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“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year

tags: inspirational, love

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#2

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

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#3

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

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#4

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

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#5

“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
― Patricia A. McKillip

tags: imagination

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#6

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

tags: optimism, pessimism

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#7

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

tags: hope, sun

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#8

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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#9

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

tags: reading

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#10

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

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#11

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

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#12

“Never say more than is necessary.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan

tags: essay, history

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#13

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#14

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

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#15

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#16

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

tags: philosophy, religion, science

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#17

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: romance, storytelling

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#18

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

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#19

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

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#20

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

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#21

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life

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#22

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

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#23

“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

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#24

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#25

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

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#26

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

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#27

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: courage, reputation

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#28

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

tags: writing-words

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#29

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

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#30

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: heartache, love

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