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id: 2023-03-03
author: Mahatma Gandhi
quote:
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.


id: 2023-03-04
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.


id: 2023-03-05
author: Dale Carnegie
quote:
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.


id: 2023-03-06
author: Suzanne Collins
quote:
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.


id: 2023-03-09
author: Maya Angelou
quote:
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.


id: 2023-03-10
author: Agatha Christie
quote:
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.


id: 2023-03-11
author: Mother Teresa
quote:
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?


id: 2023-03-12
author: Andrew Boyd
quote:
We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.


id: 2023-03-13
author: Mark Twain
quote:
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.


id: 2023-03-18
author: Albert Schweitzer
quote:
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.


id: 2023-03-20
author: Steve Maraboli
quote:
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.


id: 2023-03-21
author: Rabindranath Tagore
quote:
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.


id: 2023-03-26
author: Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
quote:
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.


id: 2023-03-27
author: Leonardo da Vinci
quote:
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.


id: 2023-03-30
author: Taylor Swift
quote:
When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.


id: 2023-03-31
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.


id: 2023-04-01
author: Jim MORRISON
quote:
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.


id: 2023-04-02
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.


id: 2023-04-03
author: Santosh Kalwar
quote:
I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.


id: 2023-04-05
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.


id: 2023-04-07
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
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.


id: 2023-04-08
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.


id: 2023-04-09
author: John F. Kennedy
quote:
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.


id: 2023-04-11
author: Cornelia Funke
quote:
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.


id: 2023-04-13
author: Jonathan Safran Foer
quote:
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.


id: 2023-04-16
author: William Blake
quote:
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


id: 2023-04-17
author: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
quote:
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.


id: 2023-04-19
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
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 in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.


id: 2023-04-20
author: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
quote:
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.


id: 2023-04-22
author: J. K. Rowling
quote:
The thing about growing up with Fred and George, said Ginny thoughtfully, is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.


id: 2023-04-24
author: Leonardo da Vinci
quote:
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.


id: 2023-04-26
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.


id: 2023-04-27
author: Bob Marley
quote:
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.


id: 2023-04-28
author: Stephenie Meyer
quote:
It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.


id: 2023-04-29
author: Dr. Seuss
quote:
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.


id: 2023-05-01
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.


id: 2023-05-02
author: J.K. Rowling
quote:
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.


id: 2023-05-03
author: Rumi
quote:
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.


id: 2023-05-04
author: Clive Barker
quote:
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.


id: 2023-05-06
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.


id: 2023-05-07
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.


id: 2023-05-11
author: Taylor Swift
quote:
To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.


id: 2023-05-16
author: Christopher Paolini
quote:
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.


id: 2023-05-17
author: Oriah Mountain Dreamer
quote:
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing


id: 2023-05-19
author: Stephen Hawking
quote:
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.


id: 2023-05-25
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.


id: 2023-05-26
author: Steve Maraboli
quote:
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.


id: 2023-05-27
author: J.K. Rowling
quote:
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.


id: 2023-05-31
author: Chuck Palahniuk
quote:
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.


id: 2023-06-09
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.


id: 2023-06-10
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.


id: 2023-06-11
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
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.


id: 2023-06-15
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.


id: 2023-06-17
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.


id: 2023-06-19
author: J. K. Rowling
quote:
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.


id: 2023-06-21
author: Neil Gaiman
quote:
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood


id: 2023-06-22
author: Paulo Coelho
quote:
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.


id: 2023-06-28
author: Steve Maraboli
quote:
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.


id: 2023-07-05
author: Viktor E. Frankl
quote:
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.


id: 2023-07-07
author: Eleanor Roosevelt
quote:
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.


id: 2023-07-08
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.


id: 2023-07-11
author: Barack Obama
quote:
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.


id: 2023-07-16
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Top 15 Things Money Can't Buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. 


id: 2023-07-20
author: Mitch Albom
quote:
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.


id: 2023-07-22
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.


id: 2023-07-25
author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
quote:
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.


id: 2023-07-28
author: Abraham Lincoln
quote:
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.


id: 2023-07-31
author: Randy Pausch
quote:
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.


id: 2023-08-01
author: Stephen Chbosky
quote:
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.


id: 2023-08-03
author: Laurell K. Hamilton
quote:
I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.


id: 2023-08-04
author: Jack Kornfield
quote:
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.


id: 2023-08-08
author: Harvey Fierstein
quote:
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.


id: 2023-08-11
author: Peter S. Beagle
quote:
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.


id: 2023-08-12
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.


id: 2023-08-17
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.


id: 2023-08-18
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.


id: 2023-08-24
author: Fannie Flagg
quote:
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.


id: 2023-08-27
author: Mitch Albom
quote:
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.


id: 2023-08-28
author: Anne Frank
quote:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.


id: 2023-08-29
author: Stephanie Lennox
quote:
I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?


id: 2023-08-30
author: Steve Maraboli
quote:
I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.


id: 2023-08-31
author: Steve Maraboli
quote:
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.


id: 2023-09-02
author: Leo Tolstoy
quote:
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.


id: 2023-09-05
author: Doris Lessing
quote:
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.


id: 2023-09-07
author: Philip Pullman
quote:
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence


id: 2023-09-08
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.


id: 2023-09-10
author: Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
quote:
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?


id: 2023-09-11
author: John Green
quote:
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.


id: 2023-09-18
author: Charlotte Brontë
quote:
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.


id: 2023-09-19
author: Sarah Kay
quote:
If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” 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 can say “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.


id: 2023-09-20
author: Ray Bradbury
quote:
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 got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.


id: 2023-09-22
author: George Washington Burnap
quote:
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.


id: 2023-09-28
author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
quote:
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.


id: 2023-10-01
author: Napoleon Hill
quote:
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.


id: 2023-10-04
author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
quote:
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.


id: 2023-10-05
author: Nora Roberts
quote:
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.


id: 2023-10-06
author: Gilles Deleuze
quote:
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.


id: 2023-10-07
author: Stephen Chbosky
quote:
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.


id: 2023-10-08
author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
quote:
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.


id: 2023-10-12
author: John Henry Newman
quote:
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.


id: 2023-10-13
author: Eleanor Roosevelt
quote:
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.


id: 2023-10-15
author: Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
quote:
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.


id: 2023-10-17
author: Rebecca Walker
quote:
. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.


id: 2023-10-19
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.


id: 2023-10-21
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.


id: 2023-10-22
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.


id: 2023-10-23
author: George Carlin
quote:
We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.


id: 2023-10-24
author: Horton Foote
quote:
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.


id: 2023-10-25
author: Tami Hoag
quote:
We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.


id: 2023-10-26
author: Maya Angelou
quote:
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.


id: 2023-10-31
author: Erin Morgenstern
quote:
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.


id: 2023-11-03
author: Walt Disney Company
quote:
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.


id: 2023-11-05
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.


id: 2023-11-06
author: Maya Angelou
quote:
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.


id: 2023-11-12
author: John Green
quote:
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.


id: 2023-11-13
author: L.M. Montgomery
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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.


id: 2023-11-14
author: Steve Maraboli
quote:
Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.


id: 2023-11-16
author: Cassandra Clare
quote:
Hearts are breakable, Isabelle said. And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before.


id: 2023-11-19
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.


id: 2023-11-20
author: Victor Hugo
quote:
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.


id: 2023-11-21
author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
quote:
You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.


id: 2023-11-23
author: Roy T. Bennett
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When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.


id: 2023-11-24
author: Sarah Vowell
quote:
We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.


id: 2023-11-30
author: Chuck Palahniuk
quote:
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.


id: 2023-12-03
author: Lauren Oliver
quote:
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.


id: 2023-12-05
author: Gordon B. Hinckley
quote:
True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.


id: 2023-12-09
author: Steve Maraboli
quote:
How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.


id: 2023-12-10
author: Roy T. Bennett
quote:
Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.


id: 2023-12-12
author: Wendy Mass
quote:
A fight is going on inside me, said an old man to his son. It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you.


id: 2023-12-13
author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
quote:
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.


id: 2023-12-16
author: Helen Keller
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.


id: 2023-12-19
author: J.M. Barrie
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The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.


id: 2023-12-25
author: Betty Smith
quote:
Dear God, she prayed, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.


id: 2023-12-28
author: Brene Brown
quote:
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.


id: 2023-12-29
author: Gautama Buddha
quote:
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.


id: 2023-12-30
author: C.S. Lewis
quote:
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.


id: 2023-12-31
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.


id: 2024-01-02
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.


id: 2024-01-03
author: Alan Moore
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Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.


id: 2024-01-04
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.


id: 2024-01-07
author: Aristotle
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.


id: 2024-01-10
author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
quote:
People where you live, the little prince said, grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for..


id: 2024-01-12
author: Steve Maraboli
quote:
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.


id: 2024-01-14
author: G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
quote:
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.,Chesterton


id: 2024-01-16
author: The Dalai Lama
quote:
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.


id: 2024-01-22
author: Tupac Shakur
quote:
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.


id: 2024-01-23
author: Richard Dawkins
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?


id: 2024-01-24
author: C. JoyBell C.
quote:
I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!


id: 2024-01-26
author: Martin Luther King Jr.
quote:
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.


id: 2024-01-28
author: Marcus Aurelius
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...


id: 2024-01-29
author: T.S. Eliot
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I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.


id: 2024-02-02
author: Thomas A. Edison
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.


id: 2024-02-03
author: Sabaa Tahir
quote:
Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.


