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  • #1
    Andy Andrews
    “Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.”
    Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

  • #2
    Andy Andrews
    “I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”
    Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

  • #3
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #7
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #8
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #9
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #10
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #11
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #12
    Joseph Joubert
    “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
    Joseph Joubert

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #14
    Malcolm X
    “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
    Malcolm X

  • #15
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #16
    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    Margaret Fuller

  • #17
    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #18
    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    David Baldacci
    “Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
    David Baldacci, The Camel Club

  • #22
    Charles Dickens
    “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #23
    “I will never let you fall
    I'll stand up with you forever
    I'll be there for you through it all
    Even if saving you sends me to heaven”
    Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

  • #24
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #25
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #26
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
    No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #27
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #28
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #29
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #30
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.”
    Dalai Lama XIV



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