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“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

“Italian men are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? ”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Life does often get in the way of one's reading.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls

“You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls

“The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth”
― Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist