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“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”
― Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“When I'm Sad I stop being sad, and be awesome instead.”
― Neil Patrick Harris

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.”
― Carlos Bulosan, Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction

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

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
― Hergé, The Shooting Star

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“I love him, she thought, I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames