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“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“পড়ার কাজটি অইল অন্যরকম। আপনে যখন মনে করলেন, কোনো বই পইড়্যা ফেলাইলেন, নিজেরে জিগাইবেন যে বইটা পড়ছেন, নিজের ভাষায় বইটা আবার লিখতে পারবেন কিনা। আপনের ভাষার জোর লেখকের মতো শক্তিশালী না অইতে পারে, আপনের শব্দভান্ডার সামান্য অইতে পারে, তথাপি যদি মনে মনে আসল জিনিসটা রিপ্রোডিউস না করবার পারেন, ধইর‍্যা নিবেন , আপনের পড়া অয় নাই।
-প্রফেসর আবদুর রাজ্জাক”
― Ahmed Sofa, যদ্যপি আমার গুরু

“ডিটেকটিভ গল্প সম্বন্ধে অনেকের মনে একটা অবজ্ঞার ভাব আছে—যেন উহা অন্ত্যজ শ্রেণীর সাহিত্য। আমি তাহা মনে করি না। Edgar Allan Poe, Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton যাহা লিখিতে পারেন, তাহা লিখিতে অন্তত আমার লজ্জা নাই।”
― Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

“সব মানুষকে তার দীর্ঘ বা স্বল্প জীবনে নানান অপমানের ভেতর দিয়ে যেতে হয়৷ অপমান আগুনের মতো, মানুষকে শুদ্ধ ও পবিত্র করে।”
― Humayun Ahmed, ফাউন্টেনপেন

“বইয়ের দোকান পরখ করলেই বেবাক সমাজটা কোনদিকে যাইতাছে, হেইডা টের পাওন যায়”
― Ahmed Sofa, যদ্যপি আমার গুরু

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ”
― William Ewart Gladstone

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.”
― Charlie Chaplin

“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.”
― René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
― Austin Phelps

“When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.”
― Vincent Starrett

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost

“Insects sting, not for malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood, not our pain”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human/Beyond Good and Evil

“Failure is very difficult for anyone to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success”
― Maurice Valency

“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.”
― Neil Gaiman

“কিন্তু একটা হুজুগ লইয়া বাঙালি অধিক দিন থাকিতে পারে না। হুজুগ একটু পুরাতন হইলেই বাঙালি পুনরায় নূতন হুজুগের সৃষ্টি করে। অথবা এই বঙ্গভূমির মাটির গুণে আপনা হইতেই নূতন হুজুগের উৎপত্তি হয়।”
― Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay, ডমরু-চরিত

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist.

“Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer."

From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist