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I believe a successful day consists of not only thinking about changes you have to make to improve your life, but also of taking action to begin making those changes.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:22 pm.
Daydreaming is part of future planning.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
KFree_Reads, on February 8, 2018, at 9:26 pm.
If you’re sitting in the back, it’s time to make a move. The show is still going on. It’s a great show. It’s your show! Step up front; step into your power; stop watching life as a distant spectator. Nothing’s holding you back except you.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:25 pm.
Look where you want to go in life, not at where you don’t want to go.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:19 pm.
He couldn't remember when he fell in love with the pain.
Source: Raven's Peak
Author: Lincoln Cole
Submitted by
Lincoln, on January 22, 2018, at 12:37 pm.
You can live a life of hesitation, or you can live a life of inspiration. A life of inspiration requires believing in yourself today more than yesterday. Supporting this belief requires taking on more—the more you dare to do, the more you can do.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:18 pm.
Like the river transforms the land, the bond of friendship can transform your life. Trusting the currents, navigating the terrain, and figuring out how to read the water are all skills that take patience, time, and love.
Source: The Reel Sisters
Author: Michelle Cummings
Submitted by
michmc3, on January 30, 2018, at 5:25 pm.
Feeling upset sometimes may be unavoidable, but acting distressed is always optional.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:20 pm.
I don’t much care for the idea of being dead. It makes me nervous. I’m allergic to dying; I break out in screaming.
Source: Nightlord: Sunset
Author: Garon Whited
Submitted by
GaronWhited, on January 22, 2018, at 10:09 pm.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Source: A Miscellany
Author: E. E. Cummings
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:16 pm.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Source: A Farewell to Arms
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Submitted by
Amy ab, on February 21, 2018, at 12:54 pm.
Evil is selfishness to the point of destruction.
Source: The Diary Of An Immortal (1945-1959)
Author: David J Castello
Submitted by
David J Castello, on January 15, 2018, at 4:22 pm.
Sometimes I forget how good a memory I have.
Source: Final Notice
Author: Van Fleisher
Submitted by
Van F, on January 18, 2018, at 6:09 pm.
If it is to be, it is up to me.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:17 pm.
The greatest reward is inner applause.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:20 pm.
When I tripped, I would get back up, fix the trip hazard, and keep on running.
Source: Burn Zones
Author: Jorge P. Newbery
Submitted by
Jorge P Newbery, on January 22, 2018, at 7:48 am.
Never let greed make decisions for you.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
KFree_Reads, on February 8, 2018, at 9:24 pm.
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.
Source: The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Author: Hazel Felleman
Submitted by
adillon6, on May 6, 2018, at 3:18 pm.
"To change a country, we need the support of everyone, sharing in the mission, rich or poor."
Source: Burn Zones
Author: Jorge P. Newbery
Submitted by
Jorge P Newbery, on January 22, 2018, at 7:38 am.
How you love yourself, is how you teach others to love you.
Source: Milk and Honey
Author: Rupi Kaur
Submitted by
Sophie12, on February 16, 2018, at 12:35 am.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
Source: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
Submitted by
Mukti1, on February 16, 2018, at 10:31 am.
Nothing stays the same
Source: My Trip to Adele
Author: A.I.Alyaseer, R.I.Alyaseer
Submitted by
aialyaseer, on January 15, 2018, at 7:33 pm.
Those who feel grateful, and are eternally generous, experience life at its richest.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:23 pm.
If you ever see a person trying to drown his sorrows kindly inform him that his sorrows know how to swim.
Source: the power of six
Author: Pittacus Lore
Submitted by
Mukti1, on February 16, 2018, at 10:28 am.
She generally gave herself good advice though she very seldom followed it.
Source: Alice in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carrol
Submitted by
britburkett87, on April 22, 2018, at 2:31 am.
“How can people make decisions when facts are withheld? How is a kid born into poverty without parents supposed to be able to make the same decisions as a kid born into wealth with a silver spoon in his mouth?”
Source: Raven's Peak
Author: Lincoln Cole
Submitted by
Lincoln, on January 22, 2018, at 12:39 pm.
Philippa displayed three wonderful character qualities that I now work to make part of my personality: cheerfulness in the face of rudeness, tolerance in the face of discourtesy, and forgiveness in the face of intrusiveness.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:22 pm.
If I look beyond what I insist is true—I often find something new.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:22 pm.
Sometimes how we believe others think of us is actually how we think of ourselves.
Source: Asymptote
Author: L. Anthony Skelton
Submitted by
heliz_t, on February 23, 2018, at 5:49 pm.
If we want a joyous life, we must think joyous thoughts. If we want a prosperous life, we must think prosperous thoughts. If we want a loving life, we must think loving thoughts.
Source: You Can Heal Your Life
Author: Louise L. Hay
Submitted by
LV2R, on April 29, 2018, at 5:07 am.
...if we’re to do something strikingly new, we must be willing to think something strikingly new about ourselves.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
KFree_Reads, on February 8, 2018, at 9:20 pm.
“I know that life isn’t life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point-the only point-is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
Author: Sarah Dessen
Submitted by
Book_Lover85, on April 2, 2018, at 11:29 am.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J.K. Rowling
Submitted by
Nivriti16, on July 5, 2018, at 2:16 am.
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where you go..."
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Author: Dr. Seuss
Submitted by
TerraKern, on October 3, 2018, at 1:17 pm.
With a conviction to go beyond oneself, personal power is without limit.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:24 pm.
Walking my talk and living my life according to what is important and true
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Emmanuel Michael, on February 9, 2018, at 2:56 am.
You don't realize what you have isn't love until you find someone else and have something to compare with
Source: My Ladybird Story
Author: Magus Tor
Submitted by
Emiko07, on February 14, 2018, at 9:29 am.
If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star - you'll still get beaten by the people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Source: The wee free men
Author: Terry Pratchett
Submitted by
emminorris0586, on March 20, 2018, at 11:30 am.
I find that when we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works.
Source: You Can Heal Your Life
Author: Louise L. Hay
Submitted by
LV2R, on April 29, 2018, at 5:03 am.
"The harder you try to live up to people's expectation, the more mess you seem to make."
Source: Can I be Frank
Author: rob wyatt
Submitted by
Nerea, on May 29, 2018, at 8:53 am.
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good ook at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." - Sirius Black
Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling
Submitted by
book-keeper6, on June 24, 2018, at 11:40 am.
I’d convinced myself that bigger homes, fancier cars, and luxury cruises to exotic ports would give me inner satisfaction. To the contrary, these acquisitions and junkets only intensified the feeling that something was missing.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on January 13, 2018, at 4:42 pm.
