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  • #1
    Margaret Walker
    “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
    Margaret Walker

  • #2
    Paulo Coelho
    “Tears are words that need to be written.”
    Paulo Coelho

  • #3
    John Muir
    “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
    John Muir

  • #4
    “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
    Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

  • #5
    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #7
    Anne Frank
    “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #8
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #9
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #10
    Kurt Cobain
    “I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
    Kurt Cobain

  • #11
    Louis L'Amour
    “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
    Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

  • #12
    Fannie Flagg
    “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #13
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    Moliere

  • #14
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #15
    Mitch Albom
    “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
    Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

  • #16
    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook



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