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396 | “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” | 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 |
2,224 | “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 |
1,635 | “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” | famous_quote |
395 | “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” | famous_quote |
2,492 | “All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."They're not the same at all!"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"MY POINT EXACTLY.” | famous_quote |
75 | “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” | famous_quote |
264 | “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” | famous_quote |
2,502 | “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” | 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 the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.” | famous_quote |
717 | “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” | famous_quote |
850 | “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” | famous_quote |
1,390 | “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” | famous_quote |
143 | “Reality continues to ruin my life.” | famous_quote |
884 | “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” | famous_quote |
395 | “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” | famous_quote |
1,492 | “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” | famous_quote |
1,167 | “Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.” | 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 |
2,156 | “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” | 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 |
1,209 | “You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.” | famous_quote |
2,445 | “I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist” | famous_quote |
633 | “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” | famous_quote |
1,156 | “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” | famous_quote |
1,238 | “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.” | famous_quote |
732 | “It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.” | famous_quote |
234 | “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” | famous_quote |
750 | “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” | famous_quote |
953 | “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” | famous_quote |
1,542 | “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think” | famous_quote |
1,197 | “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” | famous_quote |
1,676 | “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.” | famous_quote |
1,191 | “I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” | famous_quote |
2,217 | “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.” | famous_quote |
1,416 | “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” | famous_quote |
1,217 | “As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.” | famous_quote |
1,540 | “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” | famous_quote |
2,076 | “The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” | famous_quote |
1,445 | “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.” | famous_quote |
2,386 | “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” | famous_quote |
1,519 | “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.” | famous_quote |
1,388 | “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.” | famous_quote |
1,856 | “What do you want?""Just coffee. Black - like my soul.” | famous_quote |
1,365 | “Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.” | famous_quote |
499 | “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” | famous_quote |
1,680 | “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” | famous_quote |
510 | “What's meant to be will always find a way” | famous_quote |
216 | “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” | famous_quote |
1,324 | “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” | famous_quote |
1,155 | “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.” | 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 |
1,810 | “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” | famous_quote |
2,492 | “All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."They're not the same at all!"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"MY POINT EXACTLY.” | famous_quote |
1,205 | “And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,"You owe Me."Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.” | famous_quote |
2,214 | “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.” | famous_quote |
90 | “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” | famous_quote |
713 | “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” | famous_quote |
1,881 | “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” | famous_quote |
38 | “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” | famous_quote |
172 | “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” | famous_quote |
652 | “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” | famous_quote |
753 | “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” | 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 |
1,081 | “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 |
1,683 | “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.” | famous_quote |
455 | “Never laugh at live dragons.” | famous_quote |
828 | “None but ourselves can free our minds.” | famous_quote |
894 | “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” | famous_quote |
1,384 | “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” | famous_quote |
1,958 | “Did you see that dress?â€� "I saw the dress.â€� "Did you like it?â€� He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?â€� When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school.â€� I smiled and fell asleep.” | famous_quote |
2,434 | “What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.” | famous_quote |
1,996 | “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.” | famous_quote |
2,395 | “If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.” | famous_quote |
189 | “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” | famous_quote |
504 | “Always do what you are afraid to do.” | famous_quote |
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 |
1,531 | “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” | famous_quote |
823 | “I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.” | famous_quote |
928 | “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” | famous_quote |
933 | “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” | famous_quote |
1,140 | “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?” | famous_quote |
133 | “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.” | famous_quote |
2,105 | “When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” | famous_quote |
684 | “I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” | famous_quote |
2,220 | “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” | famous_quote |
1,852 | “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.” | famous_quote |
814 | “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” | famous_quote |
1,172 | “I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.” | famous_quote |
79 | “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” | famous_quote |
202 | “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” | famous_quote |
1,252 | “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” | famous_quote |
1,699 | “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.” | famous_quote |
1,250 | “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” | famous_quote |
1,682 | “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” | famous_quote |
1,555 | “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” | famous_quote |
2,094 | “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” | famous_quote |
1,256 | “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” | famous_quote |
1,549 | “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” | famous_quote |
1,166 | “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.” | famous_quote |
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