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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #2
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #3
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #5
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #6
    Leon C. Megginson
    “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
    Leon C. Megginson

  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #8
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #9
    George Harrison
    “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
    George Harrison

  • #10
    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #11
    Lewis Carroll
    “He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #12
    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #13
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #14
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #15
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #16
    Plato
    “How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”
    Plato

  • #17
    Plato
    “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
    Plato

  • #18
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #20
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #21
    “I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die”
    M.T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs

  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Michael Rostovtzeff
    “For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.”
    Michael I. Rostovtzeff

  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #26
    Oprah Winfrey
    “I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”
    Oprah Winfrey



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