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  • #1
    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    Anne Frank

  • #2
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #4
    Alice Walker
    “Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple
    tags: love

  • #5
    Amy Tan
    “Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”
    Amy Tan

  • #6
    William Faulkner
    “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
    William Faulkner

  • #7
    Wang Ping
    “when the mind is full, the room ceases to be empty”
    Wang Ping, Of Flesh & Spirit

  • #8
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

  • #9
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
    W.E.B. DuBois

  • #10
    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    Socrates

  • #11
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never, never, never give in!”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #12
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #13
    Confucius
    “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
    Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

  • #14
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #15
    William Penn
    “Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
    William Penn

  • #16
    Jimi Hendrix
    “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    Jimi Hendrix

  • #17
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #18
    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    Jimi Hendrix

  • #19
    Anton Chekhov
    “You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #20
    Anton Chekhov
    “If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #21
    Anton Chekhov
    “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

  • #22
    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

  • #23
    William  James
    “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
    William James

  • #24
    Alexander Pushkin
    “I want to understand you,
    I study your obscure language.”
    Alexander Pushkin

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.”
    Albert Camus

  • #26
    Albert Camus
    “Am well. Thinking of you always. Love”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #27
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
    Johann wolfgang von Goethe

  • #28
    Frantz Fanon
    “Mastery of language affords remarkable power.”
    Frantz Fanon

  • #29
    Frantz Fanon
    “In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”
    Frantz Fanon

  • #30
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “There is always something left to love.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude



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