Lauren Oliver quote: "And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own."

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE

For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

I learned there were lots of realities in the world.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Fuck the pack. I gave them fifteen years of my life. I fought for them, bled for them, and the momen...
ILONA ANDREWS

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my peop...
INDIRA GANDHI

For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or futur...
EUGENE O'NEILL

I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for ...
EMMYLOU HARRIS

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

I am wired to live joy in all ways. I let my being be healed and tended by the high vibration of joy...
AMY LEIGH MERCREE

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism f...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL

My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
MARCIA CLARK

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

I am grateful in life and online. My gratitude raises my vibration and enhances my joy.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro...
ANATOLE FRANCE

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung....
FRANZ KAFKA

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation ...
FRANZ KAFKA

A split second later, my life flashed before my eyes, and I came to one important conclusion about i...
DARYNDA JONES

I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like securi...
ANDRé GIDE

For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully kn...
JENNIFER NETTLES

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enl...
WAYNE DYER

I am joyfully responsible for myself, my own happiness, and creating a joyful life.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE

Something clenched in my chest, and for a moment, the whole world narrowed down to the green of his ...
RICHELLE MEAD

I helped deliver the baby and everything. That was probably the most exciting moment of my life, ......
BRYAN CLAY

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwis...
MARYUM AHSAM

I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what ...
KEVIN DURANT

The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion fo...
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. T...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I live my life one weekend at time, for those two days nothing else matters, I am FREE.
ANONYMOUS

Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER

He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY

My passions, when roused, are intense, and, so long as I am activated by them, nothing equals my imp...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.
LONI LOVE

My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spe...
RICK ASTLEY

You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ

Life is always uncertain. No one knows what's in there. But now my life is everywhere, I would just ...
HAPPY POSITIVITY BLANKLY AHEAD

I was hoping for new female vocalist and that's all I was really hanging my hopes on. This is a monu...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to m...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA

Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear...
AVIJEET DAS

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
BARRY MANILOW

I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing tha...
ALEXANDER CHEE

I am a hypocrite when it comes to being a conformist. My values and beliefs are part of my foundatio...
BONNIE ZACKSON KOURY

Time is life.
Time for birth, time for death.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

Never judge a person how he died, but how he lived.
RUDOLF JEROME RAGAY

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.
KATHERINE HEIGL

When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can...
LAUREN OLIVER

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ...
C. JOYBELL C.

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison d...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ

Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in m...
JAMES JOYCE

I am a beautiful, capable woman, courageously creating and living my life with joy and authenticity!
COLLEEN LAUKKA

I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN

I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW

Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the ti...
BJORK

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my li...
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, eve...
, VLOGBROTHERS, MY NAME IS JOHN GREEN. AND I AM A NERD., 10-30-07

I am. I can. I will. The way my life is working I'm constantly liberating my own experience and free...
THEE AMAZING GRACE

There is no moment of my life when you are not a part of me; you hold my heart; you guard my soul; ...
ROBERT SEXTON

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up be...
JORGE LUIS BORGES

I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake...
JAMES ALTUCHER

Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my...
FERNANDO PESSOA

INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, and loving in order to find and feel the de...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up th...
KARAN JOHAR

I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I ...
JAMAL LEWIS

To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE

All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with me...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
LADY GAGA

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm that my life has been, on the whol...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and peop...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stan...
JOHN MAYER

I am a magnet to my desires and I can attract anything I want into my life for I am good enough...
PHILIP T. M.

My heart pounds against my chest. Not because I'm nervous. Not even because I want her worse that I'...
COLLEEN HOOVER

For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever...
RIC FLAIR

Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?
SOHEIR KHASHOGGI

teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER

And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.

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And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.

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