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“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.”
― Meriwether Lewis

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
― Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson