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2,235 | “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” | famous_quote |
379 | “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” | famous_quote |
492 | “I am not young enough to know everything.” | famous_quote |
1,180 | “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.” | famous_quote |
2,062 | “Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!” | famous_quote |
64 | “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” | famous_quote |
1,367 | “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” | famous_quote |
1,152 | “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.” | famous_quote |
2,027 | “Curiouser and curiouser!” | famous_quote |
1,495 | “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.” | famous_quote |
1,162 | “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” | famous_quote |
1,522 | “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” | famous_quote |
391 | “It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.” | famous_quote |
1,698 | “Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.” | famous_quote |
418 | “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” | famous_quote |
2,336 | “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.” | famous_quote |
378 | “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” | famous_quote |
1,796 | “Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.” | famous_quote |
2,278 | “All thinking men are atheists.” | famous_quote |
2,088 | “People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.” | famous_quote |
2,182 | “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” | famous_quote |
200 | “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” | famous_quote |
1,863 | “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?” | famous_quote |
779 | “When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.” | famous_quote |
502 | “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” | famous_quote |
2,454 | “The soul is healed by being with children.” | 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 |
804 | “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” | famous_quote |
2,146 | “He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.” | famous_quote |
1,895 | “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.” | famous_quote |
1,570 | “She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she to... | famous_quote |
960 | “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” | famous_quote |
1,485 | “Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.” | 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 rainar... | famous_quote |
502 | “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” | famous_quote |
397 | “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” | famous_quote |
870 | “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” | famous_quote |
392 | “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” | famous_quote |
206 | “Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.” | famous_quote |
1,038 | “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” | famous_quote |
1,881 | “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” | famous_quote |
1,484 | “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.” | famous_quote |
863 | “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” | famous_quote |
563 | “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” | famous_quote |
1,020 | “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” | famous_quote |
95 | “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” | famous_quote |
1,923 | “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.” | famous_quote |
1,757 | “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.” | famous_quote |
2,278 | “All thinking men are atheists.” | famous_quote |
1,678 | “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.” | famous_quote |
540 | “Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.” | famous_quote |
1,059 | “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” | famous_quote |
1,183 | “It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.” | famous_quote |
1,722 | “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” | famous_quote |
1,819 | “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through t... | 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 ... | famous_quote |
795 | “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” | 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 |
1,643 | “I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.” | famous_quote |
1,363 | “Why were you lurking under our window?""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage."Listening to the news! Again?""Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.” | famous_quote |
1,981 | “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.” | famous_quote |
1,354 | “He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.” | famous_quote |
1,663 | “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” | famous_quote |
1,529 | “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.” | famous_quote |
2,038 | “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” | famous_quote |
1,496 | “Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” | famous_quote |
2,237 | “there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.” | famous_quote |
1,408 | “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” | famous_quote |
1,400 | “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.” | 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 |
972 | “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it” | 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 |
1,282 | “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” | famous_quote |
709 | “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” | famous_quote |
1,479 | “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” | famous_quote |
1,434 | “From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.” | 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 |
317 | “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” | famous_quote |
1,257 | “Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.” | famous_quote |
683 | “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” | famous_quote |
663 | “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” | famous_quote |
1,998 | “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” | famous_quote |
1,631 | “Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, wh... | famous_quote |
1,495 | “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.” | famous_quote |
1,136 | “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” | famous_quote |
1,853 | “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.” | famous_quote |
1,520 | “Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” | famous_quote |
2,489 | “It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” | famous_quote |
563 | “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” | famous_quote |
1,291 | “To say goodbye is to die a little.” | famous_quote |
1,636 | “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” | famous_quote |
698 | “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” | famous_quote |
2,160 | “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.” | famous_quote |
1 | “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” | famous_quote |
641 | “Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.” | famous_quote |
2,267 | “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get... | famous_quote |
1,589 | “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” | famous_quote |
854 | “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” | famous_quote |
1,759 | “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” | famous_quote |
2,432 | “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” | famous_quote |
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