In order to feel anything you need strength.
-Anna Maria Ortese

QUOTES

This is a collection of quotes I've been gathering over the years, mostly modern in nature. You can search it by author or keyword.

Or you can browse them all by theme:

ability	acceptance
accomplishment	achievement
action	admissions
adolescence	adultery
adventure	adversity
advertising	advice
age	alcohol
ambition	America
anger	animals
apology	appearance
April	art
attitude	awakening
babies	barriers
beach	beauty
beginnings	behavior
belief	birthday
birthdays	blessings
bodies	book club
books	boys
brevity	business
celebrations	celebrity
censorship	challenge
challenges	chances
change	character
cheating	childhood
children	chocolate
choices	Christmas
cleanliness	clothes
coffee	color
comedy	commitment
communication	community
competition	confidence
conflict	connection
conscience	contentment
conversation	conversations
cooking	courage
creativity	critics
curiosity	dads
dancing	design
desire	destinations
determination	diets
discovery	Disney
dogs	domesticity
drama	dreams
drinking	drive
driving	earth
Easter	education
emotion	enchantment
encouragement	enthusiasm
envy	etiquette
exercise	expectations
experience	faces
faith	fall
fame	family
fashion	fatalism
fate	fatherhood
fear	feelings
food	fools
forgiveness	fortune
freedom	friendship
fun	future
games	gender
generosity	gifts
girls	giving
goals	gossip
government	graduation
grandchildren	grandparents
gratitude	grief
grieve	growth
hands	happiness
health	heart
hell	helping
history	home
honesty	hope
humility	humor
ideas	ignorance
illness	imagination
individuality	information
inner life	inspiration
instinct	integrity
intelligence	journalism
journey	joy
June	kindness
knowledge	laughter
leadership	learning
lesson	lessons
lies	life
likeability	love
luck	manners
marriage	maturity
memory	Men
mind	minds
mistakes	modesty
moms	money
motherhood	motivation
music	nature
neatness	necessities
new year	night
no	nursery rhymes
obligation	obstacles
openness	opportunity
optimism	organization
originality	parenthood
parties	past
patriotism	peace
people	perfection
persistence	perspective
photography	pictures
pleasure	politics
possessions	possibilities
power	praise
pregnancy	preparation
price	problems
procrastination	progress
provocative	purpose
quality	rationality
reading	regret
relationships	resilience
results	revenge
risk	romance
sadness	sanity
scent	school
scrapbooking	seasons
self	self esteem
self improvement	sense
sentiment	sex
shopping	siblings
silence	simplicity
sisterhood	sisters
sleep	smile
socializing	society
solitude	spirit
spirituality	sports
spring	strength
stress	style
success	summer
sun	talent
talk	teachers
teaching	teamwork
thinking	thoughts
time	toast
today	travel
truth	understanding
universe	vacation
vision	volunteerism
wedding	wine
wisdom	wishes
wit	women
wonder	words
work	worry
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