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

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

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

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

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

“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

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

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames

“É a primeira vez que lhe toca na pele nua.
A reacção no ar é imediata. Uma corrente súbita de energia tonificante e luminosa ondula através da sala. O candelabro começa a tremer.
A sensação que passa vertiginosamente pela pele de Marco é intensa e profunda, iniciando-se no ponto onde a palma da mão se encontra com a dela, mas alastrando-se a partir daí, numa distância maior e mais profunda”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

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

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon