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  • #1
    John Ruskin
    “All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”
    John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies

  • #2
    Pola Muzyka
    “When I am alone with God I see that God is really all I have. All that matters. All that will last. At these times I realize that the magnitude of what I have is incomprehensible. Usually I cry for the sheer joy of it. Not tears of defeat, but rather tears of gratitude.”
    Pola Muzyka, Escape The Hezbollah

  • #3
    Mary Roberts Rinehart
    “People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.”
    Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase

  • #4
    C.S. Lewis
    “Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #5
    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #6
    Caroline Gordon
    “A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
    Caroline Gordon

  • #7
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #8
    Mario Puzo
    “I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #9
    Dale Carnegie
    “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
    Dale Carnegie

  • #10
    Chris Abani
    “What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
    Chris Abani

  • #11
    Patricia Highsmith
    “Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
    Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

  • #12
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #13
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #14
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #15
    Jack Kerouac
    “The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

  • #16
    Neil LaBute
    “The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
    Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #19
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #20
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #21
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #22
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #27
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #28
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #29
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #30
    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    Louis L'Amour



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