Jennifer L. Armentrout

Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.

Why are you such an ass?" The words came out before I could think twice.
Everyone has to excel at something, right?
Well, you're doing a great job.

My palms itched to have a close encounter of the bitch-slap kind with his face.

I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect. His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what they have? Their beauty is only passing. It's just a shell hiding nothing but shadows and emptiness.

I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you?

Remind me, he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?

Amy Bloom

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

Thomas Mann II

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

I feel sorry for every Therapist, Psychologist, and Psychiatrist I've ever met. I know I've put thoughts in their mind they will never forget.

Before I die I'd love to see my name on the Famous Bi Polar list I'm not ashamed of my Illness I believe most of my talent comes from it.

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

A vivid Imagination is awesome a Manic Imagination is a curse.

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real.

I'm tired of the whole anti-gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks.

The greatest communication barrier known to man is the lack of the common core of experience "When’s the last time you had a Manic Episode Doctor?”

Saying I don't take my meds because they make me feel funny. Is like cannibals saying they don't eat clowns because the taste funny.

Stephen Richards

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.

To dream by night is to escape your life. To dream by day is to make it happen.

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.

Alex Haley

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. 
It is learned behavior toward persons with 
dissimilar physical characteristics.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.

Chad Harbach

You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.

So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.

Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.

She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.

It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.

Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong.

Martin Heidegger II

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Mortimer J. Adler

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

. . . a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.