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  • #1
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #2
    William  James
    “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
    William James

  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: hope

  • #4
    Barack Obama
    “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
    Barack Obama

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    Jose Marti

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #8
    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #10
    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    Henry Ford

  • #11
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #12
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #13
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.

    In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

  • #14
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    Margaret Mitchell

  • #15
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
    John Greenleaf Whittier

  • #16
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away—until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #18
    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    Albert Camus



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