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“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“I’m an adult who does adult things, like taxes and laundry and being sad for no reason.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“It turns out, "hapily ever after" is a moving target. No matter how perfect any one sweater may be, it's only human to crave another. And another, and another.”
― Clara Parkes, The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting