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  • Stephen Chbosky
    "I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't."
    — Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)


  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
    — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


  • "It's not about hair loss. It's about face GAIN. I hear the term, 'receding hairline'. I say, 'Expanding Facial Fronteir'. One day I might have a whole head of FACE."
    — Sheng Wang


  • Sue Monk Kidd
    "I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved."
    — Sue Monk Kidd


  • Stephen Chbosky
    "I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why."
    — Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)


  • Jack Handey
    "Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
    — Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)


  • Andy Rooney
    "Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80%of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!"
    — Andy Rooney


  • Mae West
    "Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes."
    — Mae West


  • "When children, frightened of the wolf at the window, were asked what did it want to do, the little boy replied, 'Gobble me up.' The little girl said, 'Let's ask it.' "
    — Darrian Leader


  • Nicholas Sparks
    ""A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others."
    — Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)


  • Greg Mortenson
    "Educate a boy, and your educate and individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
    African proverb via Greg Mortensen "
    — Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time)


  • Mary Stewart
    "I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

    —chapter 8"
    — Mary Stewart (The Stormy Petrel)


  • "Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off of you?"
    — Flash Rosenberg


  • "You're so pure I wouldn't be surprsed if cartoon birds did your hair in the morning.
    -Veronica Mars"
    — Rob Thomas


  • Oscar Wilde
    "It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
    — Oscar Wilde


  • Cornelia Funke
    "Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
    — Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)


  • J.D. Salinger
    "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."
    — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)


  • Alan Bennett
    "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours"
    — Alan Bennett (The History Boys: The Film)


  • Roald Dahl
    "I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."
    — Roald Dahl


  • David Sedaris
    "A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."
    — David Sedaris


  • Brian Andreas
    "I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that."
    — Brian Andreas (Story People)


  • "Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. "
    — Eberhard Arnold


  • "For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit... start whenever you want... you can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that stop you. I hope you feel things that you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
    — Benjamin Button


  • Eleanor Roosevelt
    "Do one thing everyday that scares you."
    — Eleanor Roosevelt


  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    "If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


  • Jerry Seinfeld
    "Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end."
    — Jerry Seinfeld


  • "No matter how far you take it with your friends, whether you're fighting with them or you hate them for two months, you just really need them, because they're the ones who teach you the most about yourself."
    — Kate Hudson


  • C.S. Lewis
    "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
    — C.S. Lewis


  • Flannery O'Connor
    "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
    — Flannery O'Connor


  • Kahlil Gibrán
    "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
    — Kahlil Gibrán


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
    — Marilyn Monroe


  • Aristotle
    "To perceive is to suffer."
    — Aristotle


  • Arundhati Roy
    "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."
    — Arundhati Roy


  • Anthony Robbins
    "I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying
    the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I
    now enjoy. "
    — Anthony Robbins


  • Brian Tracy
    "No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from
    scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who
    have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve
    our goals."
    — Brian Tracy


  • Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    "The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
    — Marjorie Pay Hinckley


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted."
    — Madeleine L'Engle (Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage)


  • Basho
    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought."
    — Basho


  • Madeleine L'Engle
    "We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature."
    — Madeleine L'Engle (Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage)


  • Lynn Marie Sager
    "People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you."
    — Lynn Marie Sager (A River Worth Riding)



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