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“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.”
― Paula Danziger

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“- Soy feliz. Jamás me he sentido tan bien, ¿y tu?
- ¿Yo? - Step la abraza con fuerza-. Estoy de maravilla.
- ¿Hasta el punto de llegar a tocar el cielo con un dedo?
- No, así no.
- ¿Ah, no?
- Mucho más. Al menos tres metros sobre el cielo.”
― Federico Moccia

“El amor más hermoso es un cálculo equivocado, una excepción que confirma la regla, aquello para lo que siempre habías utilizado la palabra "nunca".
Niki - Perdona si te llamo amor.
”
― Federico Moccia

“… y es ahí, justo en ese momento, cuando te das cuenta de que las cosas sólo ocurren una vez, y por mucho que te esfuerces ya nunca volverás a sentir lo mismo, ya nunca tendrás la sensación de estar a tres metros sobre el cielo”.”
― Federico Moccia

“A veces el miedo es una cosa fea. No te deja vivir los momentos más bellos. Es una especie de maldición si no sabes vencerla.”
― Federico Moccia, Tre metri sopra il cielo

“Cada vez que conoces a alguien tu vida cambia y, tanto si te gusta como si no, nosotros nos hemos encontrado; yo he entrado en tu vida y tú en la mía.”
― Federico Moccia, Esta noche dime que me quieres