Quotes on Reading Is A Lifestyle

... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.

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Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

"Only different people change the world," Granny used to say. "No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing."

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Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

A beautiful thing is never perfect.

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Egyptian Proverb

A book a day keeps reality away.

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Unknown author

A book in hand is worth two in the library.

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Les Harding

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

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Neil Gaiman

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

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Garrison Keillor

A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.

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Mark Lawrence

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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Franz Kafka

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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Franz Kafka

A book that is shut is but a block.

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Thomas Fuller

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

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Erin Majors

A change in direction does not mean you're abandoning your path. Few paths are wide, straight, or predictable.

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Doe Zantamata

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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Alan Kay

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

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Italo Calvino

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

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Albert Einstein

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

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Nicolas Chamfort

A diamond is a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.

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Unknown author

A dog lives for you. A cat just lives with you.

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Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

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Unknown author

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

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Elbert Hubbard

A friend may be nature’s most magnificent creation.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good book is an event in my life.

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Stendhal

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.

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Lois Wyse

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.

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Irish Proverb

A good way to overcome stress is to help others out of theirs.

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Dada J. P. Vaswani

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

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William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

A great man is always willing to be little.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is hard on himself; A small man is hard on others.

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Confucius

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

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David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

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Horace Mann

A hug is always the right size.

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Winnie the Pooh

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to control it.

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John Steinbeck

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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John C. Maxwell

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

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Emily Dickinson

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

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Henry Ward Beecher

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

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Jackie Robinson

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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George Bernard Shaw

A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.

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Winnie the Pooh

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.

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Rudyard Kipling

A man is known by the books he reads.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

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Richard Nixon

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

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John C. Maxwell

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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Walt Disney

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

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George R.R. Martin

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

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Paulo Coelho

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

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Socrates

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

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Desmond Tutu

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

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Albert Einstein

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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Winston S. Churchill

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

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Roy Blount, Jr.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

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George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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Cicero

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

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J.R.R. Tolkien

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

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English proverb

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

A trained librarian is a powerful search engine with a heart.

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Sarah McIntyre

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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Henry David Thoreau

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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Robertson Davies

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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Robertson Davies

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

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Lisa Kleypas

A word after a word after a word is power.

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Margaret Atwood

A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

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Alice Walker

A year from now, you will wish you had started today.

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Karen Lamb

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Accept who you are in this moment, fully, but acknowledge who you want to become. Love both versions.

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Kristen Butler

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

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Eckhart Tolle

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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Pablo Picasso

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

After all, the purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.

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Adam Grant

After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.

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Jocko Willink

After all, tomorrow is another day.

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Margaret Mitchell

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

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Francis Bacon

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

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Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

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Walt Disney

All reading, in short, is telepathy and all reading is time travel. It connects us to everyone and everywhere and every time and every imagined dream.

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Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

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Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

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Walt Disney

All the advice in the world will never help you until you help yourself.

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Fred Van Amburgh

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

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Francis of Assisi

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn

All things are difficult before they are easy.

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Thomas Fuller

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

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Anne Lamott

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

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Helen Hayes

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

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Judy Garland

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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Lord Byron

Always leave people better than you found them. Hug the hurt. Kiss the broken. Befriend the lost. Love the lonely.

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Unknown author

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

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David Augsburger

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

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Abraham Lincoln

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

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John Steinbeck, East of Eden

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

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John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

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Tony Robbins

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

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Isaac Asimov

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

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Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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Albert Einstein

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

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Henry Ford

Apologizing doesn't always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It means you value your relationship more than your ego.

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Unknown author

As children, we are very sensitive to nature's beauty, finding miracles and interesting things everywhere. As we grow up, we tend to forget how beautiful and magnificent the world is. There is magic and wonder for eyes who know how to look with curiosity and love.

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ANSEL ADAMS

As soon as there is life, there is danger.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

As you grow older, you will discover you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

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Audrey Hepburn

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.

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Toni Morrison

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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Winston Churchill

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

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Eckhart Tolle

Be a good person, but don't waste your time trying to prove it.

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Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Be careful what you say to someone today. Tomorrow they might not be here, and you can never take it back.

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Unknown author

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

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H Van Dyke

Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.

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Serbian proverb

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

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Socrates

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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Plato

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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Marie Curie

Be like a tree. Stay grounded, keep growing, and know when to let go.

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Unknown author

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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Bill Gates

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

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Phillips Brooks

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

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Stephen Covey

Be strong, but not rude. Be kind, but not weak. Be bold, but not bully. Be humble, but not timid. Be proud, but not arrogant.

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Jim Rohn

Be thankful for every new challenge. Each will give you more strength, wisdom, and character.

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Kristen Butler

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

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Jim Lovell

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

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Oprah Winfrey

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

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Dodinsky

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

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Dr. Seuss

Be with someone who is good for your mental health.

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Unknown author

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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Oscar Wilde

Beauty is about living your life, and being happy with yourself inside and out, and not worrying about what people think of you.

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Unknown author

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

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Desmond Tutu

Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

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John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

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Lao Tzu

Being a grownup is great, but sometimes I miss crying until someone feeds me.

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Conan O’Brien

Being a real man is having a family you love and respecting the woman God has given you.

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F. Sanchez

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

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Seth Godin

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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Lao Tzu

Being honest may not get you many friends, but it will always get you the right ones.

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John Lennon

Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.

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Unknown author

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

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Joe Paterno

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Better to be crazy and happy than normal and bitter.

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Paulo Coelho

Books are dead men talking.

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George R.R. Martin

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

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E.B. White

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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Virginia Woolf

Books are the past, they are the present, they are our future! They are mirrors of other lives, but they also speak of our own lives. They open doors to the world. Books are dangerous, they make you think, wonder, help you grow. They're not innocent.

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Isabel Coixet

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

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Stephen King

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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Anna Quindlen

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

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Charles W. Eliot, The Durable Satisfactions of Life

Books are the training weights of the mind.

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Epictetus

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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Henry David Thoreau

Books are uniquely portable magic.

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Stephen King

Books don’t change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

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John Piper

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

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Cornelia Funke

Books may well be the only true magic.

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Alice Hoffman

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

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William Feather

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

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Abraham Lincoln

Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives— or to find strength in a very long one.

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V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

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Oprah Winfrey

But man is not made for defeat… A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

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Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Change the changeable. Accept the unchangeable. And remove yourself from the unacceptable.

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Denis Waitley

Change the world by being yourself.

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Amy Poehler

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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Helen Keller

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

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Unknown author

Chemistry is great, but eventually your relationship moves out of the laboratory

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Tim Fargo

Children wonder at the world. Parents wonder at their children’s wonder. In so doing, we are all together young.

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Mitch Albom, Finding Chika

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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Confucius

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

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Henry David Thoreau

Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.

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Mark Twain

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

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Terry Pratchett

Comparison is the thief of joy.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.

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Alain de Botton

Confidence is a measure of how much you believe in yourself.

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Adam Grant

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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Mark Twain

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

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Maya Angelou

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

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Chinese Proverb

Discipline equals freedom.

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Jocko Willink

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

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Richard Branson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

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Irish proverb

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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Thomas Jefferson

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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Desmond Tutu

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

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Lao Tzu

Don't be afraid of death, be afraid of an unlived life.

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Natalie Babbitt

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

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Grace Hansen

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

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Roy T. Bennett

Don't be so quick to believe everything you hear, because lies travel faster than the truth.

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Unknown author

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

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Dr. Seuss

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

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Tim Fargo

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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Henry Ford

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

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Dolly Parton

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.

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Epictetus

Don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

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Dalai Lama

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Earl Nightingale

Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Marston

Don't let your plans or goals become more important than yourself, or the ones you care about.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

José N. Harris

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roy T. Bennett

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Napoleon Hill

Don't waste your time arguing with people who believe in their own lies.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paulo Coelho

Don't waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paulo Coelho

Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Don’t judge a book by its cover.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

George Eliot

Done is better than perfect.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sheryl Sandberg

Dream big and dare to fail.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Buddha

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aristotle

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

William Butler Yeats

Education isn't something you can finish.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Isaac Asimov

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Malcolm Forbes

Ego judges and punishes. Love forgives and heals.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jim Rohn

Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You’d quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

Embrace difference.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adulthood Rites

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Barack Obama

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Arthur Balfour

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Victor Hugo

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Samuel Beckett

Every artist was first an amateur.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pablo Picasso

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ray Lewis

Every day of your life is a page of your history.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Arabian Proverb

Every morning you have two choices. Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thomas Carlyle

Every now and then it's good to stop climbing and appreciate the view from right where you are.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lori Deschene

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that It is stupid.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nelson Mandela

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Leo Tolstoy

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bill Nye

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Confucius

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Barry Lopez

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Made popular by John Lennon

Everything you can imagine is real.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pablo Picasso

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hans Christian Andersen

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henri Frederic Amiel

Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jocko Willink

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aldous Huxley

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Japanese proverb

Fall in love with souls, not faces.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

George Eliot

Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen King

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dr. Seuss

Flames are not just the end, they are also the beginning. For everything that you have destroyed can be rebuilt. From your own ashes you can grow again.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Grant

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Greg Anderson

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Karl Lagerfeld

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shannon L. Alder

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shannon L. Alder

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Viola Davis, Finding Me

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Desmond Tutu

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Baudelaire

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Lincoln

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry Ford

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry David Thoreau

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Elbert Hubbard

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Louisa May Alcott

Good leaders don't make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jocko Willink

Good teachers introduce new thoughts, but great teachers introduce new ways of thinking.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Grant

Good things take time.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Wooden

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is the ultimate drug! It feels wonderful, is free, legal, and has no negative side effects.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Damaris Pierce

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Melody Beattie

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dan Brown

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roy T. Bennett

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dr. Samuel Johnson

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Queen Elizabeth II

Grow up and be different and don’t let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ginni Rometty

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

George Orwell

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is the best makeup.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Drew Barrymore

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mahatma Gandhi

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Dickens

Having somewhere to go is home, having someone to love is family, having both is blessing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

He knew that it wasn't love if it didn't hurt a little.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling

He showed me his fantastic library first, and that helped me warm to him a little. A guy with a room like that in his house couldn’t be all bad.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mind of My Mind, Octavia Butler

He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen King, The Stand

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Louisa May Alcott

He who can suppress a moment's anger, may prevent many days' sorrow.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Chinese Proverb

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Plato

Help someone, even if you know they can never help you back.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Winston Churchill

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Langston Hughes

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Desmond Tutu

How people die remains in the memory of those who live on.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dame Cicely Saunders

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paulo Coelho

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

C. S. Lewis

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry David Thoreau

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Carl Jung

I am short, fat, and proud of that.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Winnie the Pooh

I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Viola Davis

I cannot live without books.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thomas Jefferson

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jorge Luis Borges

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Socrates

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shakespeare

I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry Rollins

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oscar Wilde

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change it today and don’t wait until the New Year.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Georgina Bloomberg

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Groucho Marx

I guess there are never enough books.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Steinbeck, The Pearl

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Steinbeck, On Teaching

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martha Washington

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

George R.R. Martin

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

George R.R. Martin

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sarah Williams, The Old Astronomer

I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Theodore Roosevelt

I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mary Wesley

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thomas Edison

I just sit in my office and read all day.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Warren Buffett

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Robert Louis Stevenson

I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman

I lived in books more than l lived anywhere else.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman

I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

F. Scott Ftizgerald

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

I read; I travel; I become.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Derek Walcott

I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Leo Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do?

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Emma Thompson

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Woody Allen

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry David Thoreau

I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Steve Jobs

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lucille Ball

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Lincoln

I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Melody Truong

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

J. D. Salinger

I’m a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Haruki Murakami

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Jordan

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Jordan

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Claude McKay

If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rumi

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mario Andretti

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather than dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Barbara Bush

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry David Thoreau

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oscar Wilde

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Betty White

If one is never lost in life, then clearly one has never traveled anywhere interesting.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Montesquieu

If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can't hear them anymore.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Michele Ruiz

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen King, 11/22/63

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Japanese proverb

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry Miller

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Toni Morrison

If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been No for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Steve Jobs

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thomas Edison

If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we'd be happy with more?

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roy T. Bennett

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roald Dahl

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Desmond Tutu

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Chinese proverb

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

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wayne Dyer

If you could just be a decent father, I'd be so proud of you, Shug. And then maybe I could be proud of myself too.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Virginia Woolf

If you don't believe it yourself, don't ask anyone else to do so.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Napoleon Hill

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dolly Parton

If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

J. K. Rowling

If you don't take a chance, you don't stand a chance.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen King

If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alice Walker

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sylvia Plath

If you have a family that loves you, a roof over your head & a warm meal, you're doing better than you think.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cicero

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mother Teresa

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Zen

If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live a day without you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Winnie the Pooh

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you love yourself, you will write your autobiography every day.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Breaker Of Chains

If you made a list of all the things you could be thankful for, the list would undoubtedly be longer than your misfortunes.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Catherine Pulsifer

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Napoleon Hill

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Haruki Murakami

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ivan Pavlov

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Desmond Tutu

If you want something you never had you have to do something you've never done.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thomas Jefferson

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen King

If you want to fly in the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Amit Ray

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

African proverb

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jim Rohn

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Leslie Lamport

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shane Koyczan

Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership, and developing a plan to overcome challenges are integral to any successful team.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jocko Willink

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Theodore Roethke

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

In a world that often tries to divide us, literature remains one of the last sacred spaces where we can live inside each other's minds, if only for a few pages.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Banu Mushtaq, Winner of 2025 International Booker Prize

In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alex Haley

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ben Aaronovitch

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Marston

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Chief Joseph

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

It hurt because it mattered.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Green

It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

André Gide

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maurice Switzer

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Buddha

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seneca

It is not the length of life, but depth of life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gabriel García Márquez

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Steinbeck, Writers at Work

It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself, because if you live you will make mistakes.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Muhammad Ali

It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ellen DeGeneres

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

It takes two to have a fight.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roberta M. Gilbert, Extraordinary Relationships

It's a little card that goes a loud way. Let your imagination sing at the library.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Idina Menzel

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Elizabeth Kenny

It's better to walk alone than with a crowd giving in the wrong direction.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

It's not how big the house is, it's how happy the home is.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Wooden

It's not the things you can count that are important in life. It's the things you can't count that count.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Winnie the Pooh

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paulo Coelho

It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maureen Corrigan

It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Jim said that bees won’t sting idiots, but I didn’t believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn’t sting me.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Karl Barth

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ella Fitzgerald

Just set one day’s work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Steinbeck

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Helen Keller

Kid, there are heroes and there are legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Babe Ruth

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mother Teresa

Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Glassman

Kindness is spreading sunshine into people's lives regardless of the weather.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Raktivist

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Robin Sharma

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bruce Lee

Knowledge is live and light and vision.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Helen Keller

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jimi Hendrix

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Zig Ziglar

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Walt Disney Company

Lead from the heart, not the head.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Princess Diana

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Groucho Marx

Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Leonardo da Vinci

Less is More.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mies van der Rohe

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lauren Ward

Libraries are our friends.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sidney Sheldon

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sidney Sheldon

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anne Herbert

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Swindoll

Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Peter Hagerty

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Helen Keller

Life is full of moments that we can't explain or understand, but all we can do is keep going.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Denis Waitley

Life is like a book. If you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

Life is like walking, you take one step at a time.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Taylor Swift

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Søren Kierkegaard

Life is short. Be kind.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Matt Haig

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

George Bernard Shaw

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bryant McGill

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anais Nin

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Larry Ellison

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

Life's too short to sit around and wait.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephanie Gilmore

Limits exist only in your mind.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Literature is about contemplation not speed-reading for plot or fact. I try to give the reader what I call the startling moment—to take them down to the heartbeat of a character. To open the moment out in all its richness.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paul Lynch

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mahatma Gandhi

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry David Thoreau

Look up to nobody, look down on nobody, but look straight into the eyes of everybody.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Look. It’s one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don’t really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look over. We glance. We move on.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mitch Albom, Finding Chika

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

William Shakespeare

Love can be a beautiful thing, but it can also be the cruelest thing in the world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paulo Coelho

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aristotle

Love is the absence of judgment.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dalai Lama

Love is the absence of judgment.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dalai Lama

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rumi

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

William Shakespeare

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lucille Ball

Love yourself first because this is the person you are going to spend the rest of your life with.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ray Kroc

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is an opportunity and what isn’t.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lucille Ball

Make each day your masterpiece.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Wooden

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

George Bernard Shaw

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Andre Gide

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Swami Vivekananda

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jane Smiley, 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

May you live long enough to know why you were born.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Viola Davis, Finding Me

May your day be filled with good thoughts, kind people, and happy moments.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Power of Positivity

Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tove Jansson

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there — buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Deepak Chopra

Miracles come in Moments. Be Ready and Willing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wayne Dyer

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Søren Kierkegaard

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thrive Global

My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Malcolm X

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Indira Gandhi

My heart has wings and I can fly. I’ll touch every star in the sky. So this is the miracle I’ve been dreaming of.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cinderella

My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Waters

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lao Tzu

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

E. O. Wilson

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Isaac Newton

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Quote about Abraham Lincoln

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. & Best people give you memories.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Never force love, affection or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Earl Nightingale

Never judge a book by its movie.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

J. W. Eagan

Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roy T. Bennett

Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Holbrook Jackson

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lemony Snicket

Never, never, never give up.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Winston Churchill

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dale Dauten

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shakespeare

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Napoleon Hill

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Heraclitus

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Epictetus

No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Lincoln

No man was ever wise by chance.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seneca

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Confucius

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Robin Williams

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Demi Lovato

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anne Frank

No one in this world is pure and perfect. If you avoid people for their mistakes, you will be alone in this world. So judge less and love more.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nelson Mandela

No two persons read the same book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Edmund Wilson

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Zelda Fitzgerald

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mother Teresa

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Harry S. Truman

Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paulo Coelho

Not all those who wander are lost.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

J.R.R. Tolkien

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Georg Hegel

Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nicholas Sparks

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Brandon Sanderson

Of all the liars in the world, the worst are our own fears.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rudyard Kipling

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nikola Tesla

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

David Quammen

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen King

Once you choose hope, anything is possible.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Christopher Reeve

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Louis L’Amour

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Frederick Douglas

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Frederick Douglass

One bad chapter doesn't mean your story's over.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abdul Kalam

One day at a time. One dream at a time. And one could say it’s right and one could say it’s wrong. And probably both would be right. Because life is both complicated and simple. Which is why there are cookies.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paulo Coelho

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Carl Sagan

One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

One must go on working silently, trusting the result to the future.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Vincent Van Gogh

One small positive thought can change your whole day.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Zig Ziglar

One thing about growing up is realizing you don't hate anything anymore. Things either matter to you or they don't.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

One thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Haruki Murakami

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sophocles

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry Miller

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jane Goodall

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, can they be saved.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dr. Jane Goodall

Only trust someone who can see these three things in you: The sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger, and the reason behind your silence.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Brené Brown

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Chris Grosser

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jackson Brown

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Helen Keller

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kahlil Gibran

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Joseph Addison

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Groucho Marx

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

Patience is also a form of action.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Auguste Rodin

Peace begins with a smile.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mother Teresa

Peace is its own reward.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mahatma Gandhi

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People don't always need advice. Sometimes all they really need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen, and heart to understand them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry

People inspire you or they drain you . Pick them wisely.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hans F. Hansen

People inspire you or they drain you . Pick them wisely.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hans F. Hansen

People make time for what matters to them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Emily Giffin

People who are not happy with themselves, cannot possibly be happy with you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Perfect is boring. Human is beautiful.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tyra Banks

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Matt Biondi

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman

Popularity is how many likes you collect. Impact is how many lives you enrich.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Grant

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kurt Vonnegut

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry Ford

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bill Watterson

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rumi

Read a lot. Write a lot. Do that over and over again for the rest of your life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tahereh Mafi

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Virginia Woolf

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry David Thoreau

Read what you love until you love to read.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Naval Ravikant

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

William Faulkner

Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gary Paulsen

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mortimer J. Adler

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mary Schmich

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Malorie Blackman

Reading is basically an empathy workout.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Inc.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jim Rohn

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Barack Obama

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Laurie Helgoe, Introvert Power

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Edmund Burke

Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rocky Balboa

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Richard Branson

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Winnie the Pooh

Roses would be annoying weeds if the blooms never withered and died. Beauty resides in the knowledge that it doesn’t last.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

Rudeness is the weak person's imitation of strength.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eric Hoffer

Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Robert Eliot

See good in all things.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Seek First to understand, then to be understood.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen Covey

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Muhammad Ali

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Edith Wharton

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Annie Dillard

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rumi

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Napoléon Bonaparte

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lou Holtz

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

George R.R. Martin

Slow and steady wins the race.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The hare and the tortoise

Small acts of kindness can make a difference in other people's lives more than we can imagine.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Catherine Pulsifer

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Blaise Pascal

Smile. It is sunshine to others.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Joe Vitale

So many books, so little time.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Frank Zappa

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Vincent Van Gogh

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Franz Kafka

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Francis Bacon

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

C. S. Lewis

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

A.A. Milne

Some things are best mended by a break.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Edith Wharton

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oprah Winfrey

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

C.S. Lewis

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mary Oliver

Someone will always be prettier. Someone will always be smarter. Someone will always be younger. But they will never be you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tanni Sattar

Sometimes life will hit you in the head with a brick, don't lose faith.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Steve Jobs

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Winnie the Pooh

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and where you want to be.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gossip Girl

Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John C. Maxwell

Sometimes, people fall in love with the idea of someone, rather than the person themselves.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

Sometimes, the hardest battles to fight are the ones we fight within ourselves.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

Sometimes, the people who need the most love are the hardest to love.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

Spend time with your parents, treat them well. Because one day, when you look up from your phone, they won't be there anymore.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Budweiser advertisement 1938

Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success!

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness. Not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aristotle

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Ruskin

Surround yourself with people who illuminate your path.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kristen Butler

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Chinese proverb

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Benjamin Franklin

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

F. Scott Fitzgerald

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alice Hoffman

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry David Thoreau

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Friedrich Nietzsche

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Altshuler

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Proverb

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Helen Keller

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Lincoln

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Chinese proverb

The best view comes after the hardest climb.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

The big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Frank Sinatra

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Joseph Campbell

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry David Thoreau

The curse of knowledge is that it closes our minds to what we don't know.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Grant

The day I got lucky was the day I stopped believing in luck.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Parker Garlitz

The distance is nothing, when one has motive.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

The earth has enough for every man's need but not for every man's greed.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mahatma Gandhi

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

The first wealth is health.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Walt Disney Company

The future depends on what you do today.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mahatma Gandhi

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Naval Ravikant

The goal of social media shouldn't be to collect likes from strangers. It should be to share your insights and learn from the insights of others.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Grant

The greatest act of courage is not falling in love. But, despite everything, falling in love again.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Robin Wayne Bailey

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Elizabeth Hardwick

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Marcus Aurelius

The heart has reasons that reason doesn't understand.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Blaise Pascal

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Vincent Van Gogh

The If I had time lie is a convenient way to ignore the fact that novels require being written and writing happens a sentence at a time. Sentences can happen in a moment. Enough stolen moments, enough stolen sentences, and a novel is born, w/o the luxury of time.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Julia Cameron

The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rachel Anders

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lao Tzu

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen Covey

The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Libba Bray

The light of morning decomposes everything.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Voltaire

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roger Waters

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Voltaire

The more intelligent you become, the more problems you’ll have.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dr. Seuss

The more you overthink, the less you will understand.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Habeeb Akande

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Helen Keller

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Amelia Earhart

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Voltaire

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Theodore Roosevelt

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Morrie Schwartz

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jackie Robinson

The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don’t think about getting it back, you’ve given it in love.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mitch Albom, Finding Chika

The most valuable asset is not a head full of knowledge. But a heart full of love, with an ear ready to listen and a hand willing to help.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rabindranath Tagore

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader Vol II

The only lasting truth is change.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Octavia Butler

The only predictable thing about life is its unpredictability.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Remy, Movie Ratatouille

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Henry Miller

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Socrates

The only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

The only way to do great work, is to love what you do.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Steve Jobs

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Steve Jobs

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Benjamin Franklin

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jane Austen

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

William Arthur Ward

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Julia Alvarez

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Viola Davis, Finding Me

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eleanor Roosevelt

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Descartes

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

René Descartes

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rita Mae Brown

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen King

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Socrates

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Socrates

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Carl Jung

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paulo Coelho

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oscar Wilde

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wayne Dyer

The strongest hearts usually have the most scars.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jeff Hood

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

The thing that makes me different, are the things that make me.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Winnie the Pooh

The time is always right to do what is right.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John F. Kennedy

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Benjamin Mays

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Norman Vincent Peale

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Leo Tolstoy

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Albert Einstein

The voyage of discovery is not about new lands, but having new eyes.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Walt Disney

The way to move out of judgement is to move into gratitude.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neale Donald Walsh

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mahatma Gandhi

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sydney J. Harris

The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

The words you speak become the house you live in.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hafiz

The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

The world belongs to the energetic.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

L. M. Montgomery

The world doesn't always give you what you want, but it often gives you what you need.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Naval Ravikant

The world knows many religions, but nature has but one truth.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Manly P. Hall

The world only exists in your eyes... You can make it as big or as small as you want.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The worst prison in the world is a home without peace. Be careful who you marry or fall in love with.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rumi

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Taiye Selasi

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

C.S. Lewis

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jim Lovell

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mister Rogers

There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Helen Fagin

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Joseph Brodsky

There is a child inside each one of us, who comes out in front of the person we are most comfortable with.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Deepak Chopra

There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Amanda Gorman

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Walt Disney

There is no Friend as loyal as a book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ernest Hemingway

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

There is no way out. Every painful memory, every mentor, every foe served as a chisel. A led path that has shaped me. Me. The imperfect but blessed sculpture Viola that still being chiseled. My elixir: I am no longer ashamed of myself. I own everything that happened to me.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Viola Davis, Finding Me

There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Epictetus

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rene Descartes

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing so stable as change.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bob Dylan

There is the great lesson of Beauty and the Beast, that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

G. K. Chesterton

There was nothing scarier than human sounds.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Percival Everett, James

There's a way to do it better -- find it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thomas Edison

There's a whole world out there, Shuggie. Don't let this place hold you back.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

There's no shortcut to a place worth going.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Beverly Sills

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Najwa Zebian

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Clint Eastwood

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fran Lebowitz

Thinking is enough to exhaust us, while taking action will set us free!

