Insightful Quotes
Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.
The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.
I am not interested in what is pleasant. I'm interested in what's useful.
The trouble with Lucious, " he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone, " is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.
The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action,
You dare quarrel with me Doerwyne?She wrinkled her nose. "It's not quarreling to express an opinion'""Women don't have opinions.""Then I must be a man, because I have plenty.
The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.
Friendship Quote of the Week:"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"…Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President and World Leader
Never place someone so high on a pedestal that if they should fall... you get crushed.
She had married him in order to be safe from the chaos. He had married her, she now understood, for the same reason. They were the last two people on earth who could make anyone safe from anything.
In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.
The map is not the territory, " Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.
Change happens internally. That's where books go too. Therein lies the power.
Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?""No sir.""That bothers me.
He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window -- universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years.
Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.
Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” —
Vision attained through mindful thinking, imagination and purpose reveals both the forest and the trees – as well as a path forward.
A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.
Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn’t mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.
The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.
You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces
Magic, " her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same.
I was drowning that times, but when I saw those eyes of yours, my body learned how to swim.
Life is not about how long you live or how much you experience. Life is about how you choose to live it and what you experience.
Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.