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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Well? What do you have to say to me? You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frame—of everything.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake."

"A habit. ”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. ”
― Anaïs Nin

“Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

“A burnt child loves the fire.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”
― Alexis Carrel

“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.
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John Green's tumblr says he did not in fact write this quote and it is not from his book, Looking For Alaska”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours. Life and the Universe—be they reality or illusion—belong to everyone. Everyone can see what I see and have what I have, or can at least imagine himself seeing it and having it, and this is.....
But no one besides me can see or have the things I dream. And if I see the outer world differently from how others see it, it's because I inadvertently incorporate, into what I see, the things from my dreams that stuck to my eyes and ears.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition