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“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me