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1,664 | “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.” | 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 |
60 | “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” | famous_quote |
938 | “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” | famous_quote |
1,639 | “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” | 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 |
24 | “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” | 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 |
130 | “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” | famous_quote |
1,252 | “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” | famous_quote |
107 | “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” | famous_quote |
171 | “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” | famous_quote |
1,458 | “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” | famous_quote |
101 | “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.” | famous_quote |
2,322 | “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” | 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 |
1,040 | “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” | 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 |
1,520 | “Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” | famous_quote |
11 | “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” | famous_quote |
1,341 | “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” | famous_quote |
215 | “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” | famous_quote |
338 | “So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.” | famous_quote |
1,799 | “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.” | famous_quote |
1,750 | “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” | famous_quote |
1,508 | “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” | famous_quote |
2,421 | “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.” | 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 |
1,223 | “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 |
1,112 | “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” | famous_quote |
1,291 | “To say goodbye is to die a little.” | famous_quote |
488 | “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” | famous_quote |
1,561 | “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” | famous_quote |
46 | “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” | famous_quote |
777 | “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” | famous_quote |
1,039 | “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” | famous_quote |
710 | “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” | famous_quote |
400 | “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” | famous_quote |
1,817 | “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite” | famous_quote |
249 | “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” | famous_quote |
390 | “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?” | famous_quote |
334 | “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” | famous_quote |
628 | “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” | famous_quote |
136 | “Do one thing every day that scares you.” | famous_quote |
1,521 | “If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.” | famous_quote |
826 | “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” | famous_quote |
726 | “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” | famous_quote |
1,500 | “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.” | famous_quote |
989 | “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” | famous_quote |
2,419 | “This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.” | famous_quote |
934 | “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” | famous_quote |
401 | “Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love.” | famous_quote |
1,466 | “I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.” | famous_quote |
614 | “The unexamined life is not worth living.” | famous_quote |
1,296 | “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” | famous_quote |
1,182 | “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” | famous_quote |
2,235 | “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” | famous_quote |
1,121 | “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” | famous_quote |
130 | “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.” | famous_quote |
1,194 | “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” | famous_quote |
182 | “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” | famous_quote |
363 | “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.” | famous_quote |
38 | “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” | famous_quote |
1,372 | “I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.” | famous_quote |
920 | “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” | famous_quote |
15 | “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” | famous_quote |
492 | “I am not young enough to know everything.” | famous_quote |
1,449 | “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” | famous_quote |
1,131 | “Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.” | famous_quote |
310 | “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.” | famous_quote |
738 | “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” | famous_quote |
545 | “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!” | famous_quote |
2,461 | “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.” | famous_quote |
250 | “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” | 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 |
1,804 | “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” | 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 |
1,631 | “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, why storms are named after people.” | famous_quote |
1,914 | “No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.” | famous_quote |
813 | “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” | famous_quote |
28 | “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” | famous_quote |
957 | “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” | famous_quote |
2,032 | “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” | famous_quote |
476 | “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.” | famous_quote |
317 | “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” | famous_quote |
244 | “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” | famous_quote |
747 | “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” | famous_quote |
696 | “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.” | famous_quote |
271 | “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.” | famous_quote |
1,771 | “May the odds be ever in your favor!” | 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 |
2,424 | “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” | famous_quote |
265 | “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.""Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.” | famous_quote |
920 | “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” | famous_quote |
339 | “You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.” | famous_quote |
388 | “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.” | famous_quote |
2,050 | “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” | famous_quote |
1,165 | “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” | famous_quote |
375 | “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.” | famous_quote |
2,033 | “Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” | famous_quote |
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