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0 Cassandra Clare
- Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
- Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".
- We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
- And to the devil with it if she is!" said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority.""She is my priority!" Will shouted.
- And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.
- There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
- to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
- There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.
- These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
- When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray
- Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.
- You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.
- Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.
- She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?
- She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.
- Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?""Because she loves you," said Valentine.Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.
- Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart
- That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.
- Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
- My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.
1 Suzy Kassem
- Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.
- A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.
- You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.
- Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.
- Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.
- A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.
- Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.
- God is my only leader. Truth is my only sword. Guided only by my conscience, I am a true citizen of the world.
- The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles.
- He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God.
- Fear nothing but your conscience.
- Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.
- Always stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.
- Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.
- There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.
- Truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.
- Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.
- The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.
- Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth.
- Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.
2 William Shakespeare
- Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love.
- This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
- Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
- Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
- Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)
- They do not love that do not show their love.
- And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
- Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?
- I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
- See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!
- For she had eyes and chose me.
- Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy grave.
- For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
- I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
- I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,To die upon the hand I love so well.
- I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
- If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.
- love is blindand lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
- How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
3 Paulo Coelho
- When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
- One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
- So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
- Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
- The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
- You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
- Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
- If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.
- Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
- Love simply is.
- Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.
- In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
- Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
- My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.
- Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
- I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
- Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
- How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
- Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
- We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
4 Carl Sagan
- Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
- She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
- The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
- We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
- A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
- The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
- Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
- The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
- Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.
- Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.
- It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
- For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
- Science is only a Latin word for knowledge
- The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.
- The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
- Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- I don't want to believe. I want to know.
- Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
5 Stephen King
- Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
- Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
- We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
- No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
- What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
- We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
- They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
- In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
- I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.
- Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
- The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
- To write is human, to edit is divine.
- Quiet people have the loudest minds.
- That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
- Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
- FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
- I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
- Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
- Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.