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roz Fruchtman

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

W Clement Stone

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roald Dahl

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Buddha

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Joseph Addison

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

William Arthur Ward

Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alan Lakein

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it, until it has passed over us and taken with it a part of ourselves.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Burroughs

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Heraclitus

Time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what’s left.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Carl Sandburg

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don't use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Cuban

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Miguel de Cervantes

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

W. Somerset Maugham

To be listened to is healing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Montesquieu

To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alan Cohen

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eleanor Roosevelt

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live in the past is to die in the present.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bill Belichick

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oscar Wilde

To live will be an awfully big adventure.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

To love is to be vulnerable.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

C.S. Lewis

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oscar Wilde

To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Reba McEntire

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anne Rice

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Margaret Fuller

Today I am grateful.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Today might not be perfect, but it's a perfect day to be happy.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lori Deschene

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dr Seuss

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Toni Morrison in The Bluest Eye says that a person’s love is only as good as the person; a stupid person loves stupidly, a violent man loves violently.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Viola Davis, Finding Me

Tough times never last but tough people do.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Robert H. Schuller

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Twain

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anthony Bourdain

Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life's not meant to be lived in one place.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anthony J. D’Angelo

Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they're nice, but because you are.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roy T. Bennett

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Leo Tolstoy

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King Jr.

Trust gets you killed, love gets you hurt and being real gets you hated.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unknown author

Trust Takes Years To Build, Seconds To Break, And Forever To Repair.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dhar Mann

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Steinbeck

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lao Tzu

Turn a page, walk the lines of sentences: the singer steps out, and conjures a world of color and noise in the space inside your head.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oprah Winfrey

Ultimately, art is trying to see things that other people don't see.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Trevor Paglen

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

M. Scott Peck

Vulnerability is like a connector... it connects you to the rest of the world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Phil Stutz

Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Frank Outlaw

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Kingsley

We all accept too easily that life has to be hard and forget to make sure we have the most fun we can.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Amy Schumer

We all love ourselves more than other people - yet care more about their opinion than our own.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Marcus Aurelius

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bianca Sparacino

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oscar Wilde

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aristotle

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dave Ramsey

We can always begin again.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sharon Salzberg

We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Vince Lombardi

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time meeting each thing as it comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eleanor Roosevelt

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anaïs Nin

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen King, IT

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eric Hoffer

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Judith Butler

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We need much less than we think we need.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maya Angelou

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen King, 11/22/63

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Dickens

We read to know we’re not alone.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anaïs Nin

We're all just trying to find our place in this world, Shuggie. Don't ever give up on finding yours.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Austin Phelps

Well read is better than well said.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Benjamin Franklin

What a liberation to realise that the “voice in my head” is not who I am.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eckhart Tolle

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Neil Gaiman

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Meryl Streep

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Bukowski

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Dhammapada

What we don't see, we assume can't be. What a destructive assumption.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Octavia Butler

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Zig Ziglar

What's the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read through in a lifetime...it's better to plant the seeds of a few authors than to be scattered about by many.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seneca

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

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Walter Cronkite

Whatever the present moment contains, embrace it as if you had chosen it.

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Eckhardt Tolle

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

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Stephen King, 11/22/63

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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Confucius

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

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Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

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Maya Angelou

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

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Desiderius Erasmus

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

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Joseph Heller, Catch-22

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

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Rob Bigness

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

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Willie Nelson

When in doubt, go to the library.

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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

When one door closes, another one opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

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Alexander Graham Bell

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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Ernest Hemingway

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

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Jimi Hendrix

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside can't hurt you.

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African proverb

When things go well, don't forget to thank your team behind the scene.

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Kristen Butler

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

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Viktor Frankl

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out, and the tide of love rushes in.

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Kristin Armstrong

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

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Malcolm Forbes

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

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John Lennon

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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Leo Tolstoy

When you stay ready you don't have to get ready.

