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2024-11-02 06:00:04

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. - Adam Smith

2024-10-30 17:00:02

We love the things we love for what they are. - Robert Frost

2024-10-25 18:00:02

From 'the lesson of the moth':and before i could argue himout of his philosophyhe went and immolated himselfon a patent cigar lighteri do not agree with himmyself i would rather havehalf the happiness and twicethe longevitybut at the same time i wishthere was something i wantedas badly as he wanted to fry himself - Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel

2024-10-24 20:00:01

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard. - Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

2024-10-23 01:00:03

Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture. - Chuck Klosterman, Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

2024-10-19 17:00:01

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.. - Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

2024-10-19 02:00:01

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller

2024-10-11 11:00:01

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love. - Frank O'Hara

2024-10-10 03:00:01

Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death’s handmaidens. - R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy

2024-10-09 23:00:01

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. - Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

2024-10-08 10:00:03

HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway,WHENdid creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the personWHOlives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you -WHATis perfect. - Ellen Hopkins, Perfect

2024-10-07 14:00:01

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. - Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

2024-10-04 12:00:02

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

2024-10-02 03:00:02

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature. - Heraclitus, Fragments

2024-09-30 09:00:02

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening. - Epictetus

2024-09-30 05:00:01

There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart? - Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn

2024-09-29 16:00:01

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. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

2024-09-29 04:00:03

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

2024-09-28 01:00:04

With the world securely in order, Dain was able to devote the leisurely bath time to editing his mental dictionary. He removed his wife from the general category labeled Females and gave her a section of her own. He made a note that she didn't find him revolting, and proposed several explanations: (a) bad eyesight and faulty hearing, (b)a defect in a portion of her otherwise sound intellect, (c) an inherited Trent eccentricity, or (d) an act of God. Since the Almighty had not done him a single act of kindness in at least twenty-five years, Dain thought it was about bloody time, but he thanked his Heavenly Father all the same, and promised to be as good as he was capable of being. - Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels

2024-09-26 09:00:01

Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.) - William Goldman, The Princess Bride

2024-09-26 06:00:02

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. - Anaïs Nin

2024-09-26 00:00:04

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much. - Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

2024-09-25 22:00:02

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2024-09-21 13:00:06

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. - Michel Houellebecq

2024-09-16 07:00:01

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt

2024-09-14 18:00:06

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action. - Ilyas Kassam

2024-09-13 03:00:02

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal. - Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War

2024-09-11 14:00:06

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. - Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

2024-09-11 07:00:02

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries. - A.A. Milne

2024-09-11 04:00:02

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. - Eleanor Roosevelt

2024-09-10 14:00:04

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste. - Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle

2024-09-10 12:00:04

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.''That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes. - Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver Blaze

2024-09-09 11:00:02

My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my neck. He kept going until he reached the bottom of the dress’s V-neck. I let out a small gasp, and he kissed all around the neckline, just enough to tease. - Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

2024-09-09 07:00:02

The only certainty life contains is death. - Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk

2024-09-07 22:00:05

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. - Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

2024-09-07 11:00:03

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past. - Fred Rogers, Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

2024-09-06 11:00:03

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight. - Neil Peart

2024-09-06 01:00:02

They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true. - Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

2024-09-05 20:00:01

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing. - Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse

2024-09-05 05:00:04

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey. - Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

2024-09-04 20:00:02

Hell's bells, irony blows. - Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

2024-09-04 09:00:03

So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here - Deborah Cox

2024-09-03 14:00:03

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break. - Mary Oliver

2024-09-01 10:00:07

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like. - Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

2024-08-31 09:00:03

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan

2024-08-31 01:00:01

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. - Martin Buber

2024-08-26 11:00:07

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going? - Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

2024-08-26 10:00:04

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number. - P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

2024-08-24 11:00:01

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. - Woody Allen

2024-08-23 23:00:01

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

2024-08-23 03:00:07

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. - Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones

2024-08-21 14:00:02

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. - Max Ehrmann, Desiderata - A Poem for a Way of Life

2024-08-21 09:00:02

Till I loved I never lived. - Emily Dickinson

2024-08-21 06:00:06

Fear is a natural emotion in life, but you cannot let it dictate your actions. When you act out of fear, you will only meet failure. But act out of determination to conquer that fear, and you will succeed at anything. Maybe not the first time, or the second or third, but eventually—as long as you keep trying—you can conquer your fears and succeed. - Tiana Dalichov, Purification

2024-08-21 05:00:02

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

2024-08-21 04:00:02

Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen. - Roy T. Bennett

2024-08-21 03:00:05

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. - Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

2024-08-21 02:00:03

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

2024-08-21 01:00:03

I am a part of all that I have met. - Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

2024-08-21 00:00:08

I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it. - Diana, Princess of Wales

2024-08-20 23:00:01

Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not. - Rachel Hawthorne, Full Moon

2024-08-20 10:00:04

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Socrates

2024-08-20 08:00:05

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

2024-08-20 06:00:01

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction. - Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

2024-08-20 04:00:01

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. - Hunter S. Thompson

2024-08-19 20:00:02

Love was the most savage monster of all. - Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

2024-08-19 03:00:01

Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy. - Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

2024-08-18 21:00:02

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths. - Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot

2024-08-18 15:00:06

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? - John Wooden

2024-08-18 11:00:01

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2024-08-17 19:00:02

The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me. - C. JoyBell C.

2024-08-17 17:00:03

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. - George Eliot

2024-08-17 05:00:02

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. - Carlos Castañeda

2024-08-17 04:00:01

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. - John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

2024-08-17 00:00:01

His breath hitched, and he regarded me hungrily. “You’re playing with fire, you know that?” “That’s weird, considering you’re an ice prin—” I didn’t get any further, as Ash leaned in and kissed me. - Julie Kagawa, Winter's Passage

2024-08-16 19:00:03

If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you. - Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

2024-08-16 13:00:02

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance. - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

2024-08-16 10:00:03

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink. - Charles Bukowski

2024-08-16 07:00:01

I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as sure as He has loved me. I will discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery, save God's own knowledge, what I disclose of you I will keep in the warmest chamber of my heart, the very chamber where God has stowed Himself in me. And I will do this to my death, and to death it may bring me. I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding you love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us. - Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

2024-08-16 02:00:01

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. - Ray Bradbury

2024-08-15 17:00:02

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough. - Alain de Botton

2024-08-15 16:00:01

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up. - Ray Romano

2024-08-15 13:00:07

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. - Bertrand Russell

2024-08-15 11:00:02

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. - François de La Rochefoucauld

2024-08-15 07:00:06

You know on TV when there’s one of those awkward, shocking moments and all you hear are the crickets in the background?Well chirp fucking chirp...this is one of those moments. - Emma Chase, Tangled

2024-08-14 13:00:02

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

2024-08-14 05:00:06

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. - Oprah Winfrey

2024-08-14 04:00:03

People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past. - Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

2024-08-14 02:00:01

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. - Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

2024-08-13 15:00:06

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été. - Albert Camus

2024-08-12 12:00:04

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals. - Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

2024-08-12 11:00:02

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. - Oliver Sacks

2024-08-12 10:00:01

You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. - Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

2024-08-12 09:00:01

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

2024-08-12 08:00:03

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken. - Shannon L. Alder

2024-08-12 05:00:02

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found. - Epicurus, Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings

2024-08-11 23:00:04

What I was trying to say,” he whispered, “is that I see you in everything. There isn’t a word for you that means enough, because you’re everything to me. - Veronica Rossi, Into the Still Blue

2024-08-10 23:00:07

Why is love intensified by absence? - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

2024-08-10 09:00:02

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. - Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

2024-08-09 23:00:02

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night