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“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I can only make one person happy each day.

Today is not your day.

Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.”
― Philip Gulley, Home to Harmony

“Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.”
― Philip Gulley

“...We always look for Christ amid magnificence. But ... Christ has a history of showing up amide the unlovely. Born in a dirty stall. Crowned with thorns. Died gasping on a shameful cross atop a jagged rise.

We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty. It's like George Herbert wrote:
'And here in dust and dirt, O here,
The lilies of God's love appear.'
We think magnificence is in short supply, that dust and dirt choke out the lilies. But that's not true and never was. Lilies may root in dirt, but they reach for heaven—and in the reaching, reveal their magnificence.”
― Philip Gulley, Home to Harmony

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

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

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

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

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
― Aaron Copland

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“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

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
― Yogi Berra, When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men