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  • #1
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #2
    Ira Gershwin
    “The way you wear your hat,
    The way you sip your tea,
    The mem'ry of all that --
    No, no! They can't take that away from me!”
    Ira Gershwin

  • #3
    William Golding
    “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
    William Golding

  • #4
    “Tis the night—the night
    Of the grave's delight,
    And the warlocks are at their play;
    Ye think that without,
    The wild winds shout,
    But no, it is they—it is they!”
    Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween: A Romaunt

  • #5
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

  • #6
    Armistead Maupin
    “Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
    Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

  • #7
    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

  • #8
    Charles Eames
    “Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
    Charles Eames

  • #9
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #10
    Jane Addams
    “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
    Jane Addams

  • #11
    James Herriot
    “Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
    James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

  • #12
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  • #13
    Yann Martel
    “It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #14
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #15
    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    Adam Lindsay Gordon

  • #16
    Jim C. Hines
    “1. Bullying is not okay. Period.

    2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

    3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up.”
    Jim C. Hines

  • #17
    Jim C. Hines
    “Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

    [Blog post, March 12, 2012]”
    Jim C. Hines

  • #18
    Jim C. Hines
    “Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an asshole."

    [Blog post of July 26, 2011]”
    Jim C. Hines

  • #19
    Rebecca  Walker
    “. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
    Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence



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