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  • #1
    “The more possessions, the more aggravation. Jewish prayer book.”
    Jewish religion

  • #2
    Margaret Walker
    “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
    Margaret Walker

  • #3
    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

  • #4
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #5
    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

  • #7
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #8
    Winston Churchill
    “If you're going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #9
    Mary Higgins Clark
    “The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry.”
    Mary Higgins Clark, I've Got You Under My Skin

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

  • #14
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #15
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #16
    Robert Browning
    “Who hears music, feels his solitude
    Peopled at once.”
    Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

  • #17
    William Congreve
    “Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
    William Congreve

  • #19
    “From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two — the “race” of the decent man and the “race” of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people.”
    Victor Frankel

  • #20
    Charles Dickens
    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #21
    Thomas Merton
    “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. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
    Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island



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