Category Archives: Quotes
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If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
-Moliere
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
-Confucius
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” ― William Goldman, William Goldman: Four Screenplays
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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
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“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.” ― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
-Tennessee Williams
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“Romance is the sweetening of the soul
With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.”
— Wole Soyinka
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To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
-Phyllis Theroux
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” —Winston Churchill
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
The Hipster Lit Flow Chart
On Goodreads, there is all kinds of readers: Romance, Sci Fi, Armchair Sailors, you name it. This month they decided to focus on an interesting subset of our gigantic and diverse community—The Hipsters. After analyzing the data, and admittedly, taking some editorial liberties, we’ve determined a few things. The life of the hipster is hard. Between worrying the band you love is about to go big and wondering whether it’s finally time to wash your raw denim jeans, you don’t have a lot of time to think about what to read next. To make matters worse, now that you’ve raced through his collected essays, Both Flesh and Not, you’ve run out of David Foster Wallace books. That’s where Goodreads comes in. Behold our hipster lit flow chart! Answer a few simple questions, and we will hook you up with your next favorite book. Life should always be this easy.
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“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man’avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
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“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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“For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays
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“That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”
— Hermann Hesse
From Gertrude
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“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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“The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
― Philip Barry, The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three acts
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“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love
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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
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“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen
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“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
From Gift from the Sea
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
-Anais Nin
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live Video Chat with Jeaniene Frost, Today at 5 pm ET/2 pm PT!
Join us on goodreads today at 5pm ET/2pm PT for a live video chat with bestselling authorJeaniene Frost. We’ll be discussing her newest book, Once Burned, the first in her latest series Night Prince. Don’t miss your chance to ask this bestselling author a question!
For More info: http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/376-live-video-chat-with-jeaniene-frost-today-at-5-pm-et-2-pm-pt
