It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun
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Related Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never let you know how much you hurt me No, I will never tell you The lasts few m... HENRY ROLLINS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY God dropped a spark down into everyone,
And if we find and fan it to a blaze,
It'll spring up ... JOHN MASEFIELD You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab... JOHN GREEN Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Henry Ward Beecher. HENRY WARD BEECHER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN And they say She's in the class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been that way since eigh... ED SHEERAN Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Abril é o mês mais cruel, gera lilases da terra morta, mistura a memória e o desejo, mistura raí... JULIA GREGSON Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto JULIA GREGSON I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... LEMONY SNICKET When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember i... JODI PICOULT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi... AULIQ ICE All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. HENRY WARD BEECHER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki... A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY Status quos are made to be broken. RAY A. DAVIS This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Let the wind blow, lad Let fall the deep snow, Let the stars fall, lad we'll answer ... JENNIFER A. NIELSEN The worst things in life come free to us ED SHEERAN Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Farming is the oldest profession on earth SOTONYE ANGA He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned ... REBECCA HARRIS You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN I have to get out. VERONICA ROTH
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a complex tool. And he that inve... HENRY WARD BEECHER How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and t... HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and th... HENRY WARD BEECHER No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. HENRY WARD BEECHER Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. HENRY WARD BEECHER He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and
will find the flaw when he may hav... HENRY WARD BEECHER Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice HENRY WARD BEECHER Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. HENRY WARD BEECHER The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic. HENRY WARD BEECHER Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. HENRY WARD BEECHER Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause HENRY WARD BEECHER The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qua... HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the othe... HENRY WARD BEECHER A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. HENRY WARD BEECHER We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. HENRY WARD BEECHER Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. HENRY WARD BEECHER The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. HENRY WARD BEECHER Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. HENRY WARD BEECHER The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. HENRY WARD BEECHER It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he ... HENRY WARD BEECHER There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. HENRY WARD BEECHER The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble o... HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. HENRY WARD BEECHER Faith is spiritualized imagination. HENRY WARD BEECHER The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the ... HENRY WARD BEECHER The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea... HENRY WARD BEECHER The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. HENRY WARD BEECHER To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. HENRY WARD BEECHER Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri... HENRY WARD BEECHER The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. HENRY WARD BEECHER Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like
clocks, they must be occasionally ... HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o... HENRY WARD BEECHER Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse... HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo... HENRY WARD BEECHER A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ... HENRY WARD BEECHER The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h... HENRY WARD BEECHER A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. HENRY WARD BEECHER It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ... HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows. HENRY WARD BEECHER "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th... HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and
animals. Some seem to smile; some hav... HENRY WARD BEECHER As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers,
we shall never have a garden withou... HENRY WARD BEECHER The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou... HENRY WARD BEECHER You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. HENRY WARD BEECHER It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y... HENRY WARD BEECHER There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds... HENRY WARD BEECHER A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ... HENRY WARD BEECHER The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. HENRY WARD BEECHER Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. HENRY WARD BEECHER Work is not a curse, but drudgery is! HENRY WARD BEECHER In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things... HENRY WARD BEECHER