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  • #1
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #2
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #3
    David  Mitchell
    “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #4
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

  • #5
    Mary Higgins Clark
    “Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
    Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

  • #6
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    Abigail Van Buren

  • #7
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #8
    Neil LaBute
    “The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
    Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

  • #9
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #10
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #11
    Alice Childress
    “Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
    Alice Childress

  • #12
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #13
    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    Henry Green

  • #14
    Rebecca  Walker
    “. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
    Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

  • #15
    A.A. Milne
    “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #16
    Lucille Clifton
    “You might as well answer the door, my child,
    the truth is furiously knocking.”
    Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #18
    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    Lev Grossman, The Magicians

  • #19
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #20
    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    Chico Xavier

  • #21
    Lynne Rae Perkins
    “Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.”
    Lynne Rae Perkins

  • #22
    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    Jonathan Kellerman

  • #23
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

  • #24
    Andre Dubus III
    “The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
    Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

  • #25
    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    Sara Henderson

  • #26
    Tracy Kidder
    “... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”
    Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

  • #27
    Nalo Hopkinson
    “The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
    Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring

  • #28
    Vera Brittain
    “There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
    Vera Brittain

  • #29
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #30
    Vicki Baum
    “There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
    Vicki Baum, Ballerina



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