I hadn't known then whether fate really played such an influential role in people's lives or whether it was merely a scapegoat we used to blame for our failures
Source: My Trip to Adele
Author: A.I.Alyaseer, R.I.Alyaseer
Submitted by
aialyaseer, on January 15, 2018, at 7:29 pm.
Some things remain broken no matter how much of an optimist you are
Source: My Trip to Adele
Author: A.I.Alyaseer, R.I.Alyaseer
Submitted by
aialyaseer, on January 15, 2018, at 7:31 pm.
Once your stop ordinary thoughts from reigning in your mind, extraordinary thinking can begin.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Scott, on February 1, 2018, at 3:01 pm.
Shame is like walking around with a new sweater with an ugly stain on the front. As long as you keep your arms in front of it, nobody will notice it. People comment how sharp it is. You want to let your arms down, but you can’t let them know.
Source: Nobody Knows
Author: Larry Schneiderman
Submitted by
Bookmaniac, on March 30, 2018, at 11:27 pm.
Careful what you wish for Tom, because you just might get it.
Source: The Abduction Chronicles
Author: Thomas L. Hay
Submitted by
thomaslhay, on April 4, 2018, at 12:46 pm.
Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes its time, and gets to know everyone personally. - T-shirt
Source: Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
Author: Darynda Jones
Submitted by
Imarru, on April 10, 2018, at 10:53 pm.
But I still needed to let her know that we always have the choice of taking on one of two roles: the helpless victim who says, “poor me,” or the person who takes responsibility.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:17 am.
“We Accept The Love We Think We Deserve”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Author: Stephen chbosky
Submitted by
samcadd13, on July 6, 2018, at 11:13 am.
No one is free of pain, but when you can still face the world with a smile, you've mastered the key to happiness.
Source: My Dad, My Dog
Author: Sheila Hermel
Submitted by
mydadmydog2016, on August 19, 2018, at 3:31 am.
“I prefer to have one hundred francs a month and the freedom to spend it just as i like than to have two hundred francs without this freedom.” - VINCENT VAN GOGH
Source: Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890
Author: Ingo F. Walther
Submitted by
Paul Mugisha, on September 19, 2018, at 12:13 pm.
That’s why we introduced the NRA Armed Seniors Discount Program. If more old timers packed heat, it might make thugs think twice before bullying them.
Source: Final Notice
Author: Van Fleisher
Submitted by
Van F, on January 18, 2018, at 6:07 pm.
we all have souls of different ages
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Submitted by
Jasmyne Johnson, on November 3, 2018, at 1:15 am.
"When I raced bicycles, I looked at races as having 'burn zones', which were relatively short periods of extraordinary effort that separated the winners and losers."
Source: Burn Zones
Author: Jorge P. Newbery
Submitted by
Jorge P Newbery, on January 22, 2018, at 7:43 am.
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
Source: unravel me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Submitted by
sri varshini303041, on November 12, 2018, at 8:55 am.
The world moves at a geological pace, no pun intended. That is, there’s lots of standing still, doing nothing much, and then the occasional short, sharp yank. Once in a while, there’s a huge kaboom, and nothing is quite the same afterward.
Source: Nightlord: Sunset
Author: Garon Whited
Submitted by
GaronWhited, on January 22, 2018, at 10:06 pm.
In vain i have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Submitted by
Kaitlyn564, on February 14, 2018, at 2:12 am.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
Source: The Hobbit
Author: J R R Tolkien
Submitted by
cristinaro, on February 15, 2018, at 7:12 am.
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
Source: The Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Williams
Submitted by
R-Myra, on February 23, 2018, at 2:26 pm.
Some rise by sin and some in their virtue fail.
Source: Measure for Measure
Author: William Shakespeare
Submitted by
Chuks Daniel, on March 7, 2018, at 1:58 am.
The worst thing that good could do to evil was ignore it....
Source: The Chronicles of the Virago
Author: Michael Bialys
Submitted by
bialys, on April 1, 2018, at 8:40 pm.
“And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty separate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.”
Source: White Oleander
Author: Janet Fitch
Submitted by
Book_Lover85, on April 2, 2018, at 11:27 am.
"There's only one way to learn... it is through action everything you need to know you have learned through your journey."
Source: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
Submitted by
Yahmina, on April 7, 2018, at 5:32 pm.
Doing nothing is hard. You never know when you’re done. -T-shirt
Source: Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
Author: Darynda Jones
Submitted by
Imarru, on April 10, 2018, at 10:54 pm.
It's not what I feel for you, it's what I don't feel for anyone but you.
Source: I Was Never Yours Mr CEO
Author: Madhumitha Lakshmanan
Submitted by
Shruti Banik, on May 20, 2018, at 1:03 pm.
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Source: Toni the Superhero
Author: R.D. Base
Submitted by
ronettea, on July 3, 2018, at 1:32 pm.
There you go thinking again.
Source: The Abduction Chronicles
Author: Thomas L. Hay
Submitted by
thomaslhay, on July 7, 2018, at 2:09 pm.
In her efforts to avoid bad taste, Melissa had ended up with no taste at all.
Source: Living dangerously
Author: Katie Fforde
Submitted by
Ruba Abu Ali, on July 16, 2018, at 3:19 pm.
I learned the hard way that life doesn’t always turn out the way you’d want. The important thing is to keep trying to make it go your way.
Source: Girl Desecrated
Author: Cheryl R. Cowtan
Submitted by
CherylRCowtan, on July 17, 2018, at 10:35 am.
Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels-the levels of purpose, motivation, interest, dreams, and personality.
Source: Waiting and Dating
Author: Myles Munroe
Submitted by
godwin675, on July 19, 2018, at 2:27 pm.
Success comes to those who become success concious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure concious.
Source: Think and grow rich
Author: Napoleon Hill
Submitted by
Ubah199, on July 25, 2018, at 8:22 pm.
The most important thing in life does not depend on how rich you are. It depends most on your smile. Wear it with you. Joseph Van
Source: Camping Trip
Author: Joseph And Chevon
Submitted by
Joseph Van, on July 29, 2018, at 11:44 pm.
“But i have to keep on going my own way. If i don’t do anything, if i don’t study, if i don’t search - then i am lost. Then God help me!” - VINCENT VAN GOGH
Source: Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890
Author: Ingo F. Walther
Submitted by
Paul Mugisha, on September 19, 2018, at 11:54 am.
Was it my preordained fate or my own choice?
Source: My Trip to Adele
Author: A.I.Alyaseer, R.I.Alyaseer
Submitted by
aialyaseer, on January 15, 2018, at 7:34 pm.
I hold stories. As girl I was trained as girls have been trained forever.This story is short. This is the story from the time before there were people as we are people. The first story, this tells how we became people.
Source: Strong Heart
Author: Charlie Sheldon
Submitted by
Charlie Sheldon, on January 16, 2018, at 11:49 am.
People say you can't ever go back. That some of the things that happen to us simply cannot be redone. But the paths of a life journey are rarely straight. They twist and turn wind back across those once visited and long thought to have faded.
Source: And Then You Loved Me
Author: Inglath Cooper
Submitted by
Lydia Stewart, on November 1, 2018, at 11:24 am.
“Stay relaxed,” I counseled myself when I entered a burn zone. “Others around you are hurting just as much as you. Focus on enduring the pain until the pace slows. The effort will get easier soon.’
Source: Burn Zones
Author: Jorge P. Newbery
Submitted by
Jorge P Newbery, on January 22, 2018, at 7:43 am.
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.
Source: Ignite Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Submitted by
sri varshini303041, on November 12, 2018, at 8:51 am.
In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.
Source: Ignite Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Submitted by
sri varshini303041, on November 12, 2018, at 8:52 am.
The truth, he says, is a painful reminder of why I prefer to live among the lies.
Source: unravel me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Submitted by
sri varshini303041, on November 12, 2018, at 8:57 am.
“What kind of God would allow a sixteen-year-old girl to die from cancer? No, I’m sorry mom. Dad can keep his faith. He can shove the entire religion up his—”
Source: Raven's Peak
Author: Lincoln Cole
Submitted by
Lincoln, on January 22, 2018, at 12:39 pm.
There comes a day in every mans life when he stops looking forward and starts to look back.” -Maxwell Hill
Source: The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Author: Robert Dugoni
Submitted by
Grantham8589, on November 18, 2018, at 7:38 am.
Modern-day fly fishing is generally catch and release. There are definitely some lessons in the catching, but more important are the lessons in learning how to release.
Source: The Reel Sisters
Author: Michelle Cummings
Submitted by
michmc3, on January 30, 2018, at 5:28 pm.
We hold the friendships not only of the ones who are still with us but also of the ones who are already downstream. Life changes like water in motion.
Source: The Reel Sisters
Author: Michelle Cummings
Submitted by
michmc3, on January 31, 2018, at 11:43 am.
The more I reflect on the day, the more I realize the river has its own rhythm, nature’s symphony that I get to learn how to conduct. ~Melody
Source: The Reel Sisters
Author: Michelle Cummings
Submitted by
michmc3, on January 31, 2018, at 11:50 am.
I wanted people to like me for me, judge me for me, and see me for me, not for whom my family was.
Source: Drawn to You
Author: Brooke Page
Submitted by
Keneenm14, on February 8, 2018, at 5:19 pm.
Freedom, like everything is relative.
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Submitted by
KFree_Reads, on February 8, 2018, at 9:15 pm.
You think everything can be bought? You are one of those who believe everything can be bought, you'd buy God.
Source: Andalusian in Jerusalem
Author: Mois benarroch
Submitted by
Ida123, on February 26, 2018, at 3:45 pm.
“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
Source: Sula
Author: Toni Morrison
Submitted by
Carissa Myung, on February 27, 2018, at 4:18 pm.
Effective leaders ought to always keep an open mind willing to make changes if necessary.
Source: Effective Leaders and Leadership
Author: Mildred Stallworth
Submitted by
Pnh_06, on March 27, 2018, at 12:07 am.
"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of change to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true as long as we keep believing"
Source: little women
Author: Lousia May Alcott
Submitted by
MCD14, on April 4, 2018, at 2:54 pm.
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Source: Stranger In A Strange Land
Author: Robert A Heinlein
Submitted by
Katgurl7, on April 27, 2018, at 4:53 am.
..."Human beings are a much worse poison than schnapps or tobacco, darling." I laughed. "You are a clever child, Pat."
Source: Three Comrades
Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Submitted by
Jonida, on April 27, 2018, at 7:09 pm.
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
Source: A Grief Observed
Author: C. S. Lewis
Submitted by
Britty01, on April 30, 2018, at 12:23 pm.
It's a metaphor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
Submitted by
AColourfulLie, on May 1, 2018, at 1:12 pm.
I would lose the courage if I waited until morning.
Source: We Are Okay
Author: Nina LaCour
Submitted by
BoopityBoop, on May 17, 2018, at 10:16 pm.
Once you stop ordinary thoughts from reigning in your mind, extraordinary thinking can begin.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
togormey, on May 27, 2018, at 1:35 pm.
Stop Complaining about what you don't have and start focusing on what you do have.
Source: If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your But's
Author: Mark L. Wdowiak
Submitted by
Alice in Wonderland, on June 7, 2018, at 12:28 am.
When bags of money fall into the lot of an aspiring genius God departs and devil walks in.
Source: The Sorrows of Satan or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire
Author: Marie Corelli
Submitted by
Chambers01, on June 16, 2018, at 7:28 am.
A man does not make a fortune, he takes a fortune ~Jason Brent from DarkPool
Source: Darkpool
Author: John Leet
Submitted by
Moonlight91, on June 19, 2018, at 3:26 am.
Your nemesis will not wait for you to be well rested and preened. He will strike when it is convenient for him, not you
Source: The Elf Coup - Book Three of the Magi Charter
Author: Jordan David
Submitted by
Nmesoma, on June 19, 2018, at 3:07 pm.
It was in that moment that I realized: everyone doesn’t live in a universe in which everything orbits around me.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:16 am.
For where all love is,the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough.
Source: Outlander
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Submitted by
MonicaMcd, on June 26, 2018, at 7:50 am.
"Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse."
Source: Water for Elephants
Author: Sara Gruen
Submitted by
LarissaRunamuck, on July 12, 2018, at 6:04 pm.
I am an optimist about our species. I assume God is, too, for otherwise He would have scrubbed us off the planet a long time ago and would have started over
Source: Odd Thomas
Author: Dean Koontz
Submitted by
ea_anthony, on July 16, 2018, at 5:00 pm.
There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
Source: The two towers
Author: J R R Tolkien
Submitted by
John-Patrick Isiaka, on August 26, 2018, at 4:19 pm.
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
Source: Gatsby
Author: Fitzgerald
Submitted by
DepthofMind_, on September 17, 2018, at 9:24 pm.
