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  • #1
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #2
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Steve Jobs
    “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

  • #5
    Anthony Doerr
    “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #6
    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #7
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #9
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #10
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #11
    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #13
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #14
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #18
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #19
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    John Locke

  • #20
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #21
    Gary Paulsen
    “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
    Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

  • #22
    Lemony Snicket
    “No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #23
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
    Rumi

  • #25
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #26
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #27
    Thomas Sankara
    “Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal or subjective one. It takes place objectively in practice, once women cease to be viewed as mere sexual beings, once we look beyond their biological functions and become conscious of their weight as an active social force. What's more, woman's consciousness of herself is not only a product of her sexuality. It reflects her position as determined by the economic structure of society, which in turn expresses the level reached by humankind in technological development and the relations between classes.

    The importance of dialectical materialism lies in going beyond the inherent limits of biology, rejecting simplistic theories about our being slaves to the nature of our species, and, instead, placing facts in their social and economic context.”
    Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

  • #28
    Paulo Coelho
    “Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #29
    Paulo Coelho
    “We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #30
    Angela Y. Davis
    “Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
    Angela Davis



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