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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
[ "travel" ]
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
[ "ambiguity", "virtue" ]
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
C.S. Lewis
[ "god" ]
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
John Green,
[ "sadness", "unhappiness" ]
“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
Neil Gaiman
[ "dreams", "sandman" ]
“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
Stephanie Klein,
[ "humor", "life", "memoir", "truth" ]
“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”
Nicholas Sparks,
[ "love" ]
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau,
[ "truth", "values" ]
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
[ "acceptance", "friendship" ]
“We live for books.”
Umberto Eco
[ "bibliophiles", "book-lovers", "books", "reading" ]
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
J.R.R. Tolkien
[ "fantasy", "literature", "philosophy" ]
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
[ "hope", "inspiration", "inspirational", "life", "truth" ]
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
[ "adversity", "beauty", "empathy", "people", "understanding" ]
“Dare to BeWhen a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.When times are tough, dare to be tougher.When love hurts you, dare to love again.When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.Dare to be the best you can –At all times, Dare to be!”
Steve Maraboli,
[ "compassion", "dare-to-be", "gratitude", "inspirational", "life", "motivational", "seize-the-day", "smile", "success" ]
“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
Roy T. Bennett
[ "goodness", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "kindness", "life", "life-quotes", "living", "optimism", "optimistic", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life", "positive-thinking" ]
“I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”
Richelle Mead,
[ "dimitri", "humor", "paranormal-romance", "rose", "urban-fantasy", "vampire", "young-adult-novels" ]
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
Elbert Hubbard
[ "faith", "god", "wisdom" ]
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
Ernest Hemingway,
[ "love", "pain", "relationships", "self" ]
“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
Gillian Anderson
[ "friendship", "love", "men", "relationships", "women" ]
“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”
Sarah Dessen,
[ "forever" ]
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
Pablo Picasso
[ "art", "truth" ]
“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.â€� If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong womenâ€� is code for “I hate strong women.â€�)”
Gillian Flynn,
[ "what-men-really-want" ]
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
Dr. Seuss
[ "humor", "philosophy" ]
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Bertrand Russell
[ "confidence", "eccentricity", "philosophy" ]
“Mom says it's because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?"I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome”
Nicholas Sparks,
[ "humor" ]
“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
Lemony Snicket,
[ "humor" ]
“Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
Langston Hughes,
[ "death", "life", "music" ]
“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
Richelle Mead,
[ "friendship", "humor", "romance" ]
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
Chuck Palahniuk,
[ "chance", "happiness", "risk" ]
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
Maya Angelou,
[ "be-yourself", "self-determination" ]
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
Albert Einstein
[ "music" ]
“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
Terry Pratchett,
[ "cats", "humor", "life" ]
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Ernest Hemingway
[ "trust", "truth" ]
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
P.G. Wodehouse
[ "friendship", "literature" ]
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
[ "classic-insult" ]
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
Elie Wiesel
[ "activism", "ethics", "justice", "philosophy" ]
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
Albert Einstein,
[ "1931", "art", "mystery", "philosophy", "science" ]
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Leonardo da Vinci
[ "art", "inspirational" ]
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
George R.R. Martin,
[ "hurt", "pain", "perfect", "truthful" ]
“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "clary-fray", "jace-wayland", "love" ]
“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "bad", "good", "life" ]
“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”
Sarah Dessen,
[ "owen-armstrong" ]
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
Rumi
[ "bereavement", "consolation", "grief", "loss", "reincarnation" ]
“Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "humor", "investigation", "isabelle-lightwood", "jace-wayland", "joke" ]
“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
Nicholas Sparks,
[ "love", "romance" ]
“The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.They're in each other all along.”
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi,
[ "lovers" ]
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”
Nicholas Sparks
[ "love" ]
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Max Lucado
[ "inspirational", "love" ]
“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Douglas Adams,
[ "flight", "flying", "hg2g", "humor" ]
“You smell good, too,â€� said PatchIt’s called a shower.â€� I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.â€�Naked. I know the drill.”
Becca Fitzpatrick,
[ "hush" ]
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "forgiveness" ]
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
[ "heaven", "religion" ]
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
[ "albert-einstein", "future", "war", "wisdom" ]
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
Stephen King,
[ "writing" ]
“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
Walt Disney
[ "inspirational" ]
“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”
Richelle Mead,
[ "beauty", "love" ]
“What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "humor", "jace", "love", "mortal-instruments" ]
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
William Shakespeare
[ "hamlet", "identity", "possibilities" ]
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.""I don't much care where –""Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
Lewis Carroll,
[ "adventure" ]
“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
Allen Ginsberg
[ "be-yourself", "self-expression" ]
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins,
[ "cancer", "failure", "inspiration", "inspirational", "pain", "quitting" ]
“You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.""There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "ferret" ]
“To define is to limit.”
Oscar Wilde,
[ "dandy", "lord-henry-wotton", "wilde" ]
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
Charles Dickens,
[ "love" ]
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius,
[ "ataraxy", "inner-strength", "inspiration", "self-control", "strength" ]
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Ernest Hemingway
[ "humility", "self-improvement" ]
“Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
Lao Tzu,
[ "wisdom" ]
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
Corrie Ten Boom,
[ "strength", "worry" ]
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
[ "healing", "pain", "remembrance", "scars", "time" ]
“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
C. JoyBell C.
[ "belief", "bravery", "courage", "fear", "fears", "inspirational", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-quotes", "strength" ]
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.,
[ "conscience", "politics", "right" ]
“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
Ray Bradbury,
[ "friendship", "relationships" ]
“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
Lauren Oliver,
[ "amor-deliria-nervosa", "love" ]
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Robert Frost
[ "poetry" ]
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
Jim MORRISON
[ "freedom", "individuality", "inspirational", "mask", "personality", "revolution", "truth" ]
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
Jane Austen,
[ "romantic" ]
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
Henry James
[ "kindness" ]
“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
Lou Holtz
[ "inspiration", "motivation" ]
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
A.A. Milne,
[ "dreams", "together" ]
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
G.K. Chesterton
[ "life", "passion", "war" ]
“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
Nicholas Sparks,
[ "energy", "nicholas-sparks", "relationships", "the-last-song" ]
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
[ "change", "human" ]
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
[ "how", "life", "purpose", "questioning", "questions", "why" ]
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
Dr. Seuss
[ "troubles" ]
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
Diane Duane,
[ "books", "reading" ]
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
D.H. Lawrence,
[ "life", "living", "philosophy", "women" ]
“Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "fairytales" ]
“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”
Taylor Swift
[ "fairy-tales", "inspirational", "prince-charming", "taylor-swift" ]
“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "will-herondale" ]
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Abraham Lincoln
[ "abe", "enemies", "enemy", "friend", "friends", "friendship", "life", "lincoln" ]
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "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", "success" ]
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo,
[ "apothegm", "optimism" ]
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
Lemony Snicket,
[ "humor", "talking", "writers" ]
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
Albert Einstein
[ "inspirational" ]
“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
Santosh Kalwar,
[ "cry", "inspirational", "joke", "love", "romance", "smile" ]
“You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.”
J. K. Rowling,
[ "death", "final", "goodbye", "harry-potter", "lupin", "parents", "sirius" ]
“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
John Green,
[ "death-and-dying" ]
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
Orhan Pamuk,
[ "books", "orhan-pamuk", "reading", "the-new-life" ]
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
Paulo Coelho,
[ "eleven-minutes", "paulo-coelho" ]
“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
Jane Austen
[ "books", "catherine", "or-the-bower" ]