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” - VINCENT VAN GOGH
Source: Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890
Author: Ingo F. Walther
Submitted by
Paul Mugisha, on September 19, 2018, at 11:57 am.
“Among this confusion i was dismayed by a meal poor people had in a weird hut under a dim lamp. He called it ‘The Potato Eaters’. It was ugly in a splendid way and loaded with an alarming activity.” - ÉMILE BERNARD
Source: Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890
Author: Ingo F. Walther
Submitted by
Paul Mugisha, on September 19, 2018, at 12:06 pm.
Sometimes, you know you've made the right decision, simply because of how hard it is.
Source: Learning To Swim
Author: Sara J. Henry
Submitted by
SammiArch, on October 3, 2018, at 11:35 am.
Vegas is the city of pleasure, not sin; and sin is nothing but pleasure!
Source: My Trip to Adele
Author: A.I.Alyaseer, R.I.Alyaseer
Submitted by
aialyaseer, on January 15, 2018, at 7:25 pm.
My ferocious love, and how it repeatedly is trapped inside my fear of being sentimental; my need to control even the kindness of the world, rejecting gifts for which I am not prepared;
Source: Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear Of God
Author: Tony Hoagland
Submitted by
CasualBookReader, on October 3, 2018, at 2:42 pm.
We don't always have a justification for the goodbyes we say
Source: My Trip to Adele
Author: A.I.Alyaseer, R.I.Alyaseer
Submitted by
aialyaseer, on January 15, 2018, at 7:30 pm.
One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world-your little carved out sphere-is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.
Source: Delirium
Author: Lauren Oliver
Submitted by
Lydia Stewart, on October 23, 2018, at 9:46 am.
The thing I realize is that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
Source: All the Bright Places
Author: Jennifer Niven
Submitted by
Lydia Stewart, on October 23, 2018, at 9:54 am.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
Source: All the Bright Places
Author: Jennifer Niven
Submitted by
Lydia Stewart, on October 23, 2018, at 9:58 am.
Tom was nodding. "It's like two different religions. The jobs at any price sect, and the go-back-to-the-past sect. They're both jihads, actually." "It's ideology-driven zealotry, Tom. Zealotry is the eighth deadly sin, if you ask me."
Source: Strong Heart
Author: Charlie Sheldon
Submitted by
Charlie Sheldon, on January 16, 2018, at 11:43 am.
At night, when the lights are out, when the house is asleep, when I am sure that not a living soul can see in my face that I am thinking of you. That is when I think of you. Remember you. Let myself long for you.
Source: And Then You Loved Me
Author: Inglath Cooper
Submitted by
Lydia Stewart, on November 1, 2018, at 4:04 pm.
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
Source: The Bell Jar
Author: Sylvia Plath
Submitted by
miranda_s, on November 11, 2018, at 1:20 pm.
Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomorrow and two days from now I will be just fine and I'm so delirious I actually dare to believe it.
Source: Shatter Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Submitted by
sri varshini303041, on November 12, 2018, at 8:45 am.
Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion. Sometimes it just won't let go.
Source: unravel me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Submitted by
sri varshini303041, on November 12, 2018, at 8:55 am.
It’s hard to describe the feeling I get when I catch a fish on a fly that I tied myself. A sense of pride and astonishment all at the same time, that I could trick something wild to believe my fly is the real thing.
Source: The Reel Sisters
Author: Michelle Cummings
Submitted by
michmc3, on January 30, 2018, at 5:45 pm.
You mean the two of you are like, together? What's he do, nibble your bum?
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 24, 2018, at 12:24 am.
Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that's always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there's always someone who's freezing. -Beartown
Source: Beartown
Author: Fredrik Backman and Neil Smith
Submitted by
emu89, on December 1, 2018, at 7:29 am.
You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery; it’s like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them.
Source: Dead ICe
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Submitted by
Callalilly6, on December 2, 2018, at 5:58 pm.
Begin with the end in mind.
Source: The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
Author: Stephen R.Covey
Submitted by
Dracher, 3 days ago.
She hestitated, and suddenly there swept across her face a strange expression, old as the hills, yet with something eternally young about it. So might some Egyptian sphinx have smiled.
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Author: Agatha Christie
Submitted by
Jessthomp1994, on March 6, 2018, at 1:55 am.
Pleasant words to hurting men are sweet to their soul because they don't hear them often. They sound like a foreign language. That's why we gravitate toward words to build and support the myth of masculinity.
Source: False Roads to Manhood, What Women Need to Know: What Men Need to Understand
Author: Frank Chase Jr
Submitted by
Drchasejr, on March 11, 2018, at 6:58 pm.
Children should be seen and not heard!
Source: Auntie Bertie and the flying circus mouse,
Author: Esther Loftus Gough
Submitted by
Esthersuz, on March 24, 2018, at 2:53 am.
“Only a peace between equals can last.”
Source: Kennedy's Revenge
Author: Stephen L Rodenbeck
Submitted by
Book_Lover85, on April 2, 2018, at 11:25 am.
Your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
Author: John Green
Submitted by
Varsha16, on April 17, 2018, at 2:06 am.
You either get busy living or get busy dying
Source: The Shawshank Redemption
Author: Stephen King
Submitted by
SStaley05, on April 21, 2018, at 6:54 pm.
Quite curious- this image they have of individual success- when the world they leave behind on the day they expire is no better off for their having lived.
Source: Heaven and Earth
Author: Arturo Riojas
Submitted by
thaservices1, on April 23, 2018, at 8:04 am.
The world os not a wish granting factory.
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
Submitted by
AColourfulLie, on May 1, 2018, at 1:14 pm.
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
Submitted by
Lex_8, on May 26, 2018, at 12:44 am.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
Source: Ficciones
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Submitted by
Chrissyzhairen26, on May 27, 2018, at 1:56 am.
I have given suck and know How tender' tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed that brain out, had I so sworn As you have done to this.
Source: Macbeth
Author: Shakespeare
Submitted by
Sabinakh94, on May 27, 2018, at 9:54 am.
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.
Source: Outliers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Submitted by
mahmoodakash91, on June 5, 2018, at 3:59 pm.
The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around.
Source: Strange the Dreamer
Author: Laini Taylor
Submitted by
BookishCoffeeBlog, on June 7, 2018, at 4:08 am.
The journey through grief is as unique as our fingerprints.
Source: Rethinking Possible
Author: Rebecca Faye Smith Galli
Submitted by
Rfsgalli, on June 9, 2018, at 9:10 am.
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
Submitted by
Varsha saini, on June 13, 2018, at 2:18 am.
