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“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“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

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
― Arundhati Roy