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  • #1
    Yann Martel
    “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #2
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #3
    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

  • #4
    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #5
    Anne Sexton
    “Watch out for intellect,
    because it knows so much it knows nothing
    and leaves you hanging upside down,
    mouthing knowledge as your heart
    falls out of your mouth.”
    Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

  • #6
    Howard Thurman
    “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
    Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

  • #7
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #8
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #9
    “It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
    Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

  • #10
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #11
    Charles de Lint
    “Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
    Charles de Lint, Moonheart

  • #12
    Baltasar Gracián
    “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
    Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

  • #13
    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

  • #14
    John Grisham
    “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
    John Grisham

  • #15
    Edward Lear
    “And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
    They danced by the light of the moon.”
    Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

  • #16
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #17
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #18
    John Gillespie Magee Jr.
    “Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
    And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”
    John Gillespie MaGee Jr.

  • #19
    Lucille Clifton
    “may you kiss
    the wind then turn from it
    certain that it will
    love your back”
    Lucille Clifton

  • #20
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    Eleanor Hodgman Porter

  • #21
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #22
    John Guare
    “It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
    John Guare, Landscape of the Body

  • #23
    “Believe there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you may be that light for someone else.”
    Kobi Yamada

  • #24
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #25
    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    Karen Blixen

  • #26
    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    Ingmar Bergman

  • #27
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #28
    “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
    Ed Sullivan

  • #29
    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    Adam Lindsay Gordon

  • #30
    Beryl Markham
    “A map says to you.
    Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
    I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
    Beryl Markham



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