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
Source: Cloud Atlas
Author: David Mitchell
Submitted by
shelbywrites, on June 15, 2018, at 9:00 am.
If it's important to you, then it's important to me!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:20 am.
I chose not to focus on what I can't do, but instead, I focus upon what I can do.
Source: Decide Success
Author: John Baumann
Submitted by
Kayeh0426, on June 19, 2018, at 12:12 am.
You should never stick your head in the sand....
Source: Decide Success
Author: John Baumann
Submitted by
Kayeh0426, on June 19, 2018, at 12:13 am.
“If you can’t beat ’em, cheat ’em,” he whispered.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:06 am.
Didn’t I deserve some special dispensation for being the kid from the wrong place?
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:08 am.
“Let me put it this way . . .” had a new sidekick: “I have a little trick I like to call, ‘PAY ATTENTION.’ I’ve never met anyone who succeeded in life and didn’t pay attention.” Mr. Lampkin’s final words stuck with me long after
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:12 am.
But, eventually you must become your own instructor if you plan to win.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:12 am.
Then a woman stood up. And then, spontaneously, everyone jumped up and applauded. This was my standing ovation! The entire audience clapped and cheered. A tremendous truth was revealed that day: nothing is better than being authentic.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:14 am.
I have experienced many times since then that I don’t always have to prove I’m right to win at the game of life.
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:14 am.
“I went to the doctor and told him, ‘You know what? I’m going to take that medicine, and I’m going to eat what you want me to eat. I’m going to start exercising. You know why, Doc? I’ve decided not to die.’”
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:19 am.
Most of us think of someone else when we learn a life lesson or come to a new understanding about how to win at life. If we’re not asking, “What’s this got to do with my growth and development?”
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
Samuel Waragu, on June 22, 2018, at 3:20 am.
Nothing existed in this moment except for the voice. It was intoxicating and refreshing, rapturous and otherworldly.
Source: Mystic Tides
Author: C.J.Godwin
Submitted by
CJ_Godwin, on June 23, 2018, at 10:44 am.
“When the day shall come, that we do part …if my last words are not ‘I love you’ – ye’ll ken it was because I didna have time.”---Jamie in Fiery Cross, Chapter 111
Source: Fiery Cross
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Submitted by
MonicaMcd, on June 27, 2018, at 7:04 am.
your soul stained my shoulders. my whole life smells like you. this will take time. undoing you from my blood
Source: Salt
Author: Nayyirah Waheed
Submitted by
Wiccanbat666, on July 2, 2018, at 3:06 am.
I have a dream that one day we(Negros) will be free in our home land America I also have a dream that one day the black boys and black girls join hands with white boys and white girls and walk together and we alla are created equally by God Almighty
Source: I Have a Dream
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. and James Washington and Coretta Scott King
Submitted by
Abdul rafey, on July 4, 2018, at 3:41 am.
"And,When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it"
Source: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
Submitted by
Nisha_langthasa, on July 5, 2018, at 9:12 am.
The older I get,the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.
Source: Pretty Girls
Author: Karin Slaughter
Submitted by
Ruba Abu Ali, on July 16, 2018, at 3:21 pm.
Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.
Source: Pretty Girls
Author: Karin Slaughter
Submitted by
Ruba Abu Ali, on July 16, 2018, at 3:22 pm.
Disorder and confusion are unpleasant. No creature likes them.
Source: Mythic worlds and the ones you can believe in
Author: Harold Toliver
Submitted by
ea_anthony, on July 16, 2018, at 5:22 pm.
"Fine words butter no parsnips."
Source: Can I be Frank
Author: rob wyatt
Submitted by
Nerea, on July 19, 2018, at 5:49 am.
“There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics and fearmongers than those of us who are willing to fall because we have learned how to rise.”
Source: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
Submitted by
Mohith V, on July 19, 2018, at 9:50 am.
Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.
Source: Waiting and Dating
Author: Myles Munroe
Submitted by
godwin675, on July 19, 2018, at 2:21 pm.
Habits and attitudes established during the dating years generally carry over into marriage.
Source: Waiting and Dating
Author: Myles Munroe
Submitted by
godwin675, on July 19, 2018, at 2:24 pm.
A mind needs a book like a sword need a whet stone.
Source: A song of Ice and fire
Author: George R.R. Martin
Submitted by
Prince Avinash, on July 22, 2018, at 6:09 am.
A cloudy sky does not always cry rain.
Source: Betrayal in the city
Author: Francis imbuga
Submitted by
PhylesTemea, on August 3, 2018, at 5:53 am.
She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
Source: Eleanor and Park
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Submitted by
CatlynnHighlights, on August 3, 2018, at 5:24 pm.
"I can't act. I can't pretend. I do not have these skills. I am better off where I am. The darkness accepts me where I am. The rock requires no pretense from me."
Source: Herai
Author: Aaron D Key
Submitted by
Kareka88, on August 19, 2018, at 5:01 pm.
"You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air."
Source: Peter Pan
Author: JM Barrie
Submitted by
Shelby247, on August 26, 2018, at 5:54 pm.
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Source: On writing a memoir of the craft
Author: Stephen King
Submitted by
sszb, on August 31, 2018, at 5:13 am.
Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J.K. Rowling
Submitted by
Ashs2405, on September 6, 2018, at 12:38 am.
"Whatever happens is a reflection of the energy that I am projecting."
Source: The Unbound Soul
Author: Richard L. Haight
Submitted by
ShareTheGift, on September 9, 2018, at 1:06 am.
“‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.’ Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
Submitted by
MasyL, on September 11, 2018, at 5:56 am.
Until you see it, you cannot possess it
Source: Pastoring is not what you think
Author: Elijah Oladimeji
Submitted by
ultraboss, on September 13, 2018, at 10:39 am.
I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then
Source: Alice in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Submitted by
Bbartley1, on October 1, 2018, at 3:13 pm.
So I’m all of the love that could make it today
Source: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Author: Shel Silverstein
Submitted by
Bbartley1, on October 1, 2018, at 3:17 pm.
"As long as we're together"
Source: The Mark of Athena
Author: Rick Riordan
Submitted by
roseka, on October 2, 2018, at 6:06 pm.
This is the story of a wise man named Milo. It begins on the day he was eaten by a shark.
Source: Reincarnation Blues
Author: Michael Poore
Submitted by
Bookdrag0n, on October 8, 2018, at 7:53 pm.
Each day means a new twenty four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.
Source: Legend
Author: Marie Lu
Submitted by
teevic_o, on October 10, 2018, at 3:36 pm.
Freedom is the crown of the liberated
Source: My Trip to Adele
Author: A.I.Alyaseer, R.I.Alyaseer
Submitted by
aialyaseer, on January 15, 2018, at 7:32 pm.
It's the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you. You know that you've found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it.
Source: The Elite
Author: Kiera Cass
Submitted by
Lydia Stewart, on October 23, 2018, at 9:47 am.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Source: All the Bright Places
Author: Jennifer Niven
Submitted by
Lydia Stewart, on October 23, 2018, at 9:53 am.
We don't always have a choice when it comes to being who we want to be
Source: My Trip to Adele
Author: A.I.Alyaseer, R.I.Alyaseer
Submitted by
aialyaseer, on January 15, 2018, at 7:34 pm.
What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so
Source: All the Bright Places
Author: Jennifer Niven
Submitted by
Lydia Stewart, on October 23, 2018, at 9:57 am.
The wind shook the house, roaring like a great animal.
Source: Strong Heart
Author: Charlie Sheldon
Submitted by
Charlie Sheldon, on January 16, 2018, at 11:37 am.
“I went to prison for my hacking. Now people hire me to do the same things I went to prison for, but in a legal and beneficial way.” ― Kevin D. Mitnick, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Source: ghost in wires
Author: kelvin
Submitted by
Abumchukwu, on October 28, 2018, at 11:17 pm.
A magical story of a little girl just at the right age to attend her First Day At School. Leaving the security of her home and venturing into the wonderful world of learning and making new friends,releasing the fear of being able to go to school.
Source: My first day at school
Author: Cindy B.Sinanan
Submitted by
cindy21, on November 2, 2018, at 8:42 pm.
O Captain My Captain! Do I contradict myself? very well then I condradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.} Keep your face always toward the sunshine- and shadows will fall behind you. I celebrate myself,, and sing myself.
Source: O Captain! My Captain!
Author: Walt Whitman
Submitted by
Melissa46, on November 7, 2018, at 10:03 am.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seed you plant
Source: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Submitted by
Bonny97, on November 8, 2018, at 3:32 am.
I felt close to shattering a few times. I did not break, but I wore thin during my debt drama.
Source: Burn Zones
Author: Jorge P. Newbery
Submitted by
Jorge P Newbery, on January 22, 2018, at 7:48 am.
"We have given many clues in order to consciously travel with the Astral body, so thousands of students have learned to travel in their Astral body.
Source: Dream Yoga
Author: Samael Aun Weor
Submitted by
sofapesa, on November 17, 2018, at 6:27 pm.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Source: Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare
Submitted by
PJ26, on November 20, 2018, at 11:06 pm.
The Internet is an evil thing.
Source: Nightlord: Sunset
Author: Garon Whited
Submitted by
GaronWhited, on January 22, 2018, at 10:10 pm.
Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here
Source: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Submitted by
Melekwe Anthony, on November 21, 2018, at 11:58 am.
The old lion lay in the tall grass
Source: Searching For Shetani
Author: J.D. Chaney
Submitted by
Jerome 1947 Chaney, on November 21, 2018, at 6:12 pm.
But he is the tsuki-no-usagi! Chicako, your thoughts are blasphemy!
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 6:06 pm.
I would like to see your master Inari, if it is possible. My name is Prishum and I am a blacksmith.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 6:10 pm.
A three strong cord is not easily broken. Red is for the blood to be shed. Green is for control of the walking dead. And purple is for the royalty ahead.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 6:13 pm.
The days passed, as they do, and life went on.
Source: candy
Author: Kevin Brooks
Submitted by
KawaiiEvie99, on November 23, 2018, at 8:16 pm.
I love fishing with Rose. Watching her cast is like watching a painter stroke a masterpiece. Her precise motions are evidence of years of practice, timing, and discipline. I hope to match her casting ability someday. ~Sophie
Source: The Reel Sisters
Author: Michelle Cummings
Submitted by
michmc3, on January 31, 2018, at 11:56 am.
I certainly didn't mean to fondle your strawberry creams. But who are you and what on earth are you doing down here?
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 11:18 pm.
What is that tapping, a gentle rapping on my chamber door? It is a twig a nothing more. Quoth the raven...
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 11:23 pm.
The dark elvish inscription says, Draw me not without reason, sheath me not without honor.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 11:28 pm.
Up the Devil's Postpile, and down the rushing glen, we dare not go a-hinting there, for fear of shadowy men. Elf-men, wolf-men, nasty to the core. They'll jump out from behind a tree and shock you with a roar!
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 11:33 pm.
Once at the bridge, you must make the old troll tell you where the nearest safe entrance is to the Underground City. He is the eater of men and Billy-goats, so beware!
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 11:39 pm.
To cross the bridge of death, you must answer me these questions three.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 11:42 pm.
Better to be the king of Hell, than a servant in Heaven.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 11:45 pm.
A dull pencil is better than a sharp mind.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 11:46 pm.
He is an outsider. He has placed in a pack of wolves, but he doesn't belong with them.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 23, 2018, at 11:49 pm.
When those skeletons were animated for the celebration, some were found to be much stronger and taller than the others. So Mortegras put those into a crucible of molten reddish metal that made them invulnerable to wood or metal weapons.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 24, 2018, at 12:00 am.
We would make a wish upon a feather, with the occasional plumes we found. Once the wish was made, we would watch the wind carry the feather away from our hands, hoping it would reach the fates, and they would make it come true.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 24, 2018, at 12:10 am.
Here, hold this bucket while you think about it. I must piss.
Source: Prishum's Revenge
Author: Paul Duncan
Submitted by
Magimark, on November 24, 2018, at 12:14 am.
"I just don't understand human beings sometimes, why lie when you have so much truth to validate your worth?"
Source: McDowell
Author: William H. Coles
Submitted by
Dorcas Serwaa Adu, on November 24, 2018, at 7:19 pm.
Puta, really, that’s the best insult you got? I’ve been called the Whore of Babylon on national TV; puta just doesn’t quite cut it.
Source: Dead ICe
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Submitted by
Callalilly6, on December 2, 2018, at 5:56 pm.
'I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,' said Simon.'I’ve read Magnus’s stash of comics,' said Alec, 'so I actually know what you’re talking about. So would that give me the proportional gayness of a spider?'
Source: City of Lost Souls
Author: Cassandra Clare
Submitted by
Becka_Faye, on February 8, 2018, at 8:19 am.
Have you ever tried nodding good morning to people while naked and holding a small arsenal of weapons
Source: Dead ICe
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Submitted by
Callalilly6, on December 2, 2018, at 5:59 pm.
