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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!”
― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa

“You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.”
― Leon Degrelle

“What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her.
The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

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

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
― Voltaire

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Do not accept an evil you can change.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Things are finally going my way. In fact, they’re going great! I have a chance to live after all! LOG ENTRY: SOL 37 I am fucked, and I’m gonna die!”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World