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  • #1
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #2
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

  • #3
    Augustine of Hippo
    “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
    St. Augustine

  • #4
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
    P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Red hair is my life long sorrow.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #7
    L.M. Montgomery
    “You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.”
    L. M. Montgomery

  • #8
    Simone Weil
    “All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
    Simone Weil

  • #9
    Simone Weil
    “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
    Simone Weil

  • #10
    Simone Weil
    “Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
    Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

  • #11
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #12
    Elie Wiesel
    “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #13
    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #14
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “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

  • #15
    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #17
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

  • #18
    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    Aristotle

  • #19
    Charles Lamb
    “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
    Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3

  • #20
    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #21
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

  • #22
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

  • #24
    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #25
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #26
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    Charles Baudelaire

  • #27
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #28
    Flannery O'Connor
    “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #29
    Flannery O'Connor
    “People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #30
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.”
    Flannery O'Connor



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