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“I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Glass Case

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

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

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider

“We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power.”
― Atiq Rahimi, Earth and Ashes

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

“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

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.”
― Jim Stovall, The Ultimate Gift

“... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.”
― Jim Stovall

“Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens.”
― Jennifer Manske Fenske, The Wide Smiles of Girls