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  • #1
    Jostein Gaarder
    “Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

  • #4
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #6
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We do not know what things look like.
    We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #10
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “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

  • #12
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #13
    Mitch Albom
    “After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise.
    God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For they are my children,too.”
    Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

  • #14
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket



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