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“They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever… and the other one scared me out of my mind.”

Frederik Pohl book Gateway

Source: Gateway

Love, Life, Chance

“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.”

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)

World, Waiting, Dead

“There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

Soul, History, Decision

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”

Ellen Goodman (1941) American journalist and writer

Attributed

Love, People, Forgiveness, Parting

“I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don’t count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Learning, Box

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Love, Art

“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”

Philip K. Dick book Counter-Clock World

Source: Counter-Clock World

People, Lie

“I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers.
One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Men, Idea, Cooking

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Way

“Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Beauty, Beauty

“All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.”

Michael Crichton book The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

Life, People

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Thinking, Personality

“Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

World

“Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God, War, Home

“There are other people who have it a lot worse”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

People

“You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won’t but you can’t define yourself by their opinions.”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: Sweet Trouble

People, Personality

“It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

“Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Light

“By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Men, World, Way, Learning

“It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

“I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Suffering

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You

Pain, Way, Forgiveness, Hurt

“Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.”

Andre Agassi book Open. An Autobiography

Source: Open

Feeling, Help, Perfection

“Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Death

“He looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Boy, Parent, Housing

“Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have…" or "Sorry, but I just didn't…" They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

People

“By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.”

Thomas Browne (1605–1682) English polymath

“Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Phythagoras, the other the division of a line in extreme and mean ratio. The first we can compare to a mass of gold; the other we may call a precious jewel.”

Johannes Kepler book Mysterium Cosmographicum

As quoted by Karl Fink, Geschichte der Elementar-Mathematik (1890) translated as A Brief History of Mathematics https://books.google.com/books?id=3hkPAAAAIAAJ (1900, 1903) by Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith. Also see Carl Benjamin Boyer, A History of Mathematics (1968). <br class="br">Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)

“when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Six - "In which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in".
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

People, Thinking

“Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.”

Walker Percy book Love in the Ruins

Source: Love in the Ruins

Men, Knowledge, Help

“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other… except through faith.”

Stephen King book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

Faith

“There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

“Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

Love

“Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Beauty, Game

“On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog.
So there you go.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Love, Dogs, Flying

“Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

People

“Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: The Analects

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Source: The Complete Essays

Quotes

“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

November, 1933
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Truth

“People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.”

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

People, Secret

“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

Men

“Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other”

Michael Morpurgo book War Horse

Source: War Horse

People, Problem

“Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!"
Fang: "But we're grounded."
Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Question

“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Love, Personality

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Love

“You’re presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I’ve changed my mind.”
“You see, that’s just it.” There he was again, moving into my space. “I think you like the ‘other things.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking, Change

“I can't blame her. but
wonder why she's here with
me? where are the other
guys? how can you be
lucky? having someone the
others have abandoned?”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Guy

“Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

People, Problem

“If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph (2011)

People

“Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 26
Context: Harry Dresden: But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn’t about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn’t about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others—even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

Faith

“the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

Life, World, Joy

“Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Love

“If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

“The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Death, Children

“So,’ Nico said, ‘since we’re going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air.’ Percy’s smile wavered. ‘What do you mean?”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Smile, Thinking

“me: you know what sucks about love?
o. w. g.: what?
me: that it's so tied to the truth.

I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good…. Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Love, Truth, Way

“I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

Men, Sex, Thinking

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”

Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist

"A Time for Moral Courage", Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
Variant: Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courageous

“A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.”

Tawni O'Dell book Sister Mine

Source: Sister Mine

Life

“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.”

Jamie Lee Curtis (1958) actress, author

People

“I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Nausea (1938)
Source: Nausea, The Wall and Other Stories

Life, Time

“Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Summer in the City

Love, People, Spring, Flowers

“Tiger Lily drifted down underneath herself. This was her one gift more than any other. Silently, she nodded. "Yes. Everything is more than okay.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Oh My Goth

Life, People, Tear, Baby

“Hello?" Isabelle called from the other side. "Simon, is your diva moment over? I need to talk to Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 152
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Context: THINK BIG means opening our horizons, reaching for new possibilities in our lives, being open to whatever God has in store for us on the road ahead.
T=TALENT : If you recognize your talents, use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, you will rise to the top of your field.
H=HONEST : If we live by the rule of honesty and accept our problems, we can go far down the road of achievement.
I=INSIGHT : If we observe and reflect and commit ourselves to giving our best, we will come out on top.
N=NICE : If we are nice to others, other respond to us in the same way, and we can give our best for each other.
K=KNOWLEDGE : If we make every attempt to increase our knowledge in order to use it for human go, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
B=BOOKS : If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
I=IN-DEPTH LEARNING : If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
G=GOD : If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

World, Knowledge, Help