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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #4
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #10
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #12
    “When you think about the wasted time, you waste your time again.”
    Steven Shaw

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #15
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #17
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #19
    Elspeth Huxley
    “How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
    Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

  • #20
    Hilaire Belloc
    “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
    Hilaire Belloc

  • #21
    Giorgio Vasari
    “These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.”
    Giorgio Vasari

  • #22
    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    James Baldwin

  • #23
    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #24
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #25
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Puns are the highest form of literature.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #26
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
    Yves Saint Laurent

  • #27
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #28
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

  • #29
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #30
    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    Mary Renault, The Persian Boy



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