Thought Provoking Quotes

There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a label is better. It can confer a sense of hope and direction. (interview with Allen Frances)

~ Jon Ronson

It's better to lose something than never to have had

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, I want novels,' said Tessa. 'Or poetry. Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.' Will's eyes glittered. 'I think we may have a cope of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland about somewhere.' Tessa wrinkled her nose. 'Oh, that's for little children, isn't it?' she said. I never liked it much-seemed like so much nonsense.' Will's eyes were very blue. 'There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

~ Cassandra Clare

Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough.

~ Rainbow Rowell

There was some little local controversy too, about a fundraising effort called Suzie's Closet--folks getting together in church basements to make care packages for the plantations--blankets and candy bars.....first they interviewed a local advocate for the homeless, asking why our attention shouuld be down there, when there's so much suffering right here at home....it was the usual stuff --all the new stories and just the old stories again.

~ Ben H. Winters

I'm avoiding tomorrow, by spending more time in today.

~ Ellie Elisabeth

You either WIN or you LEARN. Either way, you WIN!

~ Shay Dawkins

Don't fall in love with me. Not unless you're ready for a God damn fight. I don't do fragility, or friction and fairy tales. I want you to be irrational because I'm irrational. Be bold. Speak your mind. I want your wildfires and obscenities. I want your passion and priorities. Protect what's yours. I'll defend what's ours. Let us fight against routines and bad habits, and anything typical. And don't you dare quit. Not on us, not on yourself. God help the person who threatens us. Forgive me when I let you down, but don't overlook it, or allow it. We're all insecure about something. Show me yours. We're all terrified sometimes. Turn to me. People come in and out of my life so often and easily that I just look for a love that stays. I don't mind your blemishes or scars, I have a few of my own. Don't be another flash in the pan. Falling for me will be easy. Staying with me will be impossible. But you deserve a love that most people don't believe in anymore.

~ J. Raymond

When I asked her if she was afraid to fall in love, she damn near doubled over. Afraid? My heart has been through hell and back. Yet it never quits, refuses to rest, gives without asking in return, and is deeper than the deepest sea. It's love, my dear, that should fear me. That night my heart was signed, by my one of a kind.

~ J. Raymond

The number of secrets I receive is in inverse proportion to the number of secrets anyone expects me to have of my own. And this is the real source of my dismay. Being told secrets is not - never has been - a sign that I belong or that I matter. It is quite the opposite: confirmation of my irrelevance.

~ Zoë Heller

Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

~ Flannery O'connor

A superior brain without the saving essence of godliness may turn against the human race and drench the world in blood, or worse, it may loose ideas into the earth which will continue to curse mankind for centuries after it has turned to dust again.

~ A.w. Tozer

Accept who you are. Don’t leave me, Willow. We are all broken, that’s how the light shines through. - Rhydian

~ Mira Monroe

You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.

~ Sarah Benson

You’re more capable than you know. Deep down, you have… a magick inside you that you’ve tucked away. That needs release. It’s a connection to who you are and what you are capable of. - Evan

~ Mira Monroe

Sometimes money is the only thing that people have and they feel threatened when they think they are losing it.

~ Mika Chanell

The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.

~ James Weldon Johnson

On whose authority, who gives the right to religion, the law, medicine, the others, to choose on my behalf but without consulting me, the way, the place and the time I am allowed to die?

~ Alexandros Velios

I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.

~ Flannery O'connor

Willow, there is a lot of prejudice around magickal families. I think your terms are snobby and over privileged brats. Whether it be light dark or anything between, they will have it measured in percentages like DNA. For Wiccan culture, it’s about purity above all. One with nature, the goddess, and the spirit. It’s not that different with other magickal beings. - Aiden Warrington

~ Mira Monroe

I remember stories. I connect the dots and then out of that comes a story. And the dots that don't fit into the story just slide away, maybe. Like when you spot a constellation. You look up and you don't want to see all the stars. All the stars just look like the big...mess that they are. But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

~ John Green

Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]

~ Isaac Asimov

I am someone who has always run from difficulty, and it dawns on me that I don't have to go on that way. We write ourselves certain parts and then keep playing them as if we have no choice. But a tardy person can become a punctual one, if she chooses. You don't have to keep being the thing you have become. It is never too late.

~ Rachel Joyce

People were funny about things they couldn't see. If they couldn't see it, it wasn't there. Or at the least, it didn't affect them. But the world didn't work that way, did it? There were things all around that you couldn't see, and these things had power.

~ Martha Brockenbrough

Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

~ Lydia M. Child

Sweet and savory, it was the honey of our existence, DNA with the message: This is who I am.

~ Atom Yang

Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.

~ S.l. Northey

Broken wings don't mend that way, the way you think broken wings do. Once that wing has taken time to mend, that bird has forgotten how to fly

~ S.l. Northey

WAR CHILD is the true story of Magdalena (Leni) Janic whose name appears on The Welcome Wall at Sydney's Darling Harbour. The story spans 100 years starting in pre WWII Nazi Germany and ends in the suburbs of Adelaide. It's a window into what life was like for a young illegitimate German girl growing up in poverty, coping with ostracism, bullying, abuse and dispossession as society was falling down around her and she becomes a refugee. But it's also a story of a woman's unconditional love for her family, the sacrifices she made and secrets she kept to protect them. Her ultimate secret was only revealed in a bizarre twist after her death and much to her daughter's (and author) surprise involved her. A memorable tear-jerker! A sad cruel story told with so much love.

~ Annette Janic

You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

~ Sonya Hartnett

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

~ John Ruskin

We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.

~ Carl Sagan

Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.

~ April Bryan

Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life.

~ Kami Garcia

Bullying is wrong. It is not okay to bully others back because they bullied you.We learned our lesson with Don the Goat

~ T.r. Durphy

He said, You know, whoever hurt youdies every time they look in the mirror.That is how they pay.She crossed her arms.And one day, Maria, you will die too,but there's no reason for you to dieevery day.

~ Toby Barlow

The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't anymore. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who grew up with TV and movies and now the internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script

~ Gillian Flynn