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“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
George Bernard Shaw
[ "animals", "friends", "humor", "vegetarianism" ]
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
[ "insanity", "society" ]
“What day is it?â€� asked Pooh. “It’s today,â€� squeaked Piglet.“My favorite day,â€� said Pooh.”
A.A. Milne
[ "live-in-the-moment", "optimism" ]
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
Oscar Wilde
[ "beauty", "humour" ]
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
George Eliot
[ "inspirational" ]
“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
Charlotte Brontë,
[ "age", "empowerment", "equality", "experience", "freedom", "gender", "independence", "men", "reason", "self-determination", "submission", "superiority", "women", "women-s-rights" ]
“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "dumbledore", "magic", "music", "power-of-music" ]
“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "clockwork-angel", "will-herondale", "william-herondale" ]
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso
[ "art" ]
“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
Margaret Walker
[ "books", "inspirational" ]
“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
Rick Riordan,
[ "fate", "future", "knowledge" ]
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
[ "faith", "humanity", "ocean" ]
“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”
Veronica Roth,
[ "bravery", "choices", "courage", "sacrifice" ]
“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
Roy T. Bennett
[ "experience", "gratitude", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "life", "life-quotes", "living", "optimism", "optimistic", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life", "positive-thinking", "thankful" ]
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”
Nicholas Sparks,
[ "goodbye", "inspiration", "love" ]
“I'm going to wake Peeta," I say."No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his."Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over until our faces are inches frim his nose, and give him a shake. "Peeta. Peeta, wake up," I say in a soft, singsong voice.His eyelids flutter open and then he jumps like we've stabbed him. "Aa!"Finnick and I fall back in the sand, laughing our heads off. Every time we try to stop, we look at Peeta's attempt to maintain a disdainful expression and it sets us off again.”
Suzanne Collins,
[ "funny", "humor", "prank" ]
“The moon is a loyal companion.It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
Tahereh Mafi,
[ "moon", "spiritual" ]
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "grief", "healing", "magnus-bane", "time", "will-herondale" ]
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde
[ "humor", "taste" ]
“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
Stephen Fry
[ "advice", "depression", "friendship", "life", "self-help" ]
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Elie Wiesel
[ "deep", "friendship", "life", "love", "obsession", "sharing" ]
“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?â€� I say.“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,â€� he says.“You should wake me,â€� I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,â€� he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
Suzanne Collins,
[ "catching-fire", "katniss-and-peeta", "katniss-everdeen", "love", "peeta-mellark", "romance", "the-hunger-games" ]
“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
Abraham Lincoln
[ "frienship", "success" ]
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
Maya Angelou
[ "adversity", "character", "failure", "perseverance" ]
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
Rumi,
[ "wisdom" ]
“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "harry-potter" ]
“Have you really read all those books in your room?â€�Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
John Green,
[ "books", "library", "reading" ]
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
Lemony Snicket,
[ "hope", "mail" ]
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran
[ "emotion", "heartbreak", "lost-love", "love", "parting" ]
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”
John Green,
[ "simon_bolivar-s_labyrinth" ]
“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
Julio Cortázar
[ "love", "poem", "relationships", "romance" ]
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
Blaise Pascal
[ "heart", "love", "quip", "reason" ]
“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
Nikolai V. Gogol
[ "humor", "sadness" ]
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
[ "bravery", "courage" ]
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
[ "perspective", "positive-attitude" ]
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
Paulo Coelho
[ "inspirational", "sadness", "writing" ]
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
Sarah Williams,
[ "poetry", "science", "stars" ]
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
[ "loneliness", "loss", "yearning" ]
“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
Benjamin Alire Sáenz,
[ "answers", "love", "true", "universe" ]
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
Dr. Seuss
[ "adulthood", "childhood" ]
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
John Updike,
[ "love" ]
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Jane Austen,
[ "happiness" ]
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
Charles Lamb,
[ "friendship", "nonsense" ]
“The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. "Did you? Did you want me?"His words came out thickly. "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together.""Then why did you lie to me?"We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help. "Why did you lie?" I murmured again.Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer."Because we can't be together.""Because of the age thing, right?" I asked. "Because you're my mentor?"His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. "That's part of it," he said. "But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her."I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out."No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”
Richelle Mead,
[ "dimitri", "rose", "vampire-academy" ]
“People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”
Nicholas Sparks,
[ "friends", "life" ]
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
Carl Sagan,
[ "atoms", "cosmos", "dna", "sense-of-wonder", "stars" ]
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
Rebecca West
[ "feminism", "qotd" ]
“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
Yogi Berra,
[ "funny" ]
“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
Nick Hornby
[ "films", "music", "relationships" ]
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
Santosh Kalwar,
[ "addiction", "life-lessons", "philosophy", "thinking", "thoughts" ]
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
J.K.Rowling,
[ "dumbledore", "philosophy" ]
“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
Brian Andreas,
[ "inspiration", "love", "story-people" ]
“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.”
