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“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.”
― Mark Jenkins

“You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”
― Edmund Hillary, High Adventure: The True Story Of The First Ascent Of Everest

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
― George Mallory

“3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity

“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”
― A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.”
― Millard Fuller

“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”
― Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style

“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”
― Elsie de Wolfe