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  • #1
    Orson Scott Card
    “This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
    Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

  • #2
    Orson Scott Card
    “To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.”
    Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

  • #3
    Jostein Gaarder
    “Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

  • #4
    Jostein Gaarder
    “I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

  • #5
    Jostein Gaarder
    “You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

  • #6
    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

  • #7
    Geraldine Brooks
    “A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”
    Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book

  • #8
    Amy Tan
    “I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
    Amy Tan

  • #9
    Amy Tan
    “Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?”
    Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

  • #10
    Denis Waitley
    “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
    Denis Waitley

  • #11
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #12
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

  • #13
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #15
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #16
    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #17
    C.S. Lewis
    “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #18
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • #19
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
    Martin Luther King, Jr

  • #20
    John Steinbeck
    “We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #21
    John Steinbeck
    “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #22
    John Steinbeck
    “I guess there are never enough books.”
    John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

  • #23
    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #24
    John Steinbeck
    “I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America



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