Every time I read a book I write quotes to my notebook, but also when I come across some good random quote I put it in as well. Just recently I filled up one of my “quote notebooks” so now I’ll post all the quotes from this notebook that are not “book specific” but instead spread throughout this notebook randomly. Not all books I read are in English, as you can see in the image, but I’ll be posting just those here…

And the day you finally decide to love will be the day that I have given up on chasing you.

Everyone is expendable.

The girl changed you and you don’t even know it.

Maybe God has a bigger plan for me then I have for myself.

There is no such thing as an ex con.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand that there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken them to hurt yourself putting in back together.

They say that people come in your life for a reason.

Enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Love till you hate, strong do you break.

You’ll learn, she said. Though it did not sound as an encouragement.

What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box? By pressing the button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world. Someone you don’t know. Would you still push the button?!

When I do good I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

How much I missed simply because I was afraid of missing.

If I had a list of all the people that might come to visit me in prison, your name would be at the bottom. Somewhere below Jesus Christ and Scooby Doo.

The love is nothing, to be loved is something, to love and be loved is everything.

You’re just jealous because the voices are talking to me.

Pain is temporary pride is forever!

She’s the kind of woman that would rather go to sleep then to tap out.

If God made everything then he must be from China.

You don’t love a woman because she’s beautiful, she’s beautiful because you love her.

True love does not have a happy ending. True love doesn’t have an ending.

Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.

Enjoy life but to be attentive. Don’t think there are no beast just because the forest is silent.

Hi, I’m a spider and I can make your girlfriend scream louder than you can.

I have learned to never assume too much when it comes to form users.

If you cant explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.

When you really love someone age, distance, height, weight is just a darn number.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I lost almost 300 games. 26 times have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

It’s not that we don’t like you, we hate you. Period!

Hacker. Dropout. CEO.

I don’t get it why do people always assume the worst, when you tell them you’re a drug dealer.

Someday, and that day may never come, I may call upon you to do a service for me. But, until that day, accept this as a gift.

Life is so short, so why think about dying?

They killed God because he smiled on them.

They’ll bury it so deep it’ll be easier to reach if you start digging in China.

Why do we never know ourselves the way we think we do.

Once you know what you’re looking for, the rest comes easy.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

It’s uncomfortable to focus so intensely on what you’re bad at,” Spiegel told me. “So the way people usually study chess is they read a book about chess, which can be fun and often intellectually amusing, but it doesn’t actually translate into skill. If you really want to get better at chess, you have to look at your games and figure out what you’re doing wrong.

Spiegel wrote on her blog: The first day and a half was pretty bad. I was on a complete rampage, going over every game and being a huge bitch all the time: saying things like “THAT IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!” to 11-year-olds for hanging pieces or not having a reason for a move. I said some amazing things to kids, including “You can count to two, right? Then you should have seen that!!” and “If you are not going to pay more attention, you should quit chess, because you are wasting everyone’s time.” By the end of round three I was starting to feel like an abusive jerk and was about to give up and be fake nice instead. But then in round four everyone took more than an hour and started playing well. And I really believe that’s why we seem to win girls’ nationals sections pretty easily every year: most people won’t tell teenage girls (especially the together, articulate ones) that they are lazy and the quality of their work is unacceptable. And sometimes kids need to hear that, or they have no reason to step up.

My favorite quotes from the book The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss:

I don’t care what they talk, I care what they say.

There was an art to choosing your projects in fishery. It didn’t matter if you made the brightest sympathy lamp or the most efficient heat funnel in the history of artificing until someone bought it you wouldn’t make a bent penny of commission.

Most things fail with the age. Our hands and basks stiffen, our eyes dim, skin roghens and our beauty fades. The only exception is the voice. Properly cared for a voice does nothing but grow sweeter with age and constant use.

We love what we love. So, yes, it had flaws, so what does that had to matter when it comes to the matters of the heart. We love what to love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing ‘because’. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something ‘despite’, to know the flaws, and love them too. That is rare end pure and perfect.

Why Auri? Because she doesn’t have anyone else, and neither do I. If we don’t look out for each other – who will?

The desire for a knowledge shapes the mind

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short and I forced my way through gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye, so it is not to damage the entirety of my brain.

If we didn’t have impressive sounding names no one would take us seriously.

You’d be amazed how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance. And he was generous and rich – which is a nice combination.

Clothes do not make a man, but you need a proper costume if you want to play the part.

They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves.

When you’re around it’s easy to forget all the bad parts of my life – who I am – it’s nice to take a vacation from myself every once in a while. You’re my safe harbor in an endless stormy sea. You’re my shady willow on a sunny day. You’re sweet music in a distant room. You’re unexpected cake on a rainy day. You’re my bright penny on the roadside, you are worth more than the moon on the long night walk. You are sweet wine in my mouth, a song in my throat and laughter in my heart. You’re too good for me. You are a luxury I cannot afford. Despite this I insist you come with me today, I will buy you dinner and spend hours waxing rhapsodic landscape of wonder that is you.

Lord woman, if I had tits like yours I’d own half the world by now.

Poetry is a song without music. The song without music is like a body without soul.

Too much looking can get in the way of seeing.

The world needs people like you. You get things done. Not always the best or most sensible way but it gets done. You’re a rare creature. You know exactly what to do. You don’t hesitate – you just see and react.

That’s another problem with power. If you possess too much people don’t date point out your mistakes.

I’ll need to know more about her. Trying to court a woman without knowing her would be worse than foolish.

History tends to be rather dry, but everyone enjoys story.

It’s hard to long for something that is always there. Absence feeds affection.

A secret of the mouth is like a stone in a boot. At first you’re barely aware of it, then grows irritating, then intolerable. Secrets of the mouth grow larger the longer you keep them swelling until they press against your lips. They fight to be let free. Secrets of the heart are different. They are private and painful and we want nothing more than to hide them from the world. They do not swell or press against the mouth, they live in the heart and a longer they are kept the heavier they become. He complains that it’s better to have a mouthful of poison than the secret of a heart. Any fool will spit out poison, but we support these painful treasures. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier – given the time they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.

Nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Only a fool worries over what he can’t control

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

Boys are always wearing beards hoping it will make them men.

Leader is not the muscle leader is a mind.

I learned more from a month on the road then I had in three years of classes. No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, a great teacher. Bitter as medicine, cruder than glass. Long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than 100 years of quiet introspective.

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

If a leg goes bad you need to cut it off, and some folks need killing.

They did important things. They made hard choices that no one else was willing to do. That sort of thing frightens people.

It’s one thing to enjoy story but it’s quite another to take it for the truth.

We are more than the parts that form us.

 

No matter where she stood she was in the centre of the room. Do not misunderstand, she was not loud or vain. We stare at the fire because it flickers, because it glows. The light is what catches our eyes but what makes a man lean close to the fire has nothing to do with its bright shape. What draws you to a fire is a warmth you feel when you come near. The same is true of Denna.

 

All snakes bite, I don’t need their names to know they’re dangerous.

 

Call a Jack Jack, call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

 

She taught me I should never do anything in private that I didn’t want talked about in public.

 

The day we fret about the future is the day will leave our childhood behind.

 

To truly understand what it was like you must realize that nothing is so grand as true showing off for one another. Good entertainers try to make each performance special, but you need to remember that the show they’re putting on for you is the same one they’re putting for hundreds of other audiences.

 

Bones mend, regret stays with you forever.

 

Asking to hold musicians instrument is like asking a man to kiss his wife.

 

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to my wondrous things.

 

There are two sure ways to lose friends to lose a friend; one is to borrow the other to lend.

 

She had a wonderful collection of gently moving curves.

 

If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you want, you have to find the courage to live it.

Since I very much like to read non technical books also, and I have a habit of collecting quotes in my “quotes book”, I’m about to start and post every Thursday all the quotes that I wrote down from some book. What better book to start with than with The Little Prince by  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

All grown-ups were children once.

It is sad to forget a friend.

You know… when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

The land of tears is so mysterious.

At the time, I was unable to understand anything! I should have based my judgment upon deeds and not words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I should never have run away from her! I should have guessed at the affection behind her poor little tricks. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

I’ve been silly. Please forgive me. Try to be happy. Of course, I love you. If you were not aware of it, it was my fault. This is not important. But you have been just as foolish. Try to be happy…

Don’t hang about so, it’s irritating. You have decided to leave, so leave.

If I ordered a general to change himself into seabird, and if the general did not obey, it wouldn’t be the general’s fault. It would be my fault for ordering him to do the impossible.

One must demand of each and everyone what he or she is capable off.

Authority is first and foremost based on reason.

It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

What are you doing here? I’m drinking. Why are you drinking? In order to forget. Forget what? Forget that I’m ashame. Ashame of what? Ashamed of drinking.

Kings own nothing, they reign over.

When one wants to be funny, one may have to lie a bit from time to time.

One feels rather lonely in the desert.

I thought I was rich with a flower unique in the world, where is in fact all I had was a common rose.

One can only understand the things one tames.

That’s right, said the Fox. To me you’re still just a little boy like 100,000 other little boys and I have no need of you and you have no need of me either. To you I’m just a fox like 100,000 other foxes, but if you tame me, we shall need one another. To me, you will be unique. And I shall be unique to you.

Men have no more time to understand anything.  They buy ready-made things in the shops, but since there are no shops where you can buy friends man no longer have any friends.

Words are source of misunderstandings.

Thus it was that the little prince tamed the Fox. And when the time for his departure came the fox said “Oh, I shall cry.” It’s your own fault, said the little prince. I wished you no harm, but you wanted me to tame you. Yes indeed, said the fox.  But you are going to cry, said the little prince. That is so, said the fox. Then it has not helped you in anyway. It has helped me, said the Fox, because of the color of the wheatfields. Then she added: go and have another look at the roses and you will understand that yours is indeed unique in all the world. Then you will come back and say goodbye to me and I shall tell you a secret as a gift.

None of you is at all like my rose. As you are nothing, he said to them. Nobody has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You’re beautiful but you are empty. One cannot die for you.

It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

It is good to have had a friend even if one is going to die.

What makes the desert so beautiful is that it hides a well, somewhere…

Time soothes all sorrow.