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822 | “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” | famous_quote |
943 | “Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.""Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.” | famous_quote |
2,001 | “I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.” | famous_quote |
2,054 | “It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ...""I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.” | famous_quote |
329 | “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” | famous_quote |
774 | “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” | famous_quote |
2,198 | “If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.” | famous_quote |
146 | “Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!” | famous_quote |
914 | “Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” | famous_quote |
1,571 | “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” | famous_quote |
1,308 | “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” | famous_quote |
81 | “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” | famous_quote |
513 | “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” | famous_quote |
1,920 | “Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.” | famous_quote |
1,939 | “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.” | famous_quote |
745 | “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” | famous_quote |
1,409 | “Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.” | famous_quote |
706 | “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” | famous_quote |
470 | “A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever” | 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 |
1,555 | “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 |
2,308 | “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.” | 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 |
933 | “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” | famous_quote |
1,279 | “Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” | 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 |
904 | “People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.” | famous_quote |
1,076 | “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.” | famous_quote |
1,890 | “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” | famous_quote |
1,523 | “Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.” | famous_quote |
1,387 | “All great and precious things are lonely.” | 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 |
592 | “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” | famous_quote |
2,106 | “Even After All this timeThe Sun never says to the Earth,"You owe me."LookWhat happensWith a love like that,It lights the whole sky.” | famous_quote |
127 | “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” | famous_quote |
735 | “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” | famous_quote |
520 | “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.” | famous_quote |
236 | “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” | famous_quote |
1,304 | “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” | famous_quote |
1,781 | “No one has ever become poor by giving.” | famous_quote |
1,301 | “You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?” | famous_quote |
2,051 | “What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it.” | famous_quote |
441 | “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” | 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 |
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 |
74 | “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” | famous_quote |
2,175 | “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.” | famous_quote |
2,089 | “make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.” | famous_quote |
1,379 | “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” | famous_quote |
40 | “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” | famous_quote |
2,081 | “The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.” | famous_quote |
1,700 | “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” | famous_quote |
1,401 | “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” | famous_quote |
587 | “Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” | famous_quote |
1,622 | “I like good strong words that mean something…” | famous_quote |
341 | “You are, and always have been, my dream.” | famous_quote |
2,074 | “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” | famous_quote |
645 | “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” | famous_quote |
730 | “Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.” | famous_quote |
167 | “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.” | famous_quote |
609 | “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.” | famous_quote |
2,315 | “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.” | famous_quote |
1,772 | “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” | famous_quote |
2,040 | “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself” | famous_quote |
454 | “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.” | famous_quote |
1,708 | “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.” | famous_quote |
701 | “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” | famous_quote |
1,599 | “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” | famous_quote |
129 | “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” | famous_quote |
1,845 | “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” | famous_quote |
1,386 | “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.” | famous_quote |
692 | “What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.” | famous_quote |
1,394 | “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” | famous_quote |
793 | “Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.” | famous_quote |
28 | “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” | famous_quote |
148 | “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” | famous_quote |
1,319 | “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” | famous_quote |
2,058 | “Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.” | famous_quote |
1,136 | “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” | famous_quote |
186 | “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” | famous_quote |
1,250 | “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” | famous_quote |
1,333 | “How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh” | famous_quote |
97 | “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” | famous_quote |
54 | “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” | famous_quote |
757 | “What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.” | famous_quote |
405 | “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” | famous_quote |
2,116 | “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” | 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 |
1,785 | “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” | famous_quote |
750 | “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” | famous_quote |
1,762 | “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” | famous_quote |
364 | “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” | famous_quote |
2,026 | “An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?""Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?""Well, you can’t break an Unbreakable Vow...""I’d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.” | famous_quote |
481 | “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” | famous_quote |
2,248 | “Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.” | famous_quote |
153 | “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” | famous_quote |
1,524 | “This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” | famous_quote |
2,120 | “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” | famous_quote |
2,343 | “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.” | famous_quote |
1,040 | “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” | famous_quote |
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