Thoughtful Quotes

“You probably have someone in your life whom you'd do something stupid for.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Why do all dead people become heroes in Dauntless? Why do we need them to? Maybe they’re the only ones we can find in a faction of corrupt leaders, competitive peers, and cynical instructors. Dead people can be our heroes because they can’t disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“When one can only do one thing well, one likes to keep up one’s reputation in that thing.”
― Henry Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines By Henry Rider Haggard with an Introduction By Roger Lancelyn Green and Illustrated By Will Nickless

“They were not good people—they had too much money to have ever been good people”
― Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar

“How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last?”
― Kae Tempest

“If someone adores your for your chaos. What's the best way to honor that love? If they treasure your ruthlessness. If they celebrate your anarchy. If they love you as you are. Do you think they'd be dancing in the streets if you gave up the very essence that is the core of your being that made them fall for you?”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon

“With enough communication between spouses, anyone could have a happy marriage. Between friends, a happy friendship.”
― Oliver Bestul, Capricorn

“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.”
― Wells H,G, The Time Machine

“We must say, "I have no past. I am beginning here and now”
― Kim Stanley Robinson

“A gun safety instructor once told me that if you pull the trigger you’re going to create a hole somewhere. So, in the choices that we make in life we would be wise to consider the fact that we’re going to create a hole. And therefore we might want to consider where that hole should be and where it shouldn’t. But maybe the most significant thing that we need to consider is that most triggers never need to be pulled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“আমি জানতাম না আমি কী করতে যাচ্ছি, কিন্তু এটা জানতাম যে আমি কী করবো না।”
― Tony Hsieh

“No importa lo que pasó, el pasado es y ya no importa”
― C.S. Lewis, C S Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia: The Complete Collection

“Remember, the other half of starting a fire is putting it out.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The world mystifies when you stare up through falling snow. Even standing still, you can soar. Even alone, you are surrounded. Even mundane, you find magic. I’ve spent my life chasing the fantastical, yet everything I’ve ever imagined can be casually matched by someone tilting their head up so they can experience it. The soft. Settling. Aspiration.

Of snow on an otherwise ordinary day.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Sea glass graces the shore, carrying with it secrets from the waves visible within its transformation.”
― Julia Reesor, Sea Glass Secrets

“Everywhere you were, I think, is somewhere I can return
to. Everywhere you were is somewhere I can choose to hold on to until I’m
ready to let go. Our year may be drawing to a close in my telling, but I can
still return to all of it. I can still show you all that is left of us. I can find my
way back to you.”
― How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica

“A child laying his head on his mother's lap. A friend looking for any sort of reassuring contact to remind him that he was a living being. A good person, no matter what they made him do.”
― sarah j maas

“we are meant to live lives that are connected to beginnings and to endings”
― Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional

“I am the product of countless other ideas that have incubated inside me. Over many years, they entered my mind through my senses, blown in from elsewhere because I left the shutters to my mind wide open. Some took root because they suited the soil; others did not find purchase and were quickly forgotten. There are even a few I can entirely call my own.”
― Rian Hughes, XX

“You only appreciate the sunshine after you’ve stood in the pouring rain.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Laughter is the lubricant that keeps the brain from getting constipated and the antifreeze that thaws a frozen heart.”
― Jane Boulware, Worthy: From Corn Fields to Corner Office of Microsoft

“It’s a school-turned-infirmary filled with wounded bodies and souls and lives, and yet there are people so full of bravery and hope and determination it makes you hold a mirror to your own self when you’re alone.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“We go through so much trauma in this world. At least we get to die.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“A thoughtful person makes us think too! A dancing person makes us want to dance too! It seems like a human being is a being that cannot be motivated on its own and always needs motivation from something!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Regret is a choice birthed by choices.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Before you ‘grab a bull by the horns’ you might wish to remember that horns were designed for something other than grabbing and that the fifteen-hundred pounds on the other side of those horns would be more than happy to show you what that is.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To walk in the woods is not to run from life. Rather, it’s to observe how life should be done in order to build a culture that won’t require any running.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Para não ver o céu dobra-se sobre livros exactos”
― Raul Brandão, Humus

“Jesus didn’t spare the disciples’ feelings when He pointed out
their deficiencies. Most believers today will pray for the sick, then
conclude, “If it be God’s will.” It doesn’t take much faith to pray that
way because it puts the onus on God. It takes a different level of
faith to confront a demon and be confident about the outcome.”
― Neil T. Anderson, The Bondage Breaker: Overcoming *Negative Thoughts *Irrational Feelings *Habitual Sins

“If you let silence do the talking, the fool will drown in the words that they’re certain to fill it with.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough