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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“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

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I wasn’t floating on my little raft in the present; there were bridges that led over to solid ground. Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

Literature is common ground. It is ground not managed wholly by commercial interests, nor can it be strip-mined like popular culture—exploit the new thing then move on.

There’s a lot of talk about the tame world versus the wild world. It is not only a wild nature that we need as human beings; it is the untamed open space of our imaginations.

Reading is where the wild things are.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Het is een kwestie van durven, meer niet. Dat geldt voor alle kunst, dus ook voor die van het leven”
― Arthur Japin, Vaslav

“Zo komt elke angst in de wereld, zomaar, omdat iemand op een dag besluit te geloven dat er een gevaar bestaat.”
― Arthur Japin, De overgave

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi