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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    John Green
    “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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    William Styron
    “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
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    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
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    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
    tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    David Mitchell
    “Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, escape, reading
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    “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
    ― Anne Herbert
    tags: book-lovers, books, money, reading
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: reading
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: inspiration, motivation
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
    ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    tags: love
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, activism, fruit, goodness, make-a-difference
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: make-a-difference, satyagraha
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    Catherine of Siena
    “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
    ― St. Catherine of Siena
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    Robert F. Kennedy
    “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
    ― Robert F. Kennedy
    tags: make-a-difference, purpose-of-life
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Do I dare Disturb the universe?”
    ― T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
    tags: change, courage, dreams, fear, make-a-difference
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    Edward Everett Hale
    “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”
    ― Edward Everett Hale
    tags: action, incrementalism, make-a-difference
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    Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
    “Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Mother Teresa
    “Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: charity, christian-behavior, compassion, helping-others, love, paraphrased, service
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    Mother Teresa
    “Give, but give until it hurts.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: charity, compassion, giving, helping-others
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    Mandy Hale
    “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: be-the-change, beauty, helping-hand, helping-others, helping-people, inner-beauty, making-a-difference, positive-thinking, setting-an-example, true-beauty
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    Warren Buffett
    “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: charity, finance, helping-others, inspiration, noblesse-oblige, success
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    Alexis Hall
    “In any case, I wasn’t prepared for the truth of you.”
    ― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material
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