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  • #1
    Carl R. Rogers
    “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
    Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

  • #2
    Carl R. Rogers
    “What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.”
    Carl R. Rogers

  • #3
    Carl R. Rogers
    “I'm not perfect... But I'm enough.”
    Carl R. Rogers

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Archibald MacLeish
    “What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."

    [The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
    Archibald MacLeish

  • #6
    Victor Hugo
    “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #7
    Victor Hugo
    “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #8
    Victor Hugo
    “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #9
    Victor Hugo
    “A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."

    À qui la faute? (1872)”
    Victor Hugo

  • #10
    Carl R. Rogers
    “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
    Carl R. Rogers

  • #11
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #13
    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    Shelby Foote

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”
    And she sprinted away, up the stairs.
    What does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.
    “Loads more than I do,” said Ron, shaking his head.
    “But why’s she got to go to the library?”
    “Because that’s what Hermione does,” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the library.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #15
    T.S. Eliot
    “The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #16
    Albert Einstein
    “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #17
    Anatole France
    “Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
    Anatole France

  • #18
    Erasmus
    “Your library is your paradise.”
    Desiderius Erasmus

  • #19
    Leslie Knope
    “The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.”
    Leslie Knope

  • #20
    Victor Hugo
    “To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #21
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #22
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    George Eliot

  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #24
    Nancy Pearl
    “If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.

    If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
    Nancy Pearl

  • #25
    Steve Maraboli
    “You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #26
    J.M. Barrie
    “It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #27
    Robert Frost
    “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
    Robert Frost

  • #28
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

  • #29
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
    Frank Lloyd Wright

  • #30
    John Lubbock
    “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
    John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life



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