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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

  • #3
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

  • #4
    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

  • #5
    Isaac Marion
    “Just... ate," M says, frowning at me a little. "Two days...ago."
    I grab my stomach again. "Feel empty. Feel... dead."
    He nods. "Marr...iage.”
    Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
    tags: humor

  • #6
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #7
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #8
    Dan    Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

  • #9
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #10
    Katharine Lee Bates
    “O beautiful for spacious skies
    for amber waves of grain”
    Katharine Lee Bates

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

  • #12
    Eugene Field
    “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    Eugene Field

  • #13
    Shel Silverstein
    “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
    Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

  • #14
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #16
    Elizabeth Strout
    “I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
    Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

  • #17
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #18
    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

  • #19
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
    “You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    Rumi

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #24
    I am here to live out loud.
    “I am here to live out loud.”
    Emila Zola

  • #25
    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

  • #26
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #27
    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    John Banville, The Sea

  • #28
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #29
    So many things become beautiful when you really look.
    “So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
    Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

  • #30
    Neil Gaiman
    “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

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



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