship", "happiness", "humor", "inspirational", "jealousy", "success" ]
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
Franz Kafka
[ "beauty", "wonder", "young-at-heart", "youth", "youthfulness" ]
“You possess other people's...bodies."He accepted that statement with a nod."Do you want to possess my body?""I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.”
Becca Fitzpatrick,
[ "humor", "nora", "patch" ]
“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
[ "books", "poetry" ]
“A good book is an event in my life.”
Stendhal,
[ "books", "literature", "reading" ]
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
Jodi Picoult
[ "heartbreak", "life" ]
“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
Charles Bukowski,
[ "loneliness", "solitude" ]
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and ...
Neil Gaiman,
[ "inspirational", "poetry" ]
“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong."He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitti...
Veronica Roth,
[ "chivalry" ]
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
Kurt Vonnegut,
[ "life", "love" ]
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
Lewis Carroll,
[ "alice-in-wonderland", "mad-hatter", "nonsense" ]
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
William Blake
[ "betrayal", "disappointment" ]
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
Socrates
[ "knowledge", "philosophy" ]
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
Haruki Murakami,
[ "fiction", "happiness", "stories" ]
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
Nick Hornby,
[ "music", "sad" ]
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
Sun Tzu,
[ "deception", "life", "war" ]
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
John Lennon
[ "beatles", "connection", "dreamers", "dreaming", "dreams" ]
“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
J. K. Rowling,
[ "awesome", "friendship", "inspirational" ]
“So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that.""Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.""I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.”
Cassandra Clare
[ "humor" ]
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
Isabel Allende
[ "books" ]
“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome."Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"I took a...
Sarah Dessen,
[ "romance" ]
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
Sharon Salzberg
[ "inspiration", "life", "love", "self-acceptance", "self-esteem", "wisdom" ]
“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's jus...
Rick Riordan,
[ "books", "humor", "olympians" ]
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea.”
e.e. cummings,
[ "water" ]
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
Neil Gaiman
[ "humor", "men", "witchcraft", "witches", "women" ]
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
Albert Einstein
[ "dangerous", "evil", "people", "world" ]
“Love is the absence of judgment.”
Dalai Lama XIV
[ "inspiration" ]
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
C.S. Lewis
[ "god", "pain" ]
“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
John Lennon
[ "beatles", "emotions", "hypocrisy", "pain", "suffering" ]
“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
[ "love", "romance", "romantic", "sentimentality" ]
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”
Gandhi
[ "actions", "habits", "values" ]
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
Terry Pratchett
[ "humor", "life" ]
“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
Shmuley Boteach
[ "relationships" ]
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
Paulo Coelho,
[ "inspirational" ]
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Paulo Coelho
[ "life" ]
“Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.”
Becca Fitzpatrick,
[ "becca-fitzpatrick", "hush-hush", "nora", "patch" ]
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
Sylvia Plath,
[ "writing" ]
“Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”
Veronica Roth,
[ "love" ]
“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”
Veronica Roth,
[ "four", "heartbreaking", "tobias" ]
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
J.K. Rowling ,
[ "age", "family" ]
“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she to...
Markus Zusak,
[ "love", "the-book-thief" ]
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things tha...
Eric Roth,
[ "benjamin-button", "change", "courage", "time" ]
“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck
[ "friendship" ]
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
Guy de Maupassant
[ "memory" ]
“I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”
Jeaniene Frost,
[ "humor", "love" ]
“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
Mark Twain
[ "morals" ]
“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
Laurie Halse Anderson,
[ "defend" ]
“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake. Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud br...
George R.R. Martin
[ "fantasy-books" ]
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
Lewis Carroll ,
[ "alice-in-wonderland", "introspection", "self-discovery" ]
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
[ "change", "mind", "nietzsche" ]
“Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?""I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "humor" ]
“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
Terry Pratchett,
[ "cats", "death", "life" ]
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams,
[ "atheism", "religion", "skeptic" ]
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
[ "inspirational", "missed-chances" ]
“But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
Anne Bronte
[ "beauty", "defenses", "roses", "thorns" ]
“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "humor" ]
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Thomas Merton ,
[ "art" ]
“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”
Sarah Dessen,
[ "inspirational" ]
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde,
[ "love" ]
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy,
[ "love", "respect" ]
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
Maxine Hong Kingston
[ "creation", "destruction", "hope", "life" ]
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
Mother Teresa
[ "paraphrased" ]
“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
Alan Moore,
[ "democracy", "equality", "government", "misattributed" ]
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Oscar Wilde,
[ "bad", "charming", "good", "tedious" ]
“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”
Sarah Dessen,
[ "life" ]
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
[ "spirituality" ]
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin,
[ "freedom", "liberty", "privacy", "safety", "security" ]
“Name one hero who was happy."I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back."You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward."I can't.""I ...
Madeline Miller,
[ "fame", "happiness", "heroes", "love", "mythology", "oaths" ]
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
Terry Pratchett,
[ "humor", "metaphysics", "physics", "science" ]
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
Kurt Vonnegut,
[ "slaughterhouse-five" ]