Better never means better for everyone...It always means worse, for some.
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Submitted by
KFree_Reads, on February 8, 2018, at 9:12 pm.
One day our secret will not be a secret Because everybody will see That my secret, is your secret I will love you And you will love me, too.
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
Author: Mitch Albom
Submitted by
bleu stax, 5 days ago.
That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Submitted by
KFree_Reads, on February 8, 2018, at 9:13 pm.
continues. “Honesty means saying what you do. Integrity means doing what you say. If you can do both, day in and day out, then that’s an honour".
Source: The Easter Make Believers
Author: Finn Bell
Submitted by
Dayanda, 5 days ago.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Source: The Easter Make Believers
Author: Finn Bell
Submitted by
Dayanda, 5 days ago.
When power is scarce, a little if it is tempting.
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Submitted by
KFree_Reads, on February 8, 2018, at 9:16 pm.
I don't not like Green eggs in ham, oh you did not know. Sam I am,I don't like Green eggs and ham. - Dr.suess
Source: Green Eggs and Ham
Author: Dr. Suess
Submitted by
Nyny1100, 4 days ago.
On the surface, Peter and I lived in two very different worlds. Yet, the pond was a great equalizer; we were just a couple of human beings having a great time enjoying nature’s many wonders...
Source: And Then I Met Margaret
Author: Rob White
Submitted by
KFree_Reads, on February 8, 2018, at 9:29 pm.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever love
Source: Four
Author: Veronica Roth
Submitted by
NicJen2009, on February 12, 2018, at 4:15 am.
" After all this time, Always."
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K. Rowling
Submitted by
Hudaqaiyoom, on February 13, 2018, at 9:50 pm.
Oscar Wilde once said that one's real life is often the life one does not lead.
Source: A Long Way Down
Author: Nick Hornby
Submitted by
cristinaro, on February 15, 2018, at 7:23 am.
Show me a person who hasn't known any sorrow and I'll show you a superficial.
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams
Submitted by
R-Myra, on February 23, 2018, at 2:30 pm.
As you can imagine, when one lives much one forgets much. But you shoud know, it's important, that the most important thing is to learn to forget.
Source: Andalusian in Jerusalem
Author: Mois benarroch
Submitted by
Ida123, on February 26, 2018, at 3:37 pm.
Perhaps, thought I, perhaps - always that word, one never could escape it. It was certainly we lacked, certainly that everyone and everything lacked.
Source: Three Comrades
Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Submitted by
Ida123, on March 1, 2018, at 7:09 pm.
I wondered if that was the problem with literature - it made sense only in theoretical situations and didn’t often help in real life, where it took a hell of a lot more courage to live than to turn pages all alone, hidden away from the world...
Source: Every Exquisite Thing
Author: Matthew Quick
Submitted by
cascal312, on March 2, 2018, at 9:01 pm.
If you want to succeed be like water which can bend or splash at any time and even pass between big stones without facing difficulties so we should flow so we should be like water which is not afraid to conquer its enemies which are trees and stones.
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Author: Bruce Lee and Gilbert Johnson
Submitted by
Odhiambo Byron, on April 21, 2018, at 4:35 am.
if the future is forever,he thought,then eventually it will swallow us all up
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green
Submitted by
Sumanta, on April 24, 2018, at 6:51 am.
“I mightn’t be so sure about what interested me, I was absolutely sure about what didn’t interest me”
Source: The Stranger
Author: Albert Camus
Submitted by
Jonida, on April 27, 2018, at 7:19 pm.
"I'm quite illiterate, but read a lot."
Source: Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D Salinger
Submitted by
Laura Del, on April 29, 2018, at 4:37 pm.
Lance slid into the chair and looked out the bay window. In the past, the mists rising over the mountain in the distance could be seen. There is no music in a soul that cannot see the freshness after a rain, or a mighty sky beginning day. T
Source: Casanova Cowboy
Author: Jo Ann Bender
Submitted by
klepacki, on April 30, 2018, at 12:33 pm.
You can’t creep up on blowgun hunters with a Komatsu log loader.
Source: Hoard
Author: Thomas Coyle
Submitted by
tcoyle440, on May 8, 2018, at 1:36 pm.
Love fades, mine has
Source: vampire academy
Author: Richelle Mead
Submitted by
Bookreaper23, on May 16, 2018, at 5:50 pm.
I know that I am always alone, even when surrounded by people, so I let the emptiness in.
Source: We Are Okay
Author: Nina LaCour
Submitted by
BoopityBoop, on May 17, 2018, at 10:15 pm.
Everything is too crisp, too new. Each paper is the same white. It doesn’t matter that the quotes are interesting and pictures are pretty. It looks desperate.
Source: We Are Okay
Author: Nina LaCour
Submitted by
BoopityBoop, on May 17, 2018, at 10:15 pm.
When peace demands despair and shame, war remains the only option most humane
Source: Challenging Destiny
Author: Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran
Submitted by
MiziS_1305, on May 23, 2018, at 2:28 am.
Jamie chuckled,"She is the rose amongst the thorns!
Source: The Warramunga's War
Author: Greg Kater
Submitted by
Briok Ster, on May 25, 2018, at 9:11 am.
Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow
Source: Titus Andronicus
Author: William Shakespeare
Submitted by
Monemvasia2018, on June 2, 2018, at 4:01 am.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Source: A Man Without a Country
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Submitted by
Monemvasia2018, on June 2, 2018, at 4:22 am.
Some relationships are like pythons: they wrap around you, slowly squeezing until you can't breathe.
Source: The Red Hunter
Author: Lisa Unger
Submitted by
apINKpanda21, on June 4, 2018, at 11:02 am.
All I could picture was dry grass sticking to the white face paint. I wondered what kind of passionate declarations of love could come out of the throat of a silent mime in the midst of the sexual throes of ecstasy.
Source: We're Not Sixteen Anymore
Author: Becky Andersen
Submitted by
Yk06Ce23b, on June 4, 2018, at 5:43 pm.
Life isn't about what you've lost, but about what you've learned--and what you do with what you have left.
Source: Rethinking Possible
Author: Rebecca Faye Smith Galli
Submitted by
Rfsgalli, on June 9, 2018, at 9:15 am.
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
Submitted by
daniya__shah3, on June 13, 2018, at 11:55 am.
Evey man is a solitary soul imprisoned in a self made den,when he is quite alone he knows and frequently hates himself, sometimes he is even afraid of the gaunt and murderous monster he keeps hidden beyond his outwardly pleasant body mask.
