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  • #1
    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #2
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #3
    Abigail Adams
    “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
    Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

  • #4
    Charles M. Schulz
    “What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #5
    Marguerite Duras
    “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
    Marguerite Duras

  • #6
    Charlie Chaplin
    “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
    Charlie Chaplin

  • #7
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #8
    Janet Frame
    “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
    Janet Frame

  • #9
    Walker Evans
    “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
    Walker Evans

  • #10
    Anthony  Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #12
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    Moliere

  • #13
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #14
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #15
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom

  • #16
    Anne Enright
    “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
    Anne Enright, The Gathering

  • #17
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #18
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #19
    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    Raymond Carver

  • #20
    Shauna Niequist
    “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”
    Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

  • #21
    Emery Lord
    “I know this feeling of being a ghost in your own life - no one sees you, no one feels you, so you stay still as if you could actually disappear at any moment.”
    Emery Lord, When We Collided

  • #22
    Emery Lord
    “No matter what heaven you believe in, your time on this earth will end. What I’m saying is that you should listen—really listen—to the slosh of the waves and the distant call of Pacific birds. You should feel a boy’s pulse against your cheek; you should fill your lungs with ocean air. While you can, I mean. You should do these things while you still can.”
    Emery Lord, When We Collided

  • #23
    “I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.”
    Charmaine J. Forde

  • #24
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou



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