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1,214 | “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” | famous_quote |
1,215 | “The first draft of anything is shit.” | famous_quote |
1,216 | “Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about... | famous_quote |
1,217 | “As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.” | famous_quote |
1,218 | “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” | famous_quote |
1,219 | “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...” | famous_quote |
1,220 | “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” | famous_quote |
1,221 | “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” | famous_quote |
1,222 | “Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.” | famous_quote |
1,223 | “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” | famous_quote |
1,224 | “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ” | famous_quote |
1,225 | “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” | famous_quote |
1,226 | “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” | famous_quote |
1,227 | “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” | famous_quote |
1,228 | “Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.” | famous_quote |
1,229 | “If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?” | famous_quote |
1,230 | “Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.” | famous_quote |
1,231 | “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” | famous_quote |
1,232 | “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” | famous_quote |
1,233 | “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” | famous_quote |
1,234 | “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” | famous_quote |
1,235 | “How did it get so late so soon?” | famous_quote |
1,236 | “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication... | famous_quote |
1,237 | “I can resist anything except temptation.” | famous_quote |
1,238 | “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.” | famous_quote |
1,239 | “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” | famous_quote |
1,240 | “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” | famous_quote |
1,241 | “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.” | famous_quote |
1,242 | “Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, ... | famous_quote |
1,243 | “Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.” | famous_quote |
1,244 | “Even death has a heart.” | famous_quote |
1,245 | “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” | famous_quote |
1,246 | “You speak an infinite deal of nothing.” | famous_quote |
1,247 | “It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what... | famous_quote |
1,248 | “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” | famous_quote |
1,249 | “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and... | famous_quote |
1,250 | “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” | famous_quote |
1,251 | “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.” | famous_quote |
1,252 | “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” | famous_quote |
1,253 | “You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.” | famous_quote |
1,254 | “To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.” | famous_quote |
1,255 | “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” | famous_quote |
1,256 | “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” | famous_quote |
1,257 | “Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.” | famous_quote |
1,258 | “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.” | famous_quote |
1,259 | “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.” | famous_quote |
1,260 | “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.” | famous_quote |
1,261 | “Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.” | famous_quote |
1,262 | “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” | famous_quote |
1,263 | “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” | famous_quote |
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 |
1,265 | “I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight ye... | famous_quote |
1,266 | “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” | famous_quote |
1,267 | “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.” | famous_quote |
1,268 | “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” | famous_quote |
1,269 | “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” | famous_quote |
1,270 | “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” | famous_quote |
1,271 | “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” | famous_quote |
1,272 | “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?” | famous_quote |
1,273 | “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” | famous_quote |
1,274 | “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” | famous_quote |
1,275 | “Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!” | famous_quote |
1,276 | “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” | famous_quote |
1,277 | “Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deform... | famous_quote |
1,278 | “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!” | famous_quote |
1,279 | “Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” | famous_quote |
1,280 | “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” | famous_quote |
1,281 | “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” | famous_quote |
1,282 | “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” | famous_quote |
1,283 | “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.” | famous_quote |
1,284 | “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” | famous_quote |
1,285 | “It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business wi... | famous_quote |
1,286 | “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.” | famous_quote |
1,287 | “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.” | famous_quote |
1,288 | “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” | famous_quote |
1,289 | “I am a cage, in search of a bird.” | famous_quote |
1,290 | “And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.” | famous_quote |
1,291 | “To say goodbye is to die a little.” | famous_quote |
1,292 | “Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.” | famous_quote |
1,293 | “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” | famous_quote |
1,294 | “Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.” | famous_quote |
1,295 | “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.” | famous_quote |
1,296 | “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” | famous_quote |
1,297 | “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” | famous_quote |
1,298 | “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” | famous_quote |
1,299 | “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” | famous_quote |
1,300 | “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” | famous_quote |
1,301 | “You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?” | famous_quote |
1,302 | “Look after my heart - I've left it with you.” | famous_quote |
1,303 | “Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.” | famous_quote |
1,304 | “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” | famous_quote |
1,305 | “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” | famous_quote |
1,306 | “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them” | famous_quote |
1,307 | “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” | famous_quote |
1,308 | “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” | famous_quote |
1,309 | “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” | famous_quote |
1,310 | “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” | famous_quote |
1,311 | “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” | famous_quote |
1,312 | “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.” | famous_quote |
1,313 | “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” | famous_quote |
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