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  • #1
    Anne Lamott
    “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #2
    “We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.”
    Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

  • #3
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #4
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

  • #5
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #7
    Francis of Assisi
    “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
    St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

  • #8
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

  • #9
    Dieter F. Uchtdorf
    “Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.”
    Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  • #10
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #13
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #15
    Richard Bach
    “Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
    Richard Bach

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

  • #18
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #19
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #19
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #20
    Gemma Malley
    “I love you, Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and as Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus anymore. And nor was Peter.

    Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.

    You couldn't be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn't be a Surplus if you were loved.”
    Gemma Malley, The Declaration

  • #22
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #23
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #23
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #24
    Natalie Babbitt
    “Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
    Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

  • #25
    Aristotle
    “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
    Aristotle

  • #26
    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    Anne Bronte

  • #27
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “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

  • #28
    C.S. Lewis
    “I am [in your world].’ said Aslan. ‘But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

  • #29
    Lisa Mangum
    “The world is full of impossibilities - some beautiful, some terrible - but sometimes, when you least expect it, they can become possible.”
    Lisa Mangum, The Forgotten Locket

  • #30
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “The beginning is always today.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft

  • #31
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols



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