Maya Angelou,
[ "phenomenal-woman" ]
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
Chuck Palahniuk,
[ "love" ]
“Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets.Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "clary-fray", "jace-wayland", "shadowhunters", "simon" ]
“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
Jon Krakauer,
[ "empowerment", "strength" ]
“What do you want?""Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "coffee", "soul" ]
“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
Robert Frost
[ "laughter" ]
“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "be-yourself", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-attitude", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "life", "life-and-living", "life-lessons", "life-quotes", "living", "optimism", "optimistic", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life", "positive-thinking" ]
“I cannot go to school today"Said little Peggy Ann McKay."I have the measles and the mumps,A gash, a rash and purple bumps.My mouth is wet, my throat is dry.I'm going blind in my right eye.My tonsils are as big as rocks,I've counted sixteen chicken pox.And there's one more - that's seventeen,And don't you think my face looks green?My leg is cut, my eyes are blue,It might be the instamatic flu.I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,I'm sure that my left leg is broke.My hip hurts when I move my chin,My belly button's caving in.My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,My 'pendix pains each time it rains.My toes are cold, my toes are numb,I have a sliver in my thumb.My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,I hardly whisper when I speak.My tongue is filling up my mouth,I think my hair is falling out.My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,My temperature is one-o-eight.My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,There's a hole inside my ear.I have a hangnail, and my heart is ...What? What's that? What's that you say?You say today is .............. Saturday?G'bye, I'm going out to play!”
Shel Silverstein
[ "children", "funny", "poem" ]
“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
Charlotte Brontë
[ "companionship", "loneliness", "marriage", "single", "spinsterhood" ]
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy,
[ "dreams", "music" ]
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
Jack Kerouac
[ "on-the-road", "sal-paradise" ]
“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
Stephanie Perkins,
[ "home", "lover", "person" ]
“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
Margaret Atwood,
[ "inspirational" ]
“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”
Mitch Albom
[ "love" ]
“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
Bill Cosby
[ "funny" ]
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
Peter Shaffer,
[ "life", "life-lessons" ]
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
jonathan safran foer
[ "desperate", "life", "losing", "love", "nostalgia", "pain", "regret", "solitude" ]
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson,
[ "travel" ]
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
Anne Frank,
[ "beauty", "hope", "inspirational", "joy" ]
“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”
Sarah Dessen,
[ "life", "love" ]
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
Oscar Wilde,
[ "children", "parents" ]
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
Michael Crichton
[ "history" ]
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
Adrienne Rich
[ "inspirational" ]
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
Charles Dickens,
[ "communication", "psychology" ]
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ursula K. Le Guin,
[ "goals", "journey", "travel" ]
“I must have loved you a lot.”
Suzanne Collins,
[ "mockingjay", "peeta-mellark" ]
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more."Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore —For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless here for evermore.And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door —Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more."Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more.Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice:Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore —Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; — 'Tis the wind and nothing more."Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door —Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more.Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore —Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,Though its answer little meaning— little relevancy bore;For we cannot help agreeing that no living human beingEver yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door —Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.”
Edgar Allan Poe,
[ "hopelessness", "pain" ]
“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
Ray Bradbury
[ "writing" ]
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain
[ "bravery", "dog", "famous", "inspirational", "valour" ]
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
Lao Tzu,
[ "ataraxy", "be-yourself", "integrity", "self-reliance", "self-respect" ]
“One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.”
Sophocles
[ "love", "pain" ]
“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
Michelle Hodkin,
[ "inspirational-quotes", "mara-dyer", "reality", "truth" ]
“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
Bill Watterson
[ "bad-day", "calvin-and-hobbes", "luck" ]
“We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.”
Rick Riordan,
[ "annabeth-chase", "emotion", "heartbreak", "love", "percy-jackson" ]
“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
Kiera Cass,
[ "inconvenient", "love", "relationship", "true-love" ]
“When I was your age, television was called books.”
William Goldman,
[ "book", "fantasy", "humour" ]
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
Bob Marley
[ "inspirational-life" ]
“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
Edgar Allan Poe
[ "heartache", "loss", "love" ]
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
Albert Schweitzer
[ "cats", "life", "music" ]
“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
Emilie Autumn,
[ "fight", "friends", "friendship", "kill", "loyalty", "strength" ]
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
John Muir
[ "inspirational" ]
“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "humor", "trust" ]
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[ "books", "learning", "love", "serenity" ]
“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
J.D. Salinger,
[ "friendship", "insincerity", "manners" ]
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James Baldwin
[ "parenting", "role-models" ]
“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
Neil Gaiman
[ "books", "libraries", "library", "reading" ]
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
Randy Pausch,
[ "barriers", "challenges", "failure", "failures", "inspirational", "perseverance" ]
“You can make anything by writing.”
C.S. Lewis
[ "writing" ]