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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #3
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Alex Michaelides
    “Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”
    Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

  • #8
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #9
    C.S. Lewis
    “A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
    C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.”
    C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.”
    C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

  • #12
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #13
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    Soren Kierkegaard

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain



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