ZizzFeed Quotes

"If kindness wins, accountability rules."

Galit Breen

Inspiration

I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.

Silas House

Inspiration

You tempt the devil,” he whispered then laid his head down and sighed. “Angels always do.

Bijou Hunter

"Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief."

Anonymous

Inspiration

Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever.

Author

Inspiration

I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.

Sonya Hartnett

"And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?Her resilience ?Her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? Is that true or is it just a consolation ? A shifting of responsibility? And if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?"

Ahdaf Soueif

"The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy."

Anonymous

Inspiration

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

Author

"A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché."

Khaled Hosseini

"Clara Winter,' he said. 'You are a word person and don't ever forget it.'He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people."

Alison McGhee

Inspiration

Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

Christine de Pizan

Inspiration

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jose Bergamin

"If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success."

Sharon Weil

Inspiration

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

Steve Irwin

Inspiration

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

"I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines."

Anonymous

"Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension."

Unknown

Inspiration

What I’m starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They’re accepting you for who they think you are.

Kaiylah Muhammad

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."

Andy Warhol

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