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“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison