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2026-03-31 04:00:01 UTC

Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

2026-03-24 14:00:01 UTC

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know. - Brom, The Child Thief

2026-03-24 13:00:01 UTC

I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe. - Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

2026-03-24 12:00:01 UTC

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in. - Oliver Sacks

2026-03-24 11:00:01 UTC

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

2026-03-24 10:00:01 UTC

Stop giving your life away to other people. - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

2026-03-24 09:00:01 UTC

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed. - Dorothy Parker

2026-03-24 08:00:01 UTC

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now. - Flannery O'Connor

2026-03-24 07:00:01 UTC

But there's always a first time for everything - Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

2026-03-24 06:00:01 UTC

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell. - Criss Jami, Killosophy

2026-03-24 05:00:02 UTC

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury

2026-03-24 04:00:01 UTC

We all know we're going to die - what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

2026-03-24 03:00:02 UTC

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2026-03-24 02:00:01 UTC

I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself. - Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

2026-03-24 01:00:01 UTC

Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

2026-03-24 00:00:01 UTC

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. - Jane Hamilton

2026-03-23 19:00:04 UTC

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. - Will Cuppy

2026-03-23 18:00:01 UTC

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be. - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

2026-03-23 17:00:01 UTC

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

2026-03-23 16:00:06 UTC

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling. - bell hooks

2026-03-23 13:00:01 UTC

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. - André Breton, What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

2026-03-23 12:00:02 UTC

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes) - Ally Condie, Matched

2026-03-23 11:00:01 UTC

Just give me a second. Attempting to give a fuck...Attempting harder to give a fuck...Sorry, there was an error; fuck not given. - Suzanne Wright, Feral Sins

2026-03-23 08:00:02 UTC

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears. - Thomas S. Monson

2026-03-23 07:00:01 UTC

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism. - Sigmund Freud

2026-03-23 04:00:01 UTC

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with. - Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1

2026-03-23 03:00:01 UTC

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. - Brian Tracy

2026-03-23 02:00:02 UTC

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. - Confucius

2026-03-23 01:00:01 UTC

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life. - Martin Amis

2026-03-23 00:00:01 UTC

What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. - Deepak Chopra, Life After Death: The Burden of Proof

2026-03-22 23:00:02 UTC

So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming and anger management boy? SERIOUSLY?! - Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 2

2026-03-22 22:00:01 UTC

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with. - Gillian Anderson

2026-03-22 21:00:02 UTC

Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

2026-03-22 20:00:01 UTC

They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want! - Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

2026-03-22 19:00:02 UTC

A real relationship is two-way. - Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?

2026-03-22 18:00:01 UTC

There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make - you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the best version of you and lets you be able to best serve those around you.

2026-03-22 17:00:02 UTC

Like time suspended, a wound unmended-- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I'll wonder why. - Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

2026-03-22 15:00:01 UTC

A truth that no one knows is still the truth. - Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn

2026-03-22 14:00:01 UTC

Nothing will work unless you do. - Maya Angelou

2026-03-22 13:00:02 UTC

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine. - Gail Carriger, Soulless

2026-03-22 12:00:01 UTC

I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is pressedAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all dayAnd lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree. - Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

2026-03-22 11:00:01 UTC

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome. - Gemma Malley, The Declaration

2026-03-22 10:00:01 UTC

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. - Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

2026-03-22 09:00:01 UTC

I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life. - Neil Gaiman, Worlds' End

2026-03-22 08:00:01 UTC

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

2026-03-22 07:00:01 UTC

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive. - Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

2026-03-22 06:00:01 UTC

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. - Jim Rohn

2026-03-22 05:00:01 UTC

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2026-03-22 04:00:02 UTC

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain! - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

2026-03-22 03:00:01 UTC

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. - E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

2026-03-22 01:00:01 UTC

Love is a serious mental disease. - Plato, Phaedrus

2026-03-22 00:00:01 UTC

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime. - Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes

2026-03-21 23:00:01 UTC

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. - Walt Disney Company

2026-03-21 22:00:01 UTC

I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

2026-03-21 21:00:02 UTC

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you. - John C. Maxwell, Be a People Person

2026-03-21 19:00:01 UTC

Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man. - Colleen Hoover, Slammed

2026-03-21 18:00:01 UTC

Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least. - Santosh Kalwar

2026-03-21 17:00:02 UTC

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. - Ernesto Che Guevara

2026-03-21 16:00:01 UTC

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2026-03-21 15:00:02 UTC

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

2026-03-21 14:00:01 UTC

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? - Charles M. Schulz

2026-03-21 13:00:01 UTC

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying. - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

2026-03-21 12:00:01 UTC

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft. - Kathryn Stockett, The Help

2026-03-21 11:00:01 UTC

I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money. - Graham Parke, Unspent Time

2026-03-21 10:00:02 UTC

People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. - Steve Maraboli

2026-03-21 09:00:01 UTC

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements. - Nicholas Sparks

2026-03-21 08:00:01 UTC

Shuck it,” Minho responded. “I’m tougher than nails. I could still kick your pony-lovin’ butt with twice this pain.” Thomas shrugged. “I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now. - James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

2026-03-21 07:00:01 UTC

He not busy being born is busy dying. - Bob Dylan

2026-03-21 06:00:01 UTC

Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world - there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.

2026-03-21 05:00:02 UTC

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are. - Cheryl Lacey Donovan, The Ministry of Motherhood

2026-03-21 04:00:01 UTC

I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to. - John Green, Looking for Alaska

2026-03-21 02:00:01 UTC

There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US! - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

2026-03-21 01:00:01 UTC

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives. - Veronica Roth, Divergent

2026-03-21 00:00:01 UTC

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. - Harvey Pekar

2026-03-20 23:00:02 UTC

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. - Bill Watterson

2026-03-20 22:00:01 UTC

Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have. - Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer

2026-03-20 21:00:01 UTC

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

2026-03-20 20:00:01 UTC

2026-03-20 18:00:01 UTC

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be... - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

2026-03-20 16:00:01 UTC

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. - John Cheever

2026-03-20 15:00:02 UTC

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? - Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

2026-03-20 13:00:02 UTC

My rapier wit hides my inner pain. - Cassandra Clare

2026-03-20 12:00:01 UTC

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

2026-03-20 11:00:01 UTC

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

2026-03-20 10:00:01 UTC

Love was the most savage monster of all. - Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

2026-03-20 09:00:01 UTC

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it. - Ellen DeGeneres

2026-03-20 08:00:02 UTC

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. - John F. Kennedy

2026-03-20 07:00:01 UTC

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose. - John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

2026-03-20 06:00:02 UTC

I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret. - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

2026-03-20 05:00:01 UTC

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. - Og Mandino

2026-03-20 04:00:01 UTC

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so. - Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

2026-03-20 03:00:01 UTC

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. - Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

2026-03-20 02:00:01 UTC

I ask the impossible: love me forever.Love me when all desire is gone.Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.When the world in its entirety,and all that you hold sacred advise youagainst it: love me still more.When rage fills you and has no name: love me.When each step from your door to our job tires you--love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.Love me when you're bored--when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,or more pathetic, love me as you always have:not as admirer or judge, but withthe compassion you save for yourselfin your solitude.Love me as you relish your loneliness,the anticipation of your death,mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--and if there is none to recall--imagine one, place me there with you.Love me withered as you loved me new.Love me as if I were forever--and I, will make the impossiblea simple act,by loving you, loving you as I do - Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible

2026-03-20 01:00:02 UTC

I had a dream about you last night... you kept meowing at people and licking yourself it was not unlike you normally. - Nicole McKay, I Had a Dream About You

2026-03-20 00:00:01 UTC

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. - Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

2026-03-19 23:00:02 UTC

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colin. Need I say more? - Chris Rock

2026-03-19 22:00:01 UTC

Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.Absolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing. - Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

2026-03-19 21:00:01 UTC

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. - Edward Verrall Lucas

2026-03-19 20:00:02 UTC

The planet is fine. The people are fucked. - George Carlin

2026-03-19 19:00:01 UTC

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone