Thoughtful Quotes

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

Patrick Ness

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Patrick Ness

I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious.

M.F. Moonzajer

Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to the present, held together by new connections, in a complex and ingenious pattern in which every phenomenon I saw was capable of evoking a memory which unleashed small landslides of feeling in me, some with a known source, others without. The people I encountered came from towns I had been to, they knew other people I had met, it was a network, and it was a tight mesh. But when I moved to Stockholm this flaring up of memories became rarer and rarer, and one day it ceased altogether. That is, I could still remember; what happened was that the memories no longer stirred anything in me. No longing, no wish to return, nothing. Just the memory, and a barely perceptible hint of an aversion to anything that was connected with it.

Karl Ove Knausgård

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

Steve Martin

People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.

Maggie Stiefvater

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

David Mitchell

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass....

Beth Revis

He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.

Toni Morrison

Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.

Bryant McGill

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

Bradley Bowman

Writing is like talking to yourself, just in a way that makes it look like you're not crazy!

Mary Kate

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

Dave Barry

Always keep fighting

Jared Padalecki

To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded world of ours, the refusal to believe in gardens leaves most of us ref of roses.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's strange how money seems to silence a neighborhood," I say quietly. "On my street, where no one has money, it's so loud. Sirens blaring, people shouting, car doors slamming, stereos thumping. There's always someone, somewhere, making noise.

Colleen Hoover

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap! I promise you! It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart, be thoughtful, and be generous.

Ashton Kutcher

Advantages never comes free. You have to create it the way you want it!

Ashish Patel

Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Lead looked to his hand and saw sparkling chunks of glass in the cracks of the road. He saw ants running around the cracks, infinitely small. His blood ran into the cracks, creating rivers for the industrious ants to perplex over. Lead smiled at the creatures, for he understood that there is no difference between them and us in their wanderings and labor.

Nathan Yocum

...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

Donald Miller

It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.

Matthew S. Williams

How can you know if you’re normal when you’re always alone? You have no one to compare yourself to. I mean, I have my mom and dad, and I’m pretty normal compared to them. But then… a lot of people are normal compared to them

Anne Pfeffer

It was my kingdom. And when enemies attack your kingdom, you don’t flee. You show them why it’s your kingdom.

Olan Rogers

If you knew in advance that something momentous and terrible would happen you’d make an effort to imprint it all in your mind, wouldn’t you, every detail. But of course you don’t know. And perhaps that’s just as well.

Kathy Shuker

The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and over, till you finally understand: Watch out for that step! Everything that's wrong with us, if we're too selfish or too Yessir, Nosir, Three bags full sir or too anything, that's a hidden step. Either you suffer the consequences of not noticing your fault forever or, one day, you do notice it, and fix it. Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps.There are always more.

David Mitchell

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

Adi Alsaid

It's the problem with mistakes, they tend to linger.

Maria V. Snyder

He thought the library door would never open again, but that he would be left to live out the rest of his life rooted to the spot on the library carpet, afraid to move a muscle lest the house fall upon his shoulders. He deliberately shrugged them and shuffled his feel just to prove to himself that it could be done.

Mary Balogh

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln

I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired.

Kamand Kojouri

There is never a right time. Except the time we make right.

Richmond Akhigbe

Why are we so afraid to die? Are we concerned about the reckoning we may have to face on the other side? Or does the thought of our nonexistence terrify us? Perhaps neither. Perhaps what we fear most is no longer being able to do the things we love.

Fabrizio Paterlini

Some look at your strength and see an opportunity and some look at your weaknesses and see an opportunity .

irrfan ishaq

Pfft, aren’t you optimistic,” my mouth twists into an ugly grimace as I clench my fists. My throat dries from the rushed breathing as my vision blurs, tears drying, my blood pounds in my ears. “Thinking as if this shit storm will ever blow over. Everyone’s got their scars and stories. This is yours.”Though I’ll always be haunted, memories always resurface.

Jocelyn White

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

François Lelord

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.

Louise Erdrich

the lonely mind wanders.the happy mind goes.the weary mind travels.the thoughtful mind flows.

Barry DeCarli

Every morning and every night, I pause for just a minute and express my gratitude for all that I have in my life and all that I have experienced.

M. James Airey

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

Jennifer Ott

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert

It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A happy soul in a happy body.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Time flies with you

Mitch Albom

There is seldom any rational reason for having regreats about past deeds or events. Because the past does not exist in any other way than in your memory.When you recognise this lack of reality, you can be calm.

Paul Wilson

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.

Gary Hopkins

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

Gary Hopkins

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

V.C. Andrews

Jude used to try to make me laugh, and when I'd crack a smile he'd keep the joke going , like breath on an ember, making it grow into a fit of giggles that'd echo around the whole forest and make all the birds in the trees quiet.

Stephanie Oakes

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

Ian Somerhalder

Most people, by the time they get old, have grown tough little shells around their hearts. Babies, like little Laila, start off with tender, loving, trusting hearts, but gradually, gradually, they learn to protect themselves and, as the years go by, grow tougher and tougher layers. Look at this! The outside layers of the artichoke are so tough they aren’t even worth eating but they become more and more tender as you come closer to the heart. These tough outer layers stop you feeling so much, so people walk around with hard little hearts that no one can touch. Of course there are some people who don’t have a choice – they just never learn to protect themselves...now that can be both a blessing and a burden.

Sita Brahmachari

He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep.

Amanda Coplin

It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.

Morgan Matson

Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk, when you could not even walk.

Akash Lakhotia

It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

Lauren Miller

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

Anaïs Nin

The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children notice everything and will follow your example.

Shannon L. Alder

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