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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“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

“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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

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

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

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

“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower