“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. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It does…”— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, amazon.comTagged: Life, Love, Goals, Dream, Longing
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.comTagged: Love, Knowing, Pride
“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. ‘I’m okay’ we say. ‘I’m alright’. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer–it’s a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.comTagged: Question, Answers
“I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren’t worth it in the long run. Th…”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.comTagged: Fall in love, Emoitons, Next
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mocke…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Fight, Alone
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I w…”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Love, Sleep, Respect
“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’…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.comTagged: Falling Apart, Value, Life
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important th…”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Lies, Truth, Honesty
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Living, Weight
“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others”— L. Frank Baum, amazon.comTagged: Judge, Love
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew i…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Storm, Dream, Tough Times
“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.”— Gabriel García Márquez, amazon.comTagged: human, mothers, Birth
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.comTagged: Mad Ones
“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things you’re willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you’ve lost yourself.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Lose Something, Lose Yourself
“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.comTagged: forget, remember, Forever
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will rem…”— Frank Herbert, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Over Thinking
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.comTagged: Looking, Stars
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.comTagged: Believe, impossible
“We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable outcome. We do not think of the outcome which generally comes to pass and is also favourable: we do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.comTagged: lost, found, Fail, Believe
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: heart, Listen, Love
“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 a…”— Harper Lee, amazon.comTagged: Greatest Quotes, Music, Mockingbird