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“Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
― Ai Qing

“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
― Anna Sewell , Black Beauty

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde