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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #9
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #10
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #11
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #13
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #14
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #15
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #16
    Honoré de Balzac
    “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

  • #17
    Mother Teresa
    “Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #18
    Alan W. Watts
    “One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
    Alan Wilson Watts, Psychotherapy East and West

  • #19
    “Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz”
    James Baraz

  • #20
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #21
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
    Keep in the sunlight.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #22
    Michael Crichton
    “I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
    Michael Crichton

  • #23
    Noam Chomsky
    “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #24
    Randy Pausch
    “If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out... Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #25
    Books. Cats. Life is Good.
    “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #26
    Lois Lowry
    “Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
    Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue



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