“I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.” MenSelfPressesFingersConvictionObsessionButtonsLackingBlindedSelf Destruct Author:Neal Shusterman
“How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?” ChoicesFiguresVariousRight ThingShade Author:Neal Shusterman
“C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.” IfsThinkingKidsHurtMinutesIt Hurts Author:Robert Asprin
“It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsFirstsHumansWellsCompanyStrangeFirst TimeMiseryDrag Author:Neal Shusterman
“When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.” IfsWayFeelsTryingHeartStatesFactsCan DoLevelsEmotionStudyEffectsChangedReflectionMereGlassesBelieverFirmObserversOpen HeartMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Neal Shusterman
“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.” WorldWritingMindArtEyeSpaceDistanceCommunicateInventionTime And SpaceAbsentUnbornEnablingConversesThrough The EyesGreat Inventions Author:Abraham Lincoln
“In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.” MightCertainThreeGods WillCupsThree TimesGethsemane Book:Joyful Christian Source: Joyful Christian
“Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.” PeopleGivingBelieveLooksMeanSaidFacesAnswersStaringFogSnakes Author:Robert Jordan
“Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.” ChildrenI CanSometimesBeautifulNamesWaterBrokenRiversSomething BeautifulWellspringWater Of Life Author:Linda Hogan
“The Lord will grant to any honest person who earnestly seeks to know the truth one manifestation by the Holy Ghost; but he is not entitled to repeated manifestations. After such a revelation is given, he is to act, for the Holy Ghost cannot be appealed to for continued manifestations until after baptism and the gift has been bestowed.” KnowsPersonsHas BeensGivenLordHonestHolyGhostManifestationRevelationsGrantsEntitledHoly GhostBaptismHonest Person Author:Joseph Fielding Smith