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“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
Nicholas Sparks
[ "hurt", "sad", "seperate", "soul" ]
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
Amy Bloom
[ "beauty", "body-image", "imperfections", "self-acceptance" ]
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
[ "greatness", "opposition", "spirit" ]
“He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
Stephen Chbosky,
[ "wallflower" ]
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
Sylvia Plath,
[ "depression-silence" ]
“Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored."In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.""You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken."Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.""I didn't invite him into bed," Clary snapped. "We were just kissing.""Just kissing?" Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. "How swiftly you dismiss our love.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "awkward", "humor" ]
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
Richard Dawkins,
[ "atheism", "philosophy" ]
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
haruki murakami
[ "letting-go", "life", "life-lessons", "memories" ]
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
Pearl S. Buck
[ "contentment" ]
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”
William Shakespeare,
[ "human-condition" ]
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
Federico García Lorca,
[ "desire", "punishment", "unrequited-love" ]
“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”
Cassandra Clare
[ "jace", "mortal-instruments" ]
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
[ "jordan-baker" ]
“And so it goes...”
Kurt Vonnegut,
[ "classics" ]
“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
[ "inspirational", "life" ]
“There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. "Is this the moment?" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. "OI! There's a war going on here!" Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. "I know, mate," said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, "so it's now or never, isn't it?" "Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?" Harry shouted. "D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem?" "Yeah --- right --- sorry ---" said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "love", "romance", "war" ]
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde,
[ "cynic" ]
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
Paulo Coelho,
[ "fear", "suffering" ]
“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "goal", "goals", "gratitude", "happiness", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-attitude", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "leader", "leadership", "life", "life-and-living", "life-lessons", "life-quotes", "living", "motivation", "motivational", "optimism", "optimistic", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life", "positive-thinking" ]
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
Vincent Willem van Gogh
[ "art", "dreams", "inspiration", "painting" ]
“Forever is composed of nows.”
Emily Dickinson
[ "carpe-diem", "live-in-the-moment" ]
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
Leonardo da Vinci
[ "flight", "flying", "inspirational" ]
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
[ "education-knowledge" ]
“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
Chuck Palahniuk,
[ "life" ]
“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
Lemony Snicket,
[ "humor-cats-allergies" ]
“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
Rick Riordan,
[ "machines", "people" ]
“The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”
J. K. Rowling,
[ "ginny-weasley", "inspirational" ]
“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "kind", "kindness", "life", "life-quotes", "living-life" ]
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
JK Rowling,
[ "death", "love" ]
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
Dave Eggers
[ "books", "time" ]
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "gratitude", "heart", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-attitude", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "life", "life-and-living", "life-lessons", "life-quotes", "living", "motivation", "motivational", "optimism", "optimistic", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life", "positive-thinking", "thoughts" ]
“Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "believe", "heart", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "life", "life-quotes", "living", "magic", "miracles", "optimism", "optimistic", "passion", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life", "positive-thinking", "purpose" ]
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
Sarah Dessen,
[ "death", "life" ]
“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
Stephen King
[ "harry-potter", "jk-rowling", "stephenie-meyer", "twilight" ]
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
Nora Ephron
[ "reading" ]
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
C.S. Lewis,
[ "god", "religion" ]
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
Charles Dickens
[ "kissing", "love", "romance" ]
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
S.E. Hinton
[ "friends", "friendship" ]
“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
Robert Marley
[ "bob-marley", "compassion", "destiny", "heart", "humanity", "inspirational", "love" ]
“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
Neil Gaiman
[ "writing" ]
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
Jodi Picoult,
[ "death", "heart", "love" ]
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
Fitzgerald F. Scott,
[ "philosophy" ]
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai,
[ "inspirational" ]
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
Rumi
[ "dance", "inspirational" ]
“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley,
[ "inspirational", "love" ]
“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”
Nicholas Sparks,
[ "love" ]
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
E.M. Forster,
[ "love", "poets", "romance" ]
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
[ "god", "grief", "night" ]
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
mahatma gandhi
[ "cleanliness", "consciousness", "corruption", "feet", "individuality", "mind", "purity" ]
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
J.R.R. Tolkien,
[ "humor", "semantics", "suspicion" ]
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,
[ "books", "humor", "reading" ]
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
Kurt Vonnegut,
[ "america", "books", "politics" ]
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
Irving Stone,
[ "books", "friendship" ]
“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
Colleen Hoover,
[ "life" ]
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
Scott Westerfeld,
[ "beauty", "david", "uglies", "westerfeld" ]
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
Lemony Snicket,
[ "comfort", "crying", "tears" ]
“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
Augusten Burroughs
[ "flaws", "individuality" ]
“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "life", "life-and-living", "life-quotes", "living-in-the-present", "living-life", "worry", "worrying" ]
“The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it joins some larger wayWhere many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I cannot say”
J.R.R. Tolkien,
[ "road" ]
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
[ "individuality" ]
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
Philip K. Dick,
[ "belief", "real-life", "reality" ]
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
Nelson Mandela
[ "crime", "freedom", "oppression" ]
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Kurt Vonnegut,
[ "creativity", "invention", "quip", "wings", "writing" ]
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
August Wilson
[ "character", "courage", "self-assessment", "self-esteem", "strength" ]
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
Clive Barker,
[ "art", "inspirational", "love", "redemption", "sadness" ]
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
Ernest Hemingway
[ "drinking" ]
“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
Tina Fey,
[ "bossypants", "humor", "self-love", "tina-fey" ]
“Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "kind", "kindness", "life", "life-quotes", "living", "optimism", "optimistic", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life", "positive-thinking" ]
“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”
Dr. Seuss,
[ "humor", "inspirational", "success" ]
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC”
kurt vonnegut
[ "blues", "god", "life", "music" ]
“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Virginia Woolf
[ "men", "rescuing", "women" ]
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
David Foster Wallace,
[ "books", "infinite-jest" ]
“I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "mortal-instruments", "teen-fantasy" ]
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
[ "renewal", "summer" ]
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka
[ "books" ]
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
Honoré de Balzac
[ "loneliness", "society", "solitude" ]
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
[ "loneliness", "solitude" ]
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller
[ "read", "reader", "reading" ]
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Virginia Woolf,
[ "food", "love" ]
“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
[ "most-famous-novella" ]
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
Hans Christian Andersen,
[ "suffering", "tears" ]
“Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon."No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "jace", "simon" ]
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
[ "books", "humor" ]
“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
Stephenie Meyer,
[ "inspirational", "love" ]
“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "be-yourself", "be-yourself-inspirational", "be-yourself-quote", "be-yourself-quotes", "heart", "inner-voice", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "life", "life-quotes", "living", "optimism", "optimistic", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life", "positive-thinking", "wisdom", "wise" ]
“Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "character", "class", "common-sense", "dignity", "happiness", "health", "inner-peace", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "integrity", "life", "life-quotes", "love", "manners", "money", "morals", "patience", "respect", "time", "trust" ]
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
George Carlin
[ "fighting", "humor", "misattributed-george-carlin", "peace", "sex" ]
“It's not because I want to make out with her."Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit”
John Green,
[ "funny" ]
“أحيانًا يساعدنا الآخرون بأن يكونوا Ù�Ù‰ حياتنا Ù�حسب”
أحمد خالد تو�يق
[ "life" ]
“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "challenge", "enjoy-the-journey", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-attitude", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "keep-moving-forward", "life", "life-and-living", "life-lessons", "life-quotes", "living", "motivation", "motivational", "move-on", "optimism", "optimistic", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life", "positive-thinking" ]
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
Maya Angelou
[ "courage", "love", "trust" ]
“I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Pablo Neruda,
[ "love" ]
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
Kathryn Stockett,
[ "inspirational" ]
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
J.R.R. Tolkien,
[ "lotr", "war" ]
“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
Kurt Vonnegut,
[ "art", "arts-and-humanities", "creative-process", "writing" ]
“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
Sarah Dessen
[ "self-denial", "self-disclosure" ]
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
Rumi
[ "inspirational" ]
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
George Orwell
[ "generations-intelligence-wisdom" ]
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
Anais Nin
[ "independence", "women" ]
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.”
Kahlil Gibran
[ "poetry", "wisdom" ]