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  • #1
    Bill Watterson
    “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #2
    Bill Watterson
    “I've been thinking Hobbes"
    "On a weekend?"
    "Well, it wasn't on purpose”
    Bill Watterson

  • #3
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #5
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Susanna Kaysen
    “Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.”
    Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

  • #9
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #10
    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    John Lennon

  • #11
    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

  • #12
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #13
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #14
    Nora Ephron
    “Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."

    [Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]”
    Nora Ephron

  • #15
    Nora Ephron
    “Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
    - Sleepless in Seattle”
    Nora Ephron

  • #16
    Nora Ephron
    “There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #17
    Monica Ali
    “Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.”
    Monica Ali, Untold Story

  • #18
    Haruki Murakami
    “In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #19
    J.R. Ward
    “But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place.”
    J.R. Ward, Crave

  • #20
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #21
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “Come to the edge," he said.
    "We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
    "Come to the edge," he said.
    "We can't, We will fall!" they responded.
    "Come to the edge," he said.
    And so they came.
    And he pushed them.
    And they flew.”
    Guillaume Apollinaire

  • #22
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
    Guillaume Apollinaire

  • #23
    Stephen  King
    “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

    Or you don't.”
    Stephen King, The Stand

  • #24
    Chris Cleave
    “A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
    Chris Cleave, Little Bee

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    Albert Camus

  • #26
    Suzanne Collins
    “We could do it, you know."
    "What?"
    "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #27
    “Believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else.”
    Kobi Yamada

  • #28
