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  • #1
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #2
    “Each breath
    a gift
    an opportunity
    a beginning”
    Raegan Robinson

  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #4
    William  James
    “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
    William James

  • #5
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #6
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #7
    Gabrielle Zevin
    “He loved the intimacy of being in a tight group of people who had come together, miraculously, for a brief period in time, for the purpose of making art.”
    Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  • #8
    John Green
    “We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
    John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

  • #9
    John Green
    “You can't see the future coming--not the terrors, for sure, but you also can't see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.”
    John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

  • #10
    “All you can do, Rosemary – all any of us can do – is work to be something positive instead. That is a choice that every sapient must make every day of their life. The universe is what we make of it. It’s up to you to decide what part you will play.”
    Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet



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