智慧语录

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

We are always the same age inside.

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.

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.

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

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.

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.

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.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

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.

Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

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 chortled.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

Don't let the muggles get you down.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

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 here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

We live as we dream--alone....

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!

Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!” I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one."That’s what I was supposed to say. . .” he gasped out.Those were his last words.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path. No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded. Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything. Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.

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.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.

What's up?" I asked.You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian."It was an experiment," I said. "It was part of my therapy."What the hell kind of therapy are you in?

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 be, or if it's already happened.

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. is soon forgotten, but lasts forever.

I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.

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.

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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?

The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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 the beginning.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

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.

In the world I amAlways a strangerI do not understand its languageIt does not understand my silence

When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to use and how quickly to use them. I'd been asked this question hundreds of times over the years, and I remember once early on when I couldn't get my breath and it felt like my chest was on fire, flames licking the inside of my ribs fighting for a way to burn out of my body, my parents took me to the ER. nurse asked me about the pain, and I couldn't even speak, so I held up nine fingers.Later, after they'd given me something, the nurse came in and she was kind of stroking my head while she took my blood pressure and said, "You know how I know you're a fighter? You called a ten a nine."But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

True friends are always together in spirit.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.

By you, I am forever undone.

Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

That which you believe becomes your world.

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

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.

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Gus: "It tastes like..."Me: "Food."Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?"Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table."Gus: "Nicely phrased."Gus's father: "Our children are weird."My dad: "Nicely phrased.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron."What did you have to imitate her for?""She laughed at my mustache!""So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.

So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

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.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

The unfed mind devours itself.

Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

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!

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Demon pox, oh demon poxJust how is it acquired?One must go down to the bad part of townUntil one is very tired.Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along—Not the pox, you foolish blocks,I mean this very song—For I was right, and you were wrong!""Will!" Charlotte shouted over the noise, "Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET! Jem—" Jem, rising to his feet, clapped his hands over Will's mouth. "Do you promise to be quiet?" he hissed into his friend's ear.Will nodded, blue eyes blazing. Tessa was staring at him in amazement; they all were. She had seen Will many things—amused, bitter, condescending, angry, pitying—but never giddy before.Jem let him go. "All right, then."Will slid to the floor, his back against the armchair, and threw up his arms. "A demon pox on all your houses!" he announced, and yawned."Oh, God, weeks of pox jokes," said Jem. "We're in for it now.

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""Who's Magnus?" Max inquired."He's a warlock," said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly," said Isabelle.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know."Oh, sure you know," the photographer said."She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

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 dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

The best way out is always through.

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

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.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

The past is never where you think you left it.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

All thinking men are atheists.

Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.

I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.

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.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

I don't go out with strangers," I said."Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

I got schooled this year.A boy that I'm in with.And he taught me the most important thing of ...To put the On .

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond. "How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks. "You were asleep, too?" "Until you began drooling on my shoulder.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Only you can control your future.

There are much worse games to play.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.

Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.

Freedom lies in being bold.

You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

ليس هناك كتابا أقرأه و لا أستفيد منه شيئا جديدا ، فحتى الكتاب التافه أستفيد من قراءته ، أني تعلمت شيئا جديدا هو ما هي التفاهة ؟ و كيف يكتب الكتاب التافهون ؟ و فيم يفكرون ؟

Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.

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.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

The earth has its music for those who will listen

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.""Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before."Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that

there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.

The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

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 doubts.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... to make life bearable."REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."They're not the same at all!"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."Yes, but people have to believe that, or what's the —"MY POINT EXACTLY.

Dignity/ˈdignitē/ noun 1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache. 2. The moment you realize God had greater plans for you that don’t involve crying at night or sad Pinterest quotes.3. The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom.4. The moment you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter. 5. The moment you realize that no one is your enemy, except yourself.6. The moment you realize that you can have everything you want in life. However, it takes timing, the right heart, the right actions, the right passion and a willingness to risk it all. If it is not yours, it is because you really didn’t want it, need it or God prevented it. 7. The moment you realize the ghost of your ancestors stood between you and the person you loved. They really don't want you mucking up the family line with someone that acts anything less than honorable.8. The moment you realize that happiness was never about getting a person. They are only a helpmate towards achieving your life mission.9. The moment you believe that love is not about losing or winning. It is just a few moments in time, followed by an eternity of situations to grow from.10. The moment you realize that you were always the right person. Only ignorant people walk away from greatness.

You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." “That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

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.

It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ...""I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.