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  • #1
    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • #2
    Amor Towles
    “...be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you.”
    Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

  • #3
    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #4
    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #5
    Jude Deveraux
    “Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
    Jude Deveraux

  • #6
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #7
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #8
    Ian Fleming
    “Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
    Ian Fleming

  • #9
    Maurice Sendak
    “Let the wild rumpus start!”
    Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

  • #10
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #11
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #12
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #13
    Bob Newhart
    “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
    Bob Newhart

  • #14
    Louise Rennison
    “Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.”
    Louise Rennison, Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

  • #15
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

  • #16
    Allan Gurganus
    “Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
    Allan Gurganus

  • #17
    Cherie Priest
    “And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
    Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

  • #18
    Harper Lee
    “No I’m not. It might benefit you to go back and have a look at what some of our founding fathers really believed, instead of relying so much on what people these days tell you they believed.”
    Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

  • #19
    Harper Lee
    “I heard ‘Equal rights for all; special privileges for none,’ and to me it didn’t mean anything but what it said.”
    Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

  • #20
    Carole Radziwill
    “Afterward I tried to find something to explain what had happened—was it cloudy, were the stars out? But the night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren’t doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.”
    Carole Radziwill, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

  • #21
    Carole Radziwill
    “Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it.”
    Carole Radziwill, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

  • #22
    Po Bronson
    “We've all lost something along the way.”
    Po Bronson, "Why Do I Love These People?": Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family

  • #23
    Po Bronson
    “If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon”
    Po Bronson

  • #24
    Po Bronson
    “Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”
    Po Bronson

  • #25
    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    George Orwell

  • #26
    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #27
    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #28
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #29
    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    Zig Ziglar

  • #30
    Jeffrey Pfeffer
    “Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.”
    Jeffrey Pfeffer



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