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  • #1
    Mother Teresa
    “I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #2
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #3
    Mitch Albom
    “God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.”
    Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

  • #4
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #6
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #7
    Jane Goodall
    “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    Jane Goodall

  • #8
    Alan Bradley
    “As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

    No ... eight days a week.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  • #9
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

  • #10
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #11
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    Henry James

  • #12
    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    Walter Cronkite

  • #13
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #14
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #15
    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    Shelby Foote

  • #16
    John Burroughs
    “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
    John Burroughs

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    Linda Grayson

  • #20
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #21
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #22
    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    Mother Teresa

  • #23
    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    Gilda Radner

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #25
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.”
    Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: pain

  • #26
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

  • #27
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #28
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth”
    Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: life

  • #29
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #30
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, The Joys of Love



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