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“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

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

“Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”
― Shirley Hazzard

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

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

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

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

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

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
― Miranda July

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett