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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 just go for it.” | 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't just tell, show.Don't just exist, live.” | 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 projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. 3. Don't Make AssumptionsFind the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 4. Always Do Your BestYour best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.” | 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. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.” | 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, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.” | 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 wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” | 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 since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping."Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.She have another fellow?" asks Caesar.I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta.So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning...won’t help in my case," says Peeta.Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because...because...she came here with me.” | 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,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'I was kind of crying by then.” | 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. Beautiful people do not just happen.” | 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 this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace” | 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 to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64” | 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 great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” | 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 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.” | 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. 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 |
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 Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail. A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live. When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” | 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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