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['alaska-young']
| “Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war” |
['blackjack', 'dionysus', 'percy-jackson']
| “God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!” |
['humor', 'reason']
| “Humor is reason gone mad.” |
['death', 'living-life']
| “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” |
['hell', 'life']
| “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” |
['birthday', 'dursley', 'hagrid', 'harry-potter', 'humor', 'pig', 'wizard']
| “Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred."Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?""Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""I forge’ the details," Hagrid chort... |
['healing', 'injuries', 'memory', 'past', 'reality', 'scars', 'time']
| “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” |
['doubt', 'experience', 'learning', 'mistakes', 'records', 'wisdom']
| “We learn from failure, not from success!” |
['einstein', 'gaiman', 'god', 'humor']
| “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer ... |
['education', 'marriage']
| “Marriage can wait, education cannot.” |
['books', 'inspirational']
| “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” |
['animals', 'ethics', 'gandhi', 'morals']
| “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
['katniss', 'mockingjay']
| “There are much worse games to play.” |
['humor']
| “I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.” |
['hope', 'love']
| “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.” |
['choices', 'misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt']
| “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.” |
['adventure', 'laughter']
| “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” |
['art', 'depression', 'growth', 'life', 'pain', 'suffering', 'wisdom']
| “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” |
['reading', 'writing']
| “A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” |
['inspiration']
| “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” |
['martyrdom', 'misattributed-to-albert-camus', 'pacifism', 'principles', 'war']
| “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.” |
['encouragement', 'muggles', 'wit']
| “Don't let the muggles get you down.” |
['birth', 'identity', 'life', 'self']
| “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.” |
['aristotle', 'genius', 'great-minds', 'madness']
| “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” |
['nature']
| “The mountains are calling and I must go.” |
['buddism', 'kindness', 'religion']
| “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” |
['books', 'humor']
| “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.” |
['grief', 'mourning', 'sadness', 'sorrow', 'suffering']
| “She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.” |
['broken-families', 'divorce', 'family', 'family-ties', 'forgiveness', 'hate', 'inspirational-life', 'inspirational-quotes', 'letting-go', 'marriage', 'moving-on', 'soul-ties', 'the-nature-of-family', 'true-family']
| “There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If ... |
['dream']
| “You're something between a dream and a miracle.” |
['books', 'reading']
| “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” |
['language', 'power-of-words', 'propaganda', 'thought']
| “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” |
['life-lessons']
| “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” |
['family', 'food', 'thanksgiving']
| “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” |
['writing']
| “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” |
['lovers']
| “Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.” |
['fear']
| “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.” |
['absence', 'loss']
| “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” |
['age', 'exercise', 'family', 'grandmothers', 'grandparents', 'humor', 'walking']
| “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.” |
['motivation', 'success']
| “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ” |
['death', 'life']
| “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” |
['independence']
| “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” |
['harry-potter']
| “I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.” |
['bibliophiles', 'book-lovers', 'whiskey']
| “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.” |
['future']
| “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” |
['books', 'literature', 'on-fiction']
| “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” |
['humor']
| “If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.” |
['concealment', 'dark-plans', 'darkness', 'stealth']
| “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” |
['beauty', 'femininity', 'sex']
| “We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.” |
['hope', 'life', 'pain', 'strength', 'tragedy']
| “There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” |
['essay', 'inspirational', 'lecture', 'nonfiction', 'philosophy', 'self-reliance', 'social-commentary', 'transcendentalism']
| “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” |
['confidence', 'inspirational', 'inspirational-attitude', 'life', 'life-philosophy', 'optimism', 'power-of-words']
| “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!” |
['love']
| “I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every... |
['life-lessons']
| “And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to b... |
['freedom', 'inspirational', 'literature']
| “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” |
['music', 'philosophy', 'revelation', 'wisdom']
| “Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” |
['inspirational', 'life']
| “When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.” |
['love']
| “To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.” |
['funny', 'morganvillevampires']
| “Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane” |
['self-confidence']
| “We are always the same age inside. ” |
['abilities', 'capability', 'confidence', 'optimism', 'possibility', 'skills', 'strength']
| “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at th... |
['inspirational']
| “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!” |
['friendship']
| “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” |
['life']
| “It is not the length of life, but the depth.” |
['goodness', 'sexuality', 'virtue']
| “When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ” |
['creativity', 'inspirational']
| “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ” |
['hope', 'longing', 'pain', 'regret', 'yearning']
| “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All thes... |
['happiness', 'thinking', 'wisedom']
| “I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” |
['sarah-dessen', 'this-lullaby']
| “Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.” |
['anais', 'nin']
| “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dan... |
['gonzo', 'happiness', 'risk']
| “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” |
['deception', 'detection', 'evidence', 'facts', 'obviousness', 'sherlock-holmes']
| “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” |
['humor', 'philosophy', 'religion']
| “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” |
['assumptions', 'close-mindedness', 'intelligence', 'isaac-asimov', 'knowledge', 'open-mind', 'open-mindedness', 'open-minds', 'opinions', 'receptivity', 'science', 'science-of-mind']
| “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” |
['christina', 'divergent', 'funny', 'humor', 'tris', 'veronica-roth']
| “Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.” |
['perseverance', 'suicide', 'survival']
| “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” |
['anarchy', 'freedom', 'inspirational', 'lateral-thinking', 'philosophy', 'rationalism']
| “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” |
['zarek']
| “I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.” |
['april', 'dystopia', 'first-sentence', 'opening-lines']
| “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” |
['give', 'giving', 'inspiration', 'inspirational', 'inspirational-quotes', 'inspire', 'inspiring', 'kindness', 'life', 'life-quotes', 'living']
| “Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.” |
['fairy-tales', 'hope', 'paraphrased', 'possiblity']
| “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” |
['drunk', 'poetry', 'virtue', 'wine']
| “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” |
['confession', 'excuses', 'honesty', 'lies', 'lying', 'truth']
| “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” |
['dreams', 'life', 'love']
| “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” |
['art', 'humor', 'life']
| “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.” |
['carpe-diem', 'future', 'present']
| “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” |
['relationships']
| “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” |
['human', 'life']
| “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” |
['aciman', 'call-me-by-your-name', 'italy', 'love']
| “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!” |
['marilyn-monroe']
| “I just want to be wonderful.” |
['intellectuals', 'intelligence', 'philosophy', 'scholars']
| “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my ... |
['change', 'courage', 'fear', 'life']
| “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....” |
['conformity', 'education', 'feminism', 'knowledge-power', 'quip', 'school']
| “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught... |
['inspirational', 'poem']
| “If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Momâ€�, she’s gonna call me “Point B.â€� Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she ca... |
['comedy', 'elizabethan', 'robin-goodfellow']
| “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” |
['inspirational']
| “If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've go... |
['death', 'grief', 'loss']
| “When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just whe... |
['adventure', 'goodbye', 'travel']
| “What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” |
['dreamers', 'magic', 'mermaids', 'travel', 'wizard']
| “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” |
['angel', 'becca-fitzpatrick', 'hush', 'nora-grey', 'patch']
| “Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" I asked."If I did?""I don't like it."He grinned. "It stays, Angel.” |
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