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“For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
― John, The Book of John

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“My eyes have never seen the moon so lovely as tonight;
In silence wrapped, it is the breathless music of the night.”
― Galaktion Tabidze, Эфемеры Галактиона Табидзе и Веры Горт

“A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”
― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.”
― Michael P. Watson

“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
― Beatrix Potter

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

“I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

“I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.”
― Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster

“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.”
― Kathleen Norris

“My Heart's In The Highlands



Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Chorus.-My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow,
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
My heart's in the Highlands, &c.”
― Robert Burns

“Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.”
― M.C. Beaton, As the Pig Turns

“Snakes and bastards!”
― M. C. Beaton

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
― Hazel Rochman

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
― Harold Bloom

“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“The human heart will never wrinkle.”
― Madame de Sévigné, Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2

“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds or thinking about what you would like to be doing out of doors, instead of flogging yourself to work out of sheer boredom.”
― Mary Stewart, Thornyhold