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  • #1
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    Katharine Hepburn

  • #2
    Anderson Cooper
    “The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
    Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

  • #3
    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #4
    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    Anne Frank

  • #5
    Bei Dao
    “In the world I am
    Always a stranger
    I do not understand its language
    It does not understand my silence”
    Bei Dao

  • #6
    Thor Heyerdahl
    “Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
    Thor Heyerdahl

  • #7
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • #8
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

  • #9
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #10
    Karen Marie Moning
    “The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”
    Karen Marie Moning

  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”
    chuck palahniuk

  • #12
    “Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.”
    Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

  • #13
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #14
    Sherwood Anderson
    “Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
    Sherwood Anderson

  • #15
    Jude Deveraux
    “Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
    Jude Deveraux

  • #16
    Fannie Flagg
    “Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #17
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #18
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #19
    Zadie Smith
    “The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
    Zadie Smith

  • #20
    Robert Frost
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
    Robert Frost

  • #21
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #22
    Henry Green
    “To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
    Henry Green

  • #23
    Rasheed Ogunlaru
    “Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.”
    Rasheed Ogunlaru

  • #24
    Rasheed Ogunlaru
    “Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.”
    Rasheed Ogunlaru

  • #25
    Rasheed Ogunlaru
    “There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.”
    Rasheed Ogunlaru

  • #26
    Rasheed Ogunlaru
    “Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.”
    Rasheed Ogunlaru

  • #27
    Dale Carnegie
    “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
    Dale Carnegie

  • #28
    Rasheed Ogunlaru
    “You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.”
    Rasheed Ogunlaru

  • #29
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

  • #30
    Walker Evans
    “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
    Walker Evans



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