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  • #1
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “Live not for Battles Won.
    Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
    Live in the along.”
    Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

  • #2
    Leo Rosten
    “O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
    Leo Rosten

  • #3
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #4
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #5
    Helen Keller
    “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
    Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #7
    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    E. B. White

  • #8
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.

  • #9
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

  • #10
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #11
    Ted Hughes
    “The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
    Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

  • #12
    Martin Amis
    “Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”
    Martin Amis, The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

  • #13
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #14
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

  • #15
    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #17
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
    Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

  • #18
    T.S. Eliot
    “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

  • #19
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    “To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

  • #20
    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Doris Lessing
    “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
    Doris Lessing

  • #23
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains

  • #24
    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

  • #25
    Zig Ziglar
    “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
    Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

  • #26
    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    Howard Nemerov

  • #27
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

  • #28
    Steve Jobs
    “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #29
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #30
    Paulo Coelho
    “You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.”
    Paulo Coelho



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