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  • #1
    M.T. Anderson
    “There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.”
    M.T. Anderson, Whales on Stilts: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales

  • #2
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Oscar Levant
    “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
    Oscar Levant

  • #6
    “Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
    Paul Brandt

  • #7
    Confucius
    “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
    Confucious

  • #8
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #10
    George Sand
    “One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
    George Sand

  • #11
    Erin Morgenstern
    “To be rather than to seem.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #12
    Sarah Dessen
    “Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”
    Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

  • #13
    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #14
    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
    listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
    of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
    Leo F. Buscaglia

  • #15
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

  • #16
    Alice Hoffman
    “There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #17
    Alice Hoffman
    “My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #18
    Karen E. Quinones Miller
    “When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
    Karen E. Quinones Miller

  • #19
    Amy Tan
    “I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”
    Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

  • #20
    Lori R. Lopez
    “One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story.”
    Lori R. Lopez, Dance of the Chupacabras

  • #21
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #22
    Andy Warhol
    “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
    Andy Warhol

  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.”
    Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

  • #24
    Kahlil Gibran
    “An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #25
    Fred Rogers
    “The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #27
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #28
    Andy Warhol
    “The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”
    Andy Warhol
    tags: art

  • #29
    Kahlil Gibran
    “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
    Khalil Gibran

  • #30
    Maya Angelou
    “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #31
    Thornton Wilder
    “My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate.”
    Thornton Wilder



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