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“I'm too young to be that old.”
― James Crumley, The Final Country

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“To arrive at a happy tomorrow, you'll need to begin the journey today.”
― J.R. Wright

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Small good decisions will lead you to the glorious path of success.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

“The only way to override your "limitations, insecurities, jealousies, and ineptitude" is to produce.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!”
― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

“Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.'
'I'm pretty good at being me,' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul

“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”
― Mark Twain

“You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.”
― Robin Williams

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.”
― Groucho Marx

“A dream is not reality but who's to say which is which?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Ils sont fous ces romains!”
― René Goscinny

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

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
― Henry Miller

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

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