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  • #1
    Confucius
    “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
    Confucius

  • #2
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #3
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #4
    Lisa Schroeder
    “Come with me,' Mom says.
    To the library.
    Books and summertime
    go together.”
    Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

  • #5
    Jamaica Kincaid
    “There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
    Jamaica Kincaid

  • #6
    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    Margaret Fuller

  • #7
    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    John Cheever

  • #8
    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

  • #9
    Studs Terkel
    “Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
    Studs Terkel

  • #10
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #11
    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #12
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • #13
    Alice McDermott
    “We are surrounded by story.”
    Alice McDermott

  • #14
    Oliver Sacks
    “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
    Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

  • #15
    Joe Klein
    “Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
    Joe Klein, Primary Colors

  • #16
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #17
    Patti Smith
    “Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
    Patti Smith, Just Kids

  • #18
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #19
    Neil Gaiman
    “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

    (As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #20
    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    Sara Henderson

  • #21
    Ntozake Shange
    “Where there is a woman there is magic.”
    Ntozake Shange

  • #22
    The constant happiness is curiosity.
    “The constant happiness is curiosity.”
    Alice Munro

  • #23
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #24
    B.K.S. Iyengar
    “The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
    B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

  • #25
    David Sedaris
    “If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
    David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

  • #26
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • #27
    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    John Grisham, The Rainmaker

  • #28
    Marcus Valerius Martialis
    “Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
    Marcus Valerius Martialis

  • #29
    “Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
    Nasir-i Khusraw

  • #30
    Maud Hart Lovelace
    “She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
    Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown



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