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  • #1
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #2
    Ved Mehta
    “Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
    Ved Mehta, All for Love

  • #3
    Rick Riordan
    “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #4
    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #5
    Rick Riordan
    “Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.”
    Rick Riordan

  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #7
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #8
    Jostein Gaarder
    “Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

  • #9
    Anne Lamott
    “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #10
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

  • #11
    Paula Fox
    “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

  • #12
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #13
    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

  • #14
    Cynthia Ozick
    “We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
    Cynthia Ozick

  • #15
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #16
    Joseph Heller
    “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #17
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #18
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #19
    Edward Gibbon
    “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
    Edward Gibbon

  • #20
    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
    John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

  • #21
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #22
    Adrienne Rich
    “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #23
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    Thomas Pynchon

  • #24
    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #25
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #26
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    Katharine Hepburn

  • #27
    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

  • #28
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
    Lorraine Hansberry

  • #29
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

  • #30
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    Bill Keane



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