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  • #1
    Helen Keller
    “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
    Helen Keller, The Open Door

  • #2
    Randy Pausch
    “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #3
    Abraham Lincoln
    “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #4
    Abraham Lincoln
    “The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
    Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832–1858

  • #5
    Abraham Lincoln
    “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #6
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

  • #7
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #8
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #9
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #10
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #12
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “What is to give light must endure burning.”
    Victor Frankl

  • #13
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #14
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #15
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #16
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #17
    Carl Sagan
    “It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?”
    Carl Sagan

  • #18
    John Green
    “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
    John Green

  • #19
    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    John Green

  • #20
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #21
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #22
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #23
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald

  • #24
    Paulo Coelho
    “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #25
    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Victor Hugo
    “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #28
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #29
    Carl Sagan
    “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #30
    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    Carl Gustav Jung



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