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1,264 | “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?” | famous_quote |
1,884 | “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.” | famous_quote |
1,809 | “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.” | famous_quote |
2,341 | “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” | famous_quote |
2,256 | “There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and jus... | famous_quote |
1,111 | “Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.” | famous_quote |
817 | “Don't JustDon't just learn, experience.Don't just read, absorb.Don't just change, transform.Don't just relate, advocate.Don't just promise, prove.Don't just criticize, encourage.Don't just think, ponder.Don't just take, give.Don't just see, feel.Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen.Don't just talk, act.Don'... | famous_quote |
1,799 | “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.” | famous_quote |
1,960 | “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.” | famous_quote |
2,437 | “If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!” | famous_quote |
2,372 | “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” | famous_quote |
888 | “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” | famous_quote |
1,855 | “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” | famous_quote |
1,180 | “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.” | famous_quote |
667 | “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” | famous_quote |
632 | “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” | famous_quote |
1,642 | “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” | famous_quote |
136 | “Do one thing every day that scares you.” | famous_quote |
1,946 | “1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don't Take Anything PersonallyNothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a project... | famous_quote |
1,697 | “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.” | famous_quote |
427 | “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” | famous_quote |
1,475 | “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens” | famous_quote |
818 | “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Si... | famous_quote |
2,188 | “I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.” | famous_quote |
1,106 | “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” | famous_quote |
2,224 | “You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'bel... | famous_quote |
197 | “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” | famous_quote |
1,995 | “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.So that's my ... | famous_quote |
2,448 | “I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.” | famous_quote |
470 | “A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever” | famous_quote |
2,265 | “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.” | 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 |
928 | “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” | famous_quote |
2,010 | “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...” | famous_quote |
905 | “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” | famous_quote |
2,222 | “Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.” | famous_quote |
22 | “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” | famous_quote |
234 | “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” | famous_quote |
1,124 | “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.” | famous_quote |
928 | “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” | famous_quote |
522 | “I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?" says Caesar.Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever sin... | famous_quote |
1,808 | “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” | famous_quote |
430 | “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 |
792 | “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” | famous_quote |
1,629 | “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” | famous_quote |
1,736 | “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” | famous_quote |
532 | “Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.''Seventeen,... | famous_quote |
1,746 | “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” | famous_quote |
1,675 | “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” | famous_quote |
1,316 | “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” | famous_quote |
912 | “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. Beaut... | famous_quote |
1,124 | “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.” | famous_quote |
1,525 | “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” | famous_quote |
1,327 | “Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing th... | famous_quote |
1,023 | “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” | famous_quote |
1,576 | “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.” | famous_quote |
1,378 | “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” | famous_quote |
1,519 | “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.” | famous_quote |
1,681 | “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” | famous_quote |
1,997 | “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.” | famous_quote |
226 | “Jesus!" Luke exclaimed."Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.” | famous_quote |
1,259 | “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” | famous_quote |
872 | “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” | famous_quote |
891 | “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” | famous_quote |
1,478 | “You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.” | famous_quote |
1,036 | “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” | famous_quote |
2,257 | “I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.” | famous_quote |
396 | “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” | famous_quote |
1,123 | “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.” | famous_quote |
2,078 | “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ” | famous_quote |
648 | “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—"Old Man's Advice... | famous_quote |
328 | “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” | famous_quote |
1,482 | “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a gre... | famous_quote |
951 | “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” | famous_quote |
2,005 | “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” | famous_quote |
2,016 | “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.” | famous_quote |
1,878 | “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 not... | famous_quote |
1,196 | “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” | famous_quote |
1,772 | “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” | famous_quote |
161 | “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” | famous_quote |
1,751 | “Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.” | 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. Bu... | famous_quote |
1,827 | “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.” | famous_quote |
2,321 | “Don't let the muggles get you down.” | famous_quote |
1,051 | “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beet... | famous_quote |
2,373 | “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” | famous_quote |
939 | “Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.” | famous_quote |
539 | “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” | famous_quote |
821 | “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.” | famous_quote |
1,461 | “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” | famous_quote |
1,088 | “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” | famous_quote |
355 | “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.” | famous_quote |
234 | “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” | famous_quote |
2,274 | “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.” | famous_quote |
1,548 | “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.” | famous_quote |
2,096 | “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” | famous_quote |
117 | “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” | famous_quote |
2,101 | “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” | famous_quote |
1,673 | “Let our scars fall in love.” | famous_quote |
1,067 | “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” | famous_quote |
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