"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
— Robert Frost

"Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."
— Eckhart Tolle

"I'm a vegetarian.
You're a what?
I don't eat meat.
How can you not eat meat?
I just don't.
He says he does not eat meat.
What?
No meat?
No meat.
Steak?
No...
Chickens!
No...
And what about the sausage?
No, no sausage, no meat!
He says he does not eat any meat.
Not even sausage?
I know!
What is wrong with him?
What is wrong with you?
Nothing, I just don't eat meat!""
— Jonathan Safran Foer

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them."
— Sylvia Plath

""I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.""
— A. Whitney Brown

"The world was hers for the reading."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past."
— Margaret Mead

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. "
— Fran Lebowitz

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
— William Butler Yeats

"You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you."
— Dallin H. Oaks

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have. "
— Margaret Mead (The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future)

"How we need another soul to cling to."
— Sylvia Plath

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
— Thomas Jefferson

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
— Eckhart Tolle

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"(on fox news).... it's like watching a Disney movie about the news."
— Stephen Colbert

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
— Margaret Mead

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
— Edmund Burke

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation."
— Michelle Obama

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
"
— "quote onthe Statue of Liberty"

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

"We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families."
— Dallin H. Oaks

"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it."
— Dorothy Parker

"They sicken of the calm who know the storm."
— Dorothy Parker

"To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes."
— Jane Jacobs

"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself."
— John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)

" Those who do not complain are never pitied. "
— Jane Austen

"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. "
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)