Source: The Sorrows of Satan or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire
Author: Marie Corelli
Submitted by
Chambers01, on June 16, 2018, at 7:27 am.
Flick the switch! You have the power to change your attitude in a snap!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:15 am.
Are you your spouse’s “safe place"?
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:15 am.
How do I make my married life wonderful instead of “nothing special”? (I would rather have a minute of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.)
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:16 am.
Be a thermometer and not a thermostat! (Set the temperature rather than registering it!)
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:16 am.
How do you leave a place better than when you came?
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:16 am.
What fragrance do you bring into a room when you enter?
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:16 am.
How do you “add value” to the lives around you?
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:17 am.
What do you have to offer; what is your “value added proposition”?
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:17 am.
Are you easier to live with or easier to live without?
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:17 am.
You find what you are looking for: are you looking for things that are right or things that are wrong?
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:17 am.
In order to enjoy the fruits of your labor, you have to labor.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:17 am.
If you link, you sink.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:18 am.
If you fix what you stumble at, you may be able to avoid falling.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:18 am.
Being secure is not only being secure in who you are, but also being secure in who you are not.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:18 am.
You can’t drive straight if your eyes are fixed on the rearview mirror.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:18 am.
The choices you make today will determine whether you fly or cry tomorrow.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:18 am.
Be where your body is.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:19 am.
When you are juggling, to catch one ball you need to let go of the others.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:19 am.
It's easier to shut up than sweep up!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:19 am.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:19 am.
The “present” comes with a big bow on it: it is up to you to open & enjoy it!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:20 am.
Life is a gift; that is why today is called the “present.” Enjoy your present.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:20 am.
Marriage is like a marathon, not a sprint.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:20 am.
Let it go, lay it down, give it up, forget about it!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:20 am.
I don't have to be EVERYTHING to be SOMETHING! Do what you CAN!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:21 am.
Today is the harvest from the seeds we sowed in our yesterdays.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:21 am.
Model response-ability!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:21 am.
Saying no often means saying yes to something else that is more a priority!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:21 am.
I don't have to be EVERYTHING to be SOMETHING!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:21 am.
Don't just love someone for who they ARE, love them for who they ARE NOT!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:22 am.
Don’t just be secure in who you are; be secure in who you are not.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:22 am.
Sometimes the only thing you can choose is your attitude.
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:22 am.
Put your “cute” on at home!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:22 am.
Live from the inside out: your husband, children and family should get your best!
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:22 am.
Does your calendar and checkbook show that you are living out your priorities?
Source: How to Build an Enduring Marriage
Author: Karen Budzinski
Submitted by
KBudz, on June 17, 2018, at 8:22 am.
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
Source: tuesdays with Morrie
Author: Mitch Albom
Submitted by
obc_lei05, on June 19, 2018, at 12:54 pm.
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
Source: Master of the Game
Author: sidney sheldon
Submitted by
sumawan, on June 21, 2018, at 4:11 pm.
It was just like Kailani to stay behind the scenes, giving her sister the spotlight she craved, letting her shine, when in my eyes it was Kailani who was truly the star.
Source: Mystic Tides
Author: C.J.Godwin
Submitted by
CJ_Godwin, on June 23, 2018, at 10:40 am.
How would you like to make it to the gates of heaven and find Buddha sitting there guarding the entrance?
Source: Mystic Tides
Author: C.J.Godwin
Submitted by
CJ_Godwin, on June 23, 2018, at 10:45 am.
You have the most beautiful voice that I've ever heard. It is not so easily forgotten.
Source: Mystic Tides
Author: C.J.Godwin
Submitted by
CJ_Godwin, on June 23, 2018, at 10:48 am.
The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car. Up until then, I was having a great afternoon.
Source: The Last Olympian
Author: Rick Riordan
Submitted by
oceana, on July 3, 2018, at 10:00 pm.
When you think about it, a lot of fundamental physics is the solemn statement of the absurdly obvious. Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.
Source: Odd Thomas
Author: Dean Koontz
Submitted by
ea_anthony, on July 16, 2018, at 4:56 pm.
Most people desperately desire to believe that they are part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and glory, not merely the result of random forces colliding.
Source: Odd Thomas
Author: Dean Koontz
Submitted by
ea_anthony, on July 16, 2018, at 4:59 pm.
Angus was the kind of man who became King. The kind of man who put duty before love, and love before life. The kind of man who would die before dishonour. He was the man you never wanted to fall in love with, for he would always leave you wanting.
Source: Girl Desecrated
Author: Cheryl R. Cowtan
Submitted by
CherylRCowtan, on July 17, 2018, at 10:30 am.
That man I once was, I must endeavor to become again. I would have to learn to be content to be part of one world only—this world. I had to forget that other world of pleasure and temptation for it was the path to hell.
Source: Girl Desecrated
Author: Cheryl R. Cowtan
Submitted by
CherylRCowtan, on July 17, 2018, at 10:33 am.
The people on this ship were pliable like water, and she, hard and unswerving like the rudder, could easily sway their will. And as it was on sea, so it would be on land.
Source: Girl Desecrated
Author: Cheryl R. Cowtan
Submitted by
CherylRCowtan, on July 17, 2018, at 10:37 am.
"Synchronized eating has a future as an olympic sports."
Source: Can I be Frank
Author: rob wyatt
Submitted by
Nerea, on July 19, 2018, at 5:50 am.
“Gossip is the creation of civilization and the product of friendship. Repeated often enough binds the society together.”
Source: Mythic Worlds and the One You Can Believe In
Author: Harold Toliver
Submitted by
Maemuna, on July 23, 2018, at 4:11 am.
one normal human reaction in the face of amounts beyond what even super computers can handle would be something like a flippant.”
Source: Mythic Worlds and the One You Can Believe In
Author: Harold Toliver
Submitted by
Maemuna, on July 23, 2018, at 4:11 am.
Remember that there’s no desert. There’s only our incompetency to fill the void in which we live.
Source: Life on a Station Platform
Author: Octavian Paler
Submitted by
chipiron, on August 6, 2018, at 9:05 am.
“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.”
Source: The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D Salinger
Submitted by
sszb, on August 31, 2018, at 5:11 am.
The needles and tubes seemed to be growing out of my skin. There was a machine of some sort beside the bed, and another above my head that beeped continuously - like the beep when they cut the bad language on television . . . fuck, fuck,fuck,fuck.
Source: Woman with Doll and Other Stories
Author: Joan Slowey
Submitted by
Primrose, on September 17, 2018, at 7:49 am.
