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1,014 | “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” | famous_quote |
1,015 | “Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” | famous_quote |
1,016 | “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.” | famous_quote |
1,017 | “Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.” | famous_quote |
1,018 | “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” | famous_quote |
1,019 | “The more I see, the less I know for sure.” | famous_quote |
1,020 | “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” | famous_quote |
1,021 | “There are no facts, only interpretations.” | famous_quote |
1,022 | “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.” | famous_quote |
1,023 | “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” | famous_quote |
1,024 | “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.” | famous_quote |
1,025 | “HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...” | famous_quote |
1,026 | “Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.” | famous_quote |
1,027 | “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” | famous_quote |
1,028 | “You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes,over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers.Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your placein the family of things.” | famous_quote |
1,029 | “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.” | famous_quote |
1,030 | “You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.” | 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 |
1,032 | “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.” | famous_quote |
1,033 | “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” | famous_quote |
1,034 | “Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now.""That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.” | famous_quote |
1,035 | “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” | famous_quote |
1,036 | “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” | famous_quote |
1,037 | “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” | famous_quote |
1,038 | “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” | famous_quote |
1,039 | “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” | famous_quote |
1,040 | “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” | famous_quote |
1,041 | “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” | famous_quote |
1,042 | “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” | famous_quote |
1,043 | “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ” | famous_quote |
1,044 | “أجمل Øب هو الذي نعثر عليه أثناء بØثنا عن شيء آخر” | famous_quote |
1,045 | “Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.” | famous_quote |
1,046 | “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.” | famous_quote |
1,047 | “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.” | famous_quote |
1,048 | “All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.” | famous_quote |
1,049 | “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.” | famous_quote |
1,050 | “Don't Panic.” | 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 |
1,052 | “Live to the point of tears.” | famous_quote |
1,053 | “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” | famous_quote |
1,054 | “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” | famous_quote |
1,055 | “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” | famous_quote |
1,056 | “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” | famous_quote |
1,057 | “To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” | famous_quote |
1,058 | “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” | famous_quote |
1,059 | “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” | famous_quote |
1,060 | “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” | famous_quote |
1,061 | “Find what you love and let it kill you.” | famous_quote |
1,062 | “It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.” | famous_quote |
1,063 | “Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)” | famous_quote |
1,064 | “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured” | famous_quote |
1,065 | “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” | famous_quote |
1,066 | “Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final” | famous_quote |
1,067 | “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” | famous_quote |
1,068 | “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” | famous_quote |
1,069 | “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” | famous_quote |
1,070 | “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” | famous_quote |
1,071 | “Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –""Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet.""Great idea though, thanks, Mum.” | famous_quote |
1,072 | “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” | famous_quote |
1,073 | “What are men to rocks and mountains?” | famous_quote |
1,074 | “You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".” | famous_quote |
1,075 | “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” | famous_quote |
1,076 | “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.” | famous_quote |
1,077 | “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” | famous_quote |
1,078 | “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.” | famous_quote |
1,079 | “Ah,â€� said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,â€� said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.” | famous_quote |
1,080 | “If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?” | famous_quote |
1,081 | “Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.” | famous_quote |
1,082 | “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” | famous_quote |
1,083 | “You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!” | famous_quote |
1,084 | “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” | famous_quote |
1,085 | “Hate the sin, love the sinner.” | famous_quote |
1,086 | “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” | famous_quote |
1,087 | “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” | famous_quote |
1,088 | “I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” | famous_quote |
1,089 | “Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?” | famous_quote |
1,090 | “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” | famous_quote |
1,091 | “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul” | famous_quote |
1,092 | “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” | famous_quote |
1,093 | “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” | famous_quote |
1,094 | “You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places.""Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?""It was an analogy.""I am not fat.” | famous_quote |
1,095 | “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” | famous_quote |
1,096 | “Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land” | famous_quote |
1,097 | “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” | famous_quote |
1,098 | “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.” | famous_quote |
1,099 | “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.” | famous_quote |
1,100 | “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” | famous_quote |
1,101 | “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” | famous_quote |
1,102 | “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” | famous_quote |
1,103 | “He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.” | famous_quote |
1,104 | “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” | famous_quote |
1,105 | “Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored."In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.""You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken."Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.""I didn't invite him into bed," Clary snapped. "We were just kissing.""Just kissing?" Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. "How swiftly you dismiss our love.” | 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 |
1,107 | “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” | famous_quote |
1,108 | “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” | famous_quote |
1,109 | “All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” | famous_quote |
1,110 | “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” | famous_quote |
1,111 | “Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.” | famous_quote |
1,112 | “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” | famous_quote |
1,113 | “And so it goes...” | famous_quote |
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