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“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
― David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
― Voltaire

“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

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In a truly free society, individuals are granted responsibility for themselves. Freedom necessitates that we learn how to provide for ourselves, contributing value in whatever form, to generate personal income. We then decide how we wish to spend or save earned income; freedom is the reward for fulfilling personal responsibilities.”
― Candace Owens, Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation