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  • #1
    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #2
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #3
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #4
    Edward Gibbon
    “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
    Edward Gibbon

  • #5
    Louisa May Alcott
    “...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #6
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #9
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write to discover what I know.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #10
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #11
    Fernando Pessoa
    “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #13
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #13
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #14
    Simon Van Booy
    “Coincidences mean you're on the right path.”
    Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

  • #15
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #16
    Eudora Welty
    “All serious daring starts from within.”
    Eudora Welty, On Writing

  • #17
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #18
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #19
    Yoko Ono
    “Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
    Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
    Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
    Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
    Yoko Ono

  • #20
    John Lubbock
    “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
    John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”
    Albert Camus, A Happy Death

  • #22
    Albert Camus
    “You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.”
    Albert Camus, A Happy Death

  • #23
    Fernando Pessoa
    “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tambours I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #24
    Sarah Waters
    “I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
    Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

  • #25
    Stephen        King
    “But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”
    Stephen King, 11/22/63
    tags: love

  • #26
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

  • #27
    Oprah Winfrey
    “I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #28
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

  • #30
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #31
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches



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