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1,179 | “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.” | famous_quote |
189 | “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” | famous_quote |
882 | “Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.” | famous_quote |
2,310 | “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” | famous_quote |
399 | “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” | famous_quote |
608 | “All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.” | famous_quote |
1,795 | “I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!” | famous_quote |
1,638 | “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” | famous_quote |
1,575 | “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” | famous_quote |
2,148 | “I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?” | famous_quote |
1,382 | “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.” | famous_quote |
1,403 | “What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?""I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you.""Why?""Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?” | famous_quote |
819 | “Books are the mirrors of the soul.” | famous_quote |
819 | “Books are the mirrors of the soul.” | famous_quote |
419 | “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.” | famous_quote |
123 | “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” | famous_quote |
421 | “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.” | famous_quote |
1,508 | “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” | famous_quote |
1,597 | “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 know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret.""Tell me." I loved it when he was like this."I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it.""Why me?""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes."I swear it," he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned."I feel like I could eat the world raw.” | famous_quote |
767 | “because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.” | famous_quote |
2,044 | “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” | famous_quote |
2,202 | “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” | famous_quote |
2,139 | “If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.” | famous_quote |
1,549 | “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” | famous_quote |
2,502 | “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” | famous_quote |
1,764 | “This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.” | famous_quote |
2,044 | “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” | famous_quote |
509 | “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” | famous_quote |
1,206 | “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” | famous_quote |
385 | “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.” | famous_quote |
1,597 | “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 know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret.""Tell me." I loved it when he was like this."I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it.""Why me?""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes."I swear it," he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned."I feel like I could eat the world raw.” | famous_quote |
2,452 | “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” | famous_quote |
2,293 | “Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?” | famous_quote |
741 | “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” | famous_quote |
1,911 | “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.” | famous_quote |
1,446 | “Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. "Look. Jammies.""Jace," Clary said, "this is important.""Don't tell me," he said. "You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge," he said as an afterthought. "I hear he'll do anything for a -""JACE!" she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream. "JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?” | famous_quote |
900 | “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” | famous_quote |
2,112 | “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” | famous_quote |
2,260 | “Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.” | famous_quote |
2,009 | “I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.” | famous_quote |
241 | “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” | famous_quote |
2,385 | “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” | famous_quote |
2,020 | “We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” | famous_quote |
172 | “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” | famous_quote |
671 | “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.” | famous_quote |
163 | “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.” | famous_quote |
464 | “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?” | famous_quote |
496 | “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” | famous_quote |
699 | “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” | famous_quote |
2,442 | “There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.” | famous_quote |
702 | “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” | famous_quote |
1,940 | “Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.” | famous_quote |
2,355 | “Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” | famous_quote |
1,791 | “Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.” | famous_quote |
182 | “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” | famous_quote |
628 | “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” | famous_quote |
1,731 | “A word after a word after a word is power.” | famous_quote |
545 | “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!” | famous_quote |
1,587 | “You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.” | famous_quote |
623 | “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” | famous_quote |
593 | “Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?""No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.” | famous_quote |
743 | “Resist much, obey little.” | famous_quote |
1,768 | “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” | famous_quote |
1,459 | “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” | famous_quote |
1,948 | “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” | famous_quote |
2,068 | “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” | famous_quote |
2,444 | “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” | famous_quote |
104 | “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.” | famous_quote |
2,239 | “You’ll get over it…â€� It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘itâ€� is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” | famous_quote |
16 | “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” | famous_quote |
392 | “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” | famous_quote |
424 | “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.” | famous_quote |
2,176 | “You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron."What did you have to imitate her for?""She laughed at my mustache!""So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.” | famous_quote |
571 | “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | famous_quote |
2,076 | “The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” | famous_quote |
1,120 | “Forever is composed of nows.” | famous_quote |
241 | “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” | famous_quote |
2,279 | “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.” | famous_quote |
788 | “Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.” | famous_quote |
714 | “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” | famous_quote |
758 | “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?” | famous_quote |
775 | “We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.â€�I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.” | famous_quote |
2,247 | “Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” | famous_quote |
78 | “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” | famous_quote |
855 | “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” | famous_quote |
1,439 | “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” | famous_quote |
2,496 | “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” | famous_quote |
2,134 | “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.” | famous_quote |
2,148 | “I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?” | famous_quote |
1,031 | “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” | famous_quote |
844 | “War is what happens when language fails.” | famous_quote |
86 | “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” | famous_quote |
2,090 | “Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.” | famous_quote |
407 | “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” | famous_quote |
1,668 | “I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.” | famous_quote |
147 | “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” | famous_quote |
2,324 | “The mountains are calling and I must go.” | famous_quote |
231 | “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.” | famous_quote |
1,950 | “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” | famous_quote |
365 | “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” | famous_quote |
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