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“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
Nicolas Chamfort
[ "god", "joy", "life", "spirituality" ]
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark Twain
[ "books-reading" ]
“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, s...
J.D. Salinger,
[ "antolini" ]
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge,...
Bob Moorehead,
[ "misattributed-george-carlin" ]
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
St. Francis Of Assisi,
[ "inspirational" ]
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?...
John Green,
[ "john-green", "tfios", "the-fault-in-our-stars" ]
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
sylvia plath
[ "goals" ]
“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”
Stephen Chbosky,
[ "the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower" ]
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E.L. Doctorow
[ "writing" ]
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
G.K. Chesterton,
[ "cheese", "poetry" ]
“Laters, baby.”
E.L. James,
[ "christina-grey", "e-l-james", "fifty-shades-of-grey" ]
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Robert Frost
[ "love" ]
“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
C. JoyBell C.
[ "forgetting", "hate", "inspirational", "inspirational-attitude", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-quotes", "letting-go", "life", "life-and-living", "living", "strength" ]
“How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.George's fingers groped for the side of his head."Saintlike," he murmured."What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?""Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "harry-potter", "humor" ]
“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
Erica Jong
[ "courage", "talent" ]
“Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "adversity", "authentic-living", "being-positive", "faith", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "life", "life-and-living", "life-quotes", "motivation", "never-give-up", "optimism", "optimistic", "persistence", "positive", "positive-affirmation", "positive-life",...
“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
Steven Wright
[ "amnesia", "humor", "memory" ]
“Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "life" ]
“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
J.K. Rowling
[ "books", "magic", "magic-books" ]
“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
John Lennon
[ "beatles", "life", "perception", "truth" ]
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
Frank Herbert
[ "endings", "happy-endings", "writing" ]
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
[ "perspective", "truth" ]
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
L. Frank Baum,
[ "knowledge", "thievery", "treasure" ]
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
[ "hell", "love", "suffering" ]
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
Sylvia Plath,
[ "mood-swings" ]
“HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
[ "happiness", "hope", "inspirational", "new-year" ]
“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.”
Robert Frost
[ "poetry" ]
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
Emily Dickinson
[ "life", "love" ]
“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...
Mary Oliver
[ "beauty", "birds", "nature", "poetry", "shore", "woods" ]
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
Mark Twain
[ "humor", "men", "women" ]
“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
Suzanne Collins,
[ "the-hunger-games" ]
“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
John Green,
[ "francois-rabelais", "last-words" ]
“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
Elizabeth Gilbert,
[ "wish" ]
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
Sylvia Plath,
[ "ecstasy", "happiness", "nature" ]
“Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now.""That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "clary-fray", "jace-wayland" ]
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Gabriel García Márquez,
[ "existence", "truth" ]
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
Louis L'Amour
[ "inspirational", "writing" ]
“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
Tahereh Mafi,
[ "compassion", "empathy", "loneliness", "love" ]
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
Thich Nhat Hanh,
[ "buddhism", "gratitude", "joy", "mindfulness", "zen" ]
“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.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
[ "love" ]
“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "gratitude", "heart", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-attitude", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "life", "life-and-living", "life-lessons", "life-quotes", "living", "motivation", "motivational", "optimism", "optimistic", "posit...
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell,
[ "happiness", "love" ]
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and fora...
Carl Sagan,
[ "earth", "perspective", "space" ]
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
Agatha Christie,
[ "love" ]
“أجمل حب هو الذي نعثر عليه أثناء بحثنا عن شيء آخر”
أحلام مستغانمي
[ "love", "حب" ]
“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
James Patterson,
[ "humor" ]
“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "excuse", "improvement", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-attitude", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-quote", "inspirational-quotes", "inspire", "inspiring", "life", "life-and-living", "life-lessons", "life-philosophy", "life-quotes", "living", "optimism", "optimi...
“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
Sarah J. Maas,
[ "reading", "survival" ]
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
Mitch Albom,
[ "profound" ]
“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.”
John F. Kennedy
[ "chinese", "crisis", "danger", "inspirational", "opportunity" ]
“Don't Panic.”
Douglas Adams,
[ "h2g2", "hitchhiker-s-guide", "humor", "panic" ]
“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...
Herman Hesse,
[ "eternity", "fear", "forests", "history", "holiness", "home", "life", "longing", "poet", "roots", "self-discovery", "spirituality", "strength", "trees", "trust" ]
“Live to the point of tears.”
Albert Camus
[ "life", "living" ]
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
Lemony Snicket,
[ "libraries", "reading" ]
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
Donald Miller,
[ "expectations", "people", "perfection", "relationships" ]
“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
Cornelia Funke,
[ "inspirational" ]
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
Jonathan Safran Foer,
[ "future", "inspirational", "life" ]
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.”
William Blake,
[ "inspirational", "wonder" ]
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
[ "hippy", "love", "misattributed", "peace", "william-gladstone" ]
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
Paulo Coelho,
[ "confidence", "honesty" ]
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
Philip Pullman
[ "books", "needs", "stories", "storytelling", "writing" ]
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
Charles Bukowski
[ "love" ]
“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "will-herondale" ]
“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "city-of-bones", "humor", "jace-wayland" ]
“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”
Gordon B. Hinckley
[ "life" ]
“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.”
Jane Austen,
[ "courage", "dignity", "elizabeth-bennet", "empowerment", "fear", "independence", "intimidation", "self-determination", "strength", "stubbornness", "women" ]
“Let everything happen to youBeauty and terrorJust keep goingNo feeling is final”
Rainer Maria Rilke
[ "enjoy-life", "fearlessness", "live-in-the-moment" ]
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
Herman Hesse
[ "steppenwolf" ]
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
[ "caring", "inspirational", "love", "roses", "time" ]
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Italo Calvino,
[ "books", "classics", "literature", "meaning", "reading", "words" ]
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
Madeleine L'Engle
[ "books", "fire", "star", "universe" ]
“Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –""Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet.""Great idea though, thanks, Mum.”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "fred-weasley", "george-weasley", "humor", "molly-weasley", "toilet" ]
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
François Rabelais
[ "death", "french-renaissance-writer", "john-green", "last-words", "life", "looking-for-alaska", "meaning-of-life", "miles-halter" ]
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
Jane Austen,
[ "men", "mountains", "rocks" ]
“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
Lauren Oliver,
[ "contrast", "happiness", "unhappiness" ]
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
[ "enemies", "friends", "friendship", "hatred", "intelligence", "knowledge", "love", "wisdom" ]
“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
Katharine Hepburn
[ "katharine-hepburn" ]
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Marcus Aurelius,
[ "appreciation", "awe", "beauty", "life", "optimism", "positivity", "sense-of-wonder", "stars" ]
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
Jorge Luis Borges
[ "life" ]
“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.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "clockwork-prince", "will-herondale" ]
“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "tessa-gray", "theresa-gray" ]
“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.”
Cassandra Clare,
[ "city-of-ashes", "humor", "mortal-instruments", "simon", "vampire" ]
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau
[ "writing" ]
“You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!”
Dr. Seuss,
[ "inspirational" ]
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
Winston S. Churchill
[ "history", "humor", "writing" ]
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
Mahatma Gandhi
[ "hate", "love", "religion", "sin", "sinners" ]
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
Charlotte Brontë,
[ "ataraxy", "defiance", "empowerment", "independence", "individuality", "self-assurance", "self-awareness", "self-containment", "self-determination", "self-esteem", "self-reliance", "self-respect", "self-sufficiency", "self-trust", "solitude" ]
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
Voltaire
[ "answers", "man", "questions", "thinking" ]
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
Neil Gaiman,
[ "books" ]
“Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”
J.K. Rowling,
[ "humor" ]
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde,
[ "emotions", "mercy" ]
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
Victor Hugo ,
[ "love", "soul", "stars" ]
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where...
Stephen King,
[ "birds", "freedom", "friends", "friendship", "letting-go" ]
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
Khaled Hosseini,
[ "earnestness", "gullibility", "honesty" ]
“You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places....
Cassandra Clare,
[ "imposters" ]
“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
Roy T. Bennett,
[ "giving", "goals", "goals-in-life", "inspiration", "inspirational", "inspirational-quotes", "learn", "learning", "life", "life-quotes", "light", "light-and-darkness", "living-life", "meaning", "meaning-of-life", "meaningful", "meaningful-life", "wisdom", "wise" ]
“Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRemem...
Pablo Neruda,
[ "forgetting", "heartbreak", "inspirational", "living", "love", "moving-on" ]
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Mark Twain
[ "happiness", "sanity" ]
“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg ...
C. JoyBell C.
[ "growing", "humanity", "inspirational", "inspirational-life", "inspirational-love", "inspirational-quotes", "learning", "life-and-living", "life-lessons", "love", "people", "real-love", "reality", "reality-of-life", "those-who-love-us", "to-be-loved", "true-love", "what-matters" ]
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
Gregory Maguire,
[ "evil", "good" ]