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  • #1
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #2
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #3
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #5
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #7
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The earth laughs in flowers.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #10
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #11
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #12
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays, First Series

  • #13
    Lemony Snicket
    “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #19
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #21
    Lemony Snicket
    “But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #22
    Lemony Snicket
    “Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #23
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #24
    Lemony Snicket
    “One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #26
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “Sometimes words are not enough.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #28
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #29
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #30
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #31
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero



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