Stephanie's favorite quotes

"Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

tags: life

"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else."
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)

tags: truth

66 people liked it

"What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?"
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men)

16 people liked it

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."
— M. Scott Peck

6 people liked it

"We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.""
— M. Scott Peck

13 people liked it

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. "
— M. Scott Peck

5 people liked it

"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world."
— Gary Zukav (The Seat of the Soul)

2 people liked it

"When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

22 people liked it

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: experience

45 people liked it

"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: change

44 people liked it

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)

tags: realization

27 people liked it

"Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction."
— Eckhart Tolle

15 people liked it

"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: artists

17 people liked it

"Man made God in his own image..."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

tags: inspirational

9 people liked it

"What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself."
— Eckhart Tolle

12 people liked it

"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
— Eckhart Tolle

9 people liked it

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. "
— Augusten Burroughs (Magical Thinking: True Stories)

462 people liked it

"Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face."
— Augusten Burroughs

tags: confessions, humor, magical, thinking

104 people liked it

"My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way."
— Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors: A Memoir)

48 people liked it

"We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover."
— Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors)

31 people liked it

"Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it."
— David Sedaris

tags: humor, perception, retardation

415 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy

1,719 people liked it

"On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind."
— David Sedaris

tags: christmas, holidays, santa-claus

18 people liked it

"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."
— David Sedaris (Naked)

tags: changing, others

176 people liked it

"I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer."
— David Sedaris

tags: animals, deer, possessions

25 people liked it

"Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky"
— John Grogan (Marley & Me Illustrated Edition: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog)

37 people liked it

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life

850 people liked it

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
— Stephen King (Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay)

tags: god, humor, religion

893 people liked it

"I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
— Stephen King

tags: dark-humor

249 people liked it

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."
— Stephen King (Dolores Claiborne)

tags: bitch

180 people liked it

"None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

349 people liked it

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

tags: evil, good

164 people liked it

"Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth"
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

32 people liked it

"His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet."
— Anne Rice (Taltos)

8 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity

4,808 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity

3,784 people liked it

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational

1,468 people liked it

"Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: flirting, humor

749 people liked it

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

tags: happiness

1,660 people liked it

"Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: humor

434 people liked it

"It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: lies, truth-

345 people liked it

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: hermione

729 people liked it

"Accio Brain!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

230 people liked it

"...nudge, nudge, wink, wink."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: humor