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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #2
    Steve Jobs
    “Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #3
    Richard Branson
    “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”
    Richard Branson

  • #4
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
    Ben Franklin

  • #5
    C.G. Jung
    “What you resist, persists”
    C.G. Jung

  • #6
    Charles V
    “I speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.”
    Charles V Holy Roman Emperor

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #8
    Bill  Gates
    “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
    Bill Gates

  • #9
    Jonathan Swift
    “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
    Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

  • #10
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
    Benjamin Franklin (attributed, not found in any major work, fake)

  • #11
    Terry Pratchett
    “Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #12
    Jeanette Winterson
    “I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

  • #13
    John D. Rockefeller
    “I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
    John D. Rockefeller

  • #14
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #15
    John  Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #16
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #17
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #18
    Aristotle
    “Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
    Aristotle, Politics

  • #19
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #20
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #21
    Neale Donald Walsch
    “We are all One. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”
    Neale Donald Walsch, What God Said: The 25 Core Messages of Conversations with God That Will Change Your Life and the World

  • #22
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    “C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.”
    Bjarne Stroustrup

  • #23
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
    Thomas Henry Huxley

  • #24
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #25
    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    Seneca the Younger

  • #26
    Plato
    “He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”
    Plato

  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

  • #28
    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”
    Michelangelo

  • #29
    Neale Donald Walsch
    “If you do not go within, you go without.”
    Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, An Uncommon Dialogue: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love - Volume 1

  • #30
    Jim  Butcher
    “We are not going to die."

    Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

    "No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
    Jim Butcher, Dead Beat



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