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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.”
    Michelangelo

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #6
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
    Mozart

  • #6
    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #9
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    Clare Boothe Luce

  • #10
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #11
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #11
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #12
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #14
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #17
    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #18
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #19
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #20
    “I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.”
    Kara Walker

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #22
    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

  • #23
    Laura Sebastian
    “We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive. We do not apologize for them,” she says quietly, eyes never leaving mine. “Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike.”
    Laura Sebastian, Ash Princess

  • #24
    William Shakespeare
    “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #25
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #26
    Jill Biden
    “Good marriages push us—not to become someone else but to become the best version of ourselves.”
    Jill Biden, Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself

  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Where there is love there is life.”
    Mahatma Gandhi



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