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  • #1
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #2
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

    [Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]
    John F. Kennedy

  • #3
    Ethan Hawke
    “Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”
    Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State

  • #4
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #5
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #8
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #9
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    John Updike
    “Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
    John Updike, Self-Consciousness

  • #13
    Ovid
    “Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
    Ovid, Heroides

  • #14
    Desmond Tutu
    “Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”
    desmond tutu

  • #15
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

  • #16
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    Woody Allen

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #19
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #20
    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

  • #21
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #24
    Alice Hoffman
    “Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #25
    Joshua Ferris
    “To conform is to lose your soul”
    Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End

  • #26
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #27
    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    Robert Frost

  • #28
    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

  • #29
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #30
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can make anything by writing.”
    C.S. Lewis



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