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  • #1
    Rose Wilder Lane
    “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
    Rose Wilder Lane

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • #3
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “He thought much but said little.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #7
    José Martí
    “Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
    Jose Marti

  • #8
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

  • #9
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

  • #10
    Louis L'Amour
    “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
    Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

  • #11
    Ralph Ellison
    “The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #12
    Anita Loos
    “Memory is more indelible than ink.”
    Anita Loos

  • #13
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #14
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #15
    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  • #16
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother

  • #20
    Claude Monet
    “I must have flowers, always, and always.”
    Claude Monet

  • #21
    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    John Muir

  • #22
    John Muir
    “Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
    John Muir

  • #23
    John Muir
    “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
    John Muir

  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • #25
    “We are the music-makers,
    And we are the dreamers of dreams,
    Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
    And sitting by desolate streams.
    World-losers and world-forsakers,
    Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
    Yet we are the movers and shakers,
    Of the world forever, it seems.”
    Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  • #26
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #27
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings



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