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2,017 | “
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.” | famous_quote |
1,331 | “He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” | famous_quote |
248 | “Do you hate people?â€�“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.” | famous_quote |
165 | “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” | famous_quote |
1,358 | “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.” | famous_quote |
1,019 | “The more I see, the less I know for sure.” | famous_quote |
541 | “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” | famous_quote |
758 | “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?” | famous_quote |
2,128 | “Can you surf really well, then?"I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh."Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)” | famous_quote |
2,180 | “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” | famous_quote |
796 | “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” | famous_quote |
137 | “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” | famous_quote |
2,231 | “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” | famous_quote |
1,353 | “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.” | famous_quote |
1,875 | “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” | famous_quote |
68 | “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” | famous_quote |
2,100 | “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.” | famous_quote |
1,473 | “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” | famous_quote |
204 | “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” | famous_quote |
2,173 | “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ” | famous_quote |
42 | “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” | famous_quote |
1,906 | “Black holes are where God divided by zero.” | famous_quote |
2,158 | “If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""Who's Magnus?" Max inquired."He's a warlock," said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly," said Isabelle.” | famous_quote |
760 | “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” | famous_quote |
2,142 | “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.” | famous_quote |
1,994 | “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” | famous_quote |
1,935 | “Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.” | famous_quote |
899 | “Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell” | famous_quote |
359 | “Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.""Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered."Selling them on what?"Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.” | famous_quote |
1,719 | “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” | famous_quote |
280 | “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” | famous_quote |
1,887 | “When I was your age, television was called books.” | famous_quote |
666 | “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.” | famous_quote |
92 | “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” | famous_quote |
671 | “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.” | famous_quote |
1,969 | “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.” | famous_quote |
60 | “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” | 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 |
1,489 | “He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...” | famous_quote |
603 | “Not my daughter, you bitch!” | famous_quote |
681 | “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” | famous_quote |
1,428 | “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.” | famous_quote |
2,280 | “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” | famous_quote |
523 | “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” | famous_quote |
2,393 | “If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Momâ€�, she’s gonna call me “Point B.â€� Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.â€�She’s gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry, so the first time she realizes that Wonder-woman isn’t coming, I’ll make sure she knows she doesn’t have to wear the cape all by herself. Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.And “Baby,â€� I’ll tell her “don’t keep your nose up in the air like that, I know that trick, you’re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else, find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him.â€�But I know that she will anyway, so instead I’ll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boats nearby, ‘cause there is no heartbreak that chocolate can’t fix. Okay, there’s a few heartbreaks chocolate can’t fix. But that’s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything if you let it.I want her to see the world through the underside of a glass bottom boat, to look through a magnifying glass at the galaxies that exist on the pin point of a human mind. Because that’s how my mom taught me. That there’ll be days like this, “There’ll be days like this my momma saidâ€� when you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you wanna save are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain and you’ll be up to your knees in disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say “thank you,â€� ‘cause there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it’s sent away.You will put the “windâ€� in win some lose some, you will put the “starâ€� in starting over and over, and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting I am pretty damn naive but I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.“Baby,â€� I’ll tell her “remember your mama is a worrier but your papa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.â€�Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you’ve done something wrong but don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.Your voice is small but don’t ever stop singing and when they finally hand you heartbreak, slip hatred and war under your doorstep and hand you hand-outs on street corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.” | famous_quote |
1,968 | “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” | famous_quote |
1,101 | “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” | famous_quote |
1,753 | “You'd think people had better things to gossip about," said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry’s legs and reading the Daily Prophet. "Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest."Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.What did you tell her?"I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail," said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. "Much more macho."Thanks," said Harry, grinning. "And what did you tell her Ron’s got?"A Pygmy Puff, but I didn’t say where.” | famous_quote |
1,836 | “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” | famous_quote |
2,296 | “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” | 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 |
1,144 | “If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” | famous_quote |
2,261 | “The course of true love never did run smooth.” | famous_quote |
2,286 | “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” | 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 |
2,397 | “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” | famous_quote |
106 | “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” | famous_quote |
47 | “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” | famous_quote |
336 | “Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.” | 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 |
1,280 | “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” | famous_quote |
2,055 | “Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ” | famous_quote |
624 | “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” | famous_quote |
1,890 | “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” | famous_quote |
1,276 | “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” | famous_quote |
1,715 | “A house without books is like a room without windows.” | famous_quote |
302 | “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” | famous_quote |
638 | “Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.” | famous_quote |
55 | “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” | famous_quote |
725 | “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.” | famous_quote |
525 | “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” | famous_quote |
473 | “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” | famous_quote |
27 | “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” | famous_quote |
2,125 | “I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?” | famous_quote |
364 | “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” | famous_quote |
525 | “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” | famous_quote |
1,335 | “Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.” | famous_quote |
882 | “Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.” | famous_quote |
1,030 | “You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.” | 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 |
1,646 | “The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.” | famous_quote |
918 | “Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.” | famous_quote |
2,410 | “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.” | famous_quote |
1,774 | “In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.” | 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 |
1,906 | “Black holes are where God divided by zero.” | famous_quote |
1,215 | “The first draft of anything is shit.” | famous_quote |
1,654 | “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” | famous_quote |
484 | “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” | famous_quote |
2,075 | “And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.” | famous_quote |
713 | “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” | 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 |
1,976 | “It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.” | famous_quote |
1,296 | “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” | 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 |
2,133 | “...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.” | famous_quote |
125 | “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” | famous_quote |
536 | “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” | famous_quote |
2,192 | “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” | famous_quote |
2,072 | “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” | famous_quote |
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