Wendy's quotes

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"He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read. He threw the book onto his bed and went to his suitcase. After rummaging about for awhile, he came up with a long, narrow box of chocolate-covered mints. He loved to eat candy while he read, and lots of his favorite books at home had brown smudges on the corners of the pages."
— John Bellairs (The House With a Clock in Its Walls)

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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: faith, humanity, ocean
89 people liked it

"It was as if her life was a huge kaleidoscope, and the kaleidoscope had been turned and now everything was changed. The same stones shaken, no longer made the same design."
— Betsy Byars (The Summers Of The Swans)

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

tags: literacy
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"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

tags: books, reading
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,806 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

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"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
3,045 people liked it

"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

tags: friendship
7,820 people liked it

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

tags: hope
427 people liked it

"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

tags: hope, inspirational, life, philosophy
180 people liked it

"Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?"
— Amy Tan (The Hundred Secret Senses)

tags: dream, hope
43 people liked it

"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
— Nelson Mandela (Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela)

tags: faith, hope, optimism
32 people liked it

"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: hope, wrting
17 people liked it

"Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin? "
— Haven Kimmel (The Solace of Leaving Early)

tags: philosophy
5 people liked it

"I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself."
— Shannon Hale

tags: laughing
641 people liked it

"There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book."
— Betty MacDonald (Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic)

tags: books, candy, cozy, reading
19 people liked it

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
— Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading
43 people liked it

"It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids."
— Tracy Chevalier

tags: books, drowsiness, insomnia, reading, sleepy
22 people liked it

"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."
— Anne Fadiman

tags: bibliophile, bibliophiles, books, reader, reading
23 people liked it

"Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late."
— Ali Smith

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""Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?""
— Andrew Davidson

tags: hope
6 people liked it

""God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect... The best a man can do is to remain silent...The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.""
— Andrew Davidson

20 people liked it

"You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart."
— Elizabeth Berg

tags: children
28 people liked it