Favorite Quotes

[Lyember]

"Who knew that the path to a woman's heart was through the soul of an honest man?"
-Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository by Melissa de la Cruz  

[xENVYxMEx]

to die for love... what could be more glorious.  

[Lyember]

How true...

"To those who accept their fate, happiness. To those who defy it, glory."
-Princess Tutu

"I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?"
-James Thomson

"It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is not an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment."
-Elie Wiesel

"The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again."
-Thomas Paine

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our flesh and blood and bones."
-Henry David Thoreau

"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in the elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying 'Long time - no see.' If he had not broken your heart, you could not have that glorious feeling of relief."
-Phyllis Battelle

"Courage charms us because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world; that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you feel like the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, 'They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it.' Then you feel, 'I can do it, too.'"
-John Leguizamo

"Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind."
-Christmas Humphreys

"It is nonsense for you to talk of old age so long as you outrun young men in the race for service and in the midst of anxious times fill rooms with your laughter and inspire youth with hope when they are on the brink of despair."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they don't find them, make them."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race."
-Lewis Mumford

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be give to you because you could not live them."
-Rainier Maria Rilke

"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society, moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change."
-Robert Kennedy

"If life becomes too hard to bear, we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly ever occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The subtlest play of the zygomaticus major -- the facial muscles that govern the smile -- can spell the difference between the passing indifference of strangers and the flowering of lifelong romance, the difference between peaceful coexistence and deadly violence."
-Dr. Melvin Konner

"Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains. Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God because they induce a kind of contact with the Creator and Ruler of the Universe."
-Thomas Merton

"When your soul quits taking refuge in pretense and stops being a fugitive from spirit, it will catch on fire and serve as a beacon lighting the way to your calling, your destiny, to being completely and entirely you."
-John Renesch

"You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. Nothing becomes truly 'one's own' except on the basis of some genuine effort or sacrifice. The gift of material goods makes people dependent, but the gift of knowledge makes them free."
-E.F. Schumacher

"I walked a mile with pleasure.
She chattered all the way,
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with sorrow,
And neither a word said she;
But oh, the things I learned from her
When sorrow walked with me."
-Robert Browning Hamilton

"The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place... In which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return."
-Fred Rogers  

[Lyember]

Quotes from Ramses: The Son of Light by Christian Jacq:

Ramses: "My heart knows no fear."
Tuya: "Then throw your whole being into the struggle ahead. Never look back, have no regrets or remorse. Steer clear of envy and jealousy."

"...silence makes the soul grow like a flowering tree."

Seti: "A real man does more than hope. He acts."
Ramses: "Even when fate works against him?"
Seti: "Then he has to change his fate. If he can't, he should lower his sights and not blame others."

"Flattery doesn't work on mothers."

"Don't ask too much of life; it will turn against you."

"Wealth that is based on profit is hollow and cannot last. Each person, each thing, has its special worth, which you must find and value. Cherish what is irreplaceable."  

[Lyember]

"Seriously -- and trust me on this -- if you have a sibling you think you don't like: Try anything you can to start liking them again. Get whatever it is out in the open; clear the air. I know I"m only seventeen but, still, life is short. And being mean? It takes energy. As in, you wake up in the morning and you've got only so much energy for the day, and being mean just sucks it right our of you. It's exhausting."

-Gemini Bites by Patrick Ryan

This was a great book and I highly recommend it. I laughed out loud at parts and enjoyed the way it was written.  

[Lyember]

Guy: "Donkey's have the right away."
Kayla: "Most asses think they do."
Guy: "Damn, sunshine, you are the queen of comebacks. Or are all women like you these days?"
Kayla: "Well, ever since we got the vote and decided that bra burning releases too many greenhouse gases, we had to do something else to entertain ourselves."

-Darkness of the Wolf by Bonnie Vanak

Note: This is a short story that was included in the back of the novel The Shadow Wolf.  

[Lyember]

Quotes from "Brighter" in The Black Season by Todd Crawford:

"I know that I come across as someone who thinks they know everything, but I don't need to tell you that that's not the truth. I don't know anything at all. That's the cost of seeking the truth, taking the risk of finding out that anything you know, that you needed to know, was a lie."

"False conceptions of masculinity are only for those uncomfortable with their own sexuality."

"This is why only God is fit to judge, for humans are too blind to see beyond their own prejudice!"

"God is not a bearded man mounted within the clouds, nor a supernatural entity, but an emotion. God was passion, a sense of purpose or desire grander than the mortal capacity. God is love."

Quotes from Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare:

"If no on in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?"

"Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal."

"There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it."

"I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness."

"The spoils of vice are a burdensome responsibility."  

[Otulissa]

Lyember

Quotes from "Brighter" in The Black Season by Todd Crawford:

"I know that I come across as someone who thinks they know everything, but I don't need to tell you that that's not the truth. I don't know anything at all. That's the cost of seeking the truth, taking the risk of finding out that anything you know, that you needed to know, was a lie."

"False conceptions of masculinity are only for those uncomfortable with their own sexuality."

"This is why only God is fit to judge, for humans are too blind to see beyond their own prejudice!"

"God is not a bearded man mounted within the clouds, nor a supernatural entity, but an emotion. God was passion, a sense of purpose or desire grander than the mortal capacity. God is love."

Quotes from Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare:

"If no on in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?"

"Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal."

"There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it."

"I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness."

"The spoils of vice are a burdensome responsibility."

I really like these quotes!