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  • #1
    Mary Higgins Clark
    “When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
    Mary Higgins Clark

  • #2
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    Euripides, The Bacchae

  • #3
    Fannie Flagg
    “Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #4
    James Herriot
    “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
    James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

  • #5
    Rita Mae Brown
    “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
    Rita Mae Brown

  • #6
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #7
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #8
    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    Bill Nye

  • #9
    Selma Lagerlöf
    “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
    Selma Lagerlöf

  • #10
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    Abigail Van Buren

  • #11
    Lilian Jackson Braun
    “People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.”
    Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

  • #12
    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #13
    Kate Chopin
    “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening

  • #14
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #15
    E.Y. Harburg
    “Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
    E.Y. Harburg

  • #16
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #17
    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    August Wilson

  • #18
    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    Anita Desai

  • #19
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #20
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #21
    Bob Newhart
    “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
    Bob Newhart

  • #22
    Harvey Pekar
    “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
    Harvey Pekar

  • #23
    Helen Hooven Santmyer
    “In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday. Time was an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. And how strange that in your mind you did not feel any older. You were the same person, but where had the years gone?”
    Helen Hooven Santmyer, ...And Ladies of the Club

  • #24
    Alice Childress
    “Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
    Alice Childress

  • #25
    Rose Wilder Lane
    “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
    Rose Wilder Lane

  • #26
    “All is calm, all is bright.”
    Joseph Mohr

  • #27
    Katharine Weber
    “Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
    Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

  • #28
    Paula Poundstone
    “Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
    Paula Poundstone

  • #29
    Edith Wharton
    “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
    Edith Wharton

  • #30
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    Stephen Hawking



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