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  • #1
    Henry Van Dyke
    “Time is
    Too Slow for those who Wait,
    Too Swift for those who Fear,
    Too Long for those who Grieve,
    Too Short for those who Rejoice;
    But for those who Love,
    Time is not.”
    Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

  • #2
    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

  • #3
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #4
    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #5
    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • #6
    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #7
    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #10
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #11
    Roald Amundsen
    “Adventure is just bad planning.”
    Roald Amundsen

  • #12
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    Edward Albee

  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #16
    George Plimpton
    “I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
    George Plimpton

  • #17
    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    Hal Borland

  • #18
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #19
    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #20
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

  • #21
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #22
    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #23
    Eudora Welty
    “All serious daring starts from within.”
    Eudora Welty, On Writing

  • #24
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #25
    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

  • #26
    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    Bram Stoker

  • #27
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
    Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

  • #28
    Rachel Carson
    “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
    Rachel Carson

  • #29
    Christopher Marlowe
    “Make me immortal with a kiss.”
    Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

  • #30
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
    Marilyn Monroe



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