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Michael Strahan

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

When you’re poor, you live in an alternate reality. It’s not that we have problems different from everyone else, but we don’t have the resources to mask them. We’ve been stripped clean of social protocol.

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Viola Davis, Finding Me

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

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Octavia Butler

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Whenever you have a bit of time for yourself, read a book.

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Hojo Soun

Where there is love there is life.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

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Henry Ford

Who am I? I was quiet, and once again that indestructible memory hit me. “I’m the little girl who would run after school every day in third grade because these boys hated me because I was ... not pretty. Because I was ... Black.” Memories are immortal. They’re deathless and precise. They have the power of giving you joy and perspective in hard times. Or, they can strangle you. Define you in a way that’s based more in other people’s tucked-up perceptions than truth.

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Viola Davis, Finding Me

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.

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Carl Jung

Who you are as a person is going to have more to do with your success in whatever you’re choosing to do than anything else.

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Alan Mulally

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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Anne Frank

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

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Hermann Hesse

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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Oscar Wilde

Without a reader, a book was a blank slate, an object with no breath or pulse of its own. But once a book became part of someone's world, it came to life, with a past and a present—and, if properly cared for, a future.

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Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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Frank Zappa

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

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Desmond Tutu

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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Ray Bradbury

Without trust, honesty and loyalty all your friendships will turn to dust, be a friend worth having, be a light in the sky.

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Unknown author

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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Hermann Hesse

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.

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Jonathan Swift

Words, words, words.

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William Shakespeare

Worrying does not take away tomorrow's trouble, it takes away today's peace.

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Randy Armstrong

Worrying is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

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Unknown author

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

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Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live, am unable to live.

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Patricia Highsmith

Yesterday is a cancelled check: forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: don't count on it. Today is ready cash: use it!

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Edward C. Bliss

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

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Andrew Murphy

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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C.S. Lewis

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

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Pema Chödrön

You are what you read.

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@barnesandnoble

You are where you are right now because of your best thinking. If you want something different, change your thinking.

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Tony Rush

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

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Jodi Picoult

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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Mahatma Gandhi

You can find magic, wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

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Dr. Seuss

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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C.S. Lewis

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

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Unknown author

You can never, never have too many books.

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Drew Barrymore

You can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed.

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Misty Copeland

You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

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Stephen King

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

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Tina Fey

You can't pray a lie.

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Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

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Winnie the Pooh

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

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Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

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Stephen King, 11/22/63

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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Maya Angelou

You cannot change your destiny overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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Jim Rohn

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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David Hare

You deny a part of yourself every time you don't speak your truth.

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Kristen Butler

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

You don't need money to lead a rich life. Good friends and a loving family are worth their weight in gold.

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Susan Gale

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

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Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. It's just so easy to give up!

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Octavia Butler

You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.

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Neil Gaiman

You get what you give.

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Jennifer Lopez

You give before you get.

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Napoleon Hill

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

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E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web

You have to believe in yourself, Shuggie. No one else will if you don't.

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Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

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Abraham Lincoln

You have to fight for what you want in this life, Shuggie. No one's going to hand it to you.

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Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

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Paul Sweeney

You may delay, but time will not.

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Benjamin Franklin

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.

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English Proverb

You must believe that your past is not your future.

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Gayle Carson

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

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Michael Jordan

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

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Henry David Thoreau

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

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Thích Nhất Hạnh

You never fail until you stop trying.

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Albert Einstein

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

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Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

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Michelle Obama

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

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James Baldwin

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.

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James Baldwin

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.

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Suzy Kassem

You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.

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Roy T. Bennett

You were once wild. Don't let them tame you.

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Isadora Duncan

You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.

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Steve Maraboli

You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.

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Abraham Maslow

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

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Paulo Coelho

You won’t find the same person twice, not even in the same person.

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Mahmoud Darwish

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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Gautama Buddha

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success or happiness is found in your daily routine.

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John Maxwell

You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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Winnie the Pooh

You're off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.

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Dr. Seuss

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

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William W. Purkey

Your happiness is within you. No one can give it to you.

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Rhonda Byrne

Your heart will tell you where to go. Your head will guide you there safely. Use one without the other and you'll get lost.

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David R. Harris

Your life is a reflection, you don't get what you want, you get what you are. You gotta be it to see it.

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Steve Maraboli

Your next chapter is going to be amazing.

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Pushkar Mantri

Your only job as an artist is to put the truth out there into the world.

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Viola Davis, Finding Me

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.