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  • #1
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #2
    E.E. Cummings
    “and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
    and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #5
    Shirley Hazzard
    “Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”
    Shirley Hazzard

  • #6
    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

  • #7
    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    Sinclair Lewis

  • #8
    Kate Chopin
    “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening

  • #9
    Lydia Maria Child
    “Over the river and through the wood
    To grandfather's house we go”
    Lydia Maria Francis Child

  • #10
    Tom Wolfe
    “You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
    Tom Wolfe

  • #11
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #12
    Steve Wozniak
    “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
    Steve Wozniak

  • #13
    Rob Reiner
    “Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
    Rob Reiner

  • #14
    Rebecca Wells
    “It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”
    Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    tags: life

  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #16
    Ben Okri
    “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
    Ben Okri

  • #17
    Jonathan Ames
    “I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
    Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

  • #18
    Kate DiCamillo
    “Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
    Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  • #19
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    Erica Jong

  • #20
    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    Rene Descartes

  • #21
    Émile Zola
    “Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
    Emile Zola

  • #22
    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    Washington Irving

  • #23
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #24
    Seamus Heaney
    “If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
    Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

  • #25
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #26
    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

  • #27
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #28
    David Guterson
    “Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
    David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

  • #29
    Nellie Bly
    “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
    Nellie Bly

  • #30
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds



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