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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #2
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #3
    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    Adam Lindsay Gordon

  • #4
    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    Washington Irving

  • #5
    “Faith reaches out to where reason points and does not limit itself to where reason stops.”
    Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How To Help Seekers And Skeptics Find Faith

  • #6
    Charles Dickens
    “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #7
    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #8
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #9
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #10
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #11
    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    Hal Borland

  • #12
    Anne Lamott
    “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #13
    Cynthia Ozick
    “We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
    Cynthia Ozick

  • #14
    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

  • #15
    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

  • #16
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #17
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    Euripides, The Bacchae

  • #18
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “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

  • #19
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
    Ashleigh Brilliant

  • #20
    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

  • #21
    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #22
    Anthony  Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #23
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #24
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #25
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #26
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #27
    Anne Brontë
    “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
    Anne Brontë

  • #28
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    Abigail Van Buren

  • #29
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #30
    Boris Pasternak
    “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



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