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  • #1
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #2
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #3
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #4
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #5
    Pema Chödrön
    “At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.”
    Pema Chödrön

  • #6
    “Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
    Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

  • #7
    John Milton
    “For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
    John Milton, Areopagitica

  • #8
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #9
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #10
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #11
    Lewis Carroll
    “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.”
    Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #13
    Michelle Bartlett
    “Sometimes... the first step to forgiveness is realizing that the other person... is batshit crazy.”
    Michelle Bartlett

  • #14
    Gregg Braden
    “to overcome the fear that may be in our lives today, we must first master the patterns that allow it to exist. Figure 12.”
    Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief

  • #15
    Roberto Bolaño
    “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
    Roberto Bolaño, 2666

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    Eugene V. Debs
    “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
    Eugene Victor Debs

  • #17
    Eugene V. Debs
    “I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think.”
    Eugene V Debs

  • #18
    Eugene V. Debs
    “If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.”
    Eugene V. Debs

  • #19
    Eugene V. Debs
    “Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.”
    Eugene Debs

  • #20
    Eugene V. Debs
    “A privately owned world can never be a free world and a society based upon warring classes cannot stand.”
    Eugene V. Debs, Works of Eugene Victor Debs

  • #21
    Eugene V. Debs
    “To stir the masses, to appeal to their higher, better selves, to set them thinking for themselves, and to hold ever before them the ideal of mutual kindness and good will, based upon mutual interests, is to render real service to the cause of humanity.”
    Eugene V. Debs, Works of Eugene Victor Debs

  • #22
    Eugene V. Debs
    “The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose. He can see a chance for an “opening”; he is cunning enough to know what graft is and where it is, and how it can be secured, but vision he has none-not the slightest. He knows nothing of the great throbbing world that spreads out in all directions. He has no capacity for literature; no appreciation of art; no soul for beauty. That is the penalty the parasites pay for the violation of the laws of life.”
    Eugene V. Debs, Works of Eugene Victor Debs

  • #23
    Eugene V. Debs
    “They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter.”
    Eugene V. Debs, Works of Eugene Victor Debs

  • #24
    Eugene V. Debs
    “He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.”
    Eugene V. Debs, Works of Eugene Victor Debs

  • #25
    Aberjhani
    “The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”
    Author-Poet Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

  • #26
    Ashly Lorenzana
    “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”
    Ashly Lorenzana

  • #27
    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
    Ernesto Che Guevara

  • #28
    June Jordan
    “We must make language accountable to the truths of our experience.”
    June Jordan

  • #29
    Amy Leigh Mercree
    “I nurture my feminine energy and honor my yin power.”
    Amy Leigh Mercree

  • #30
    “Pain and pleasure are the yin and yang of love.”
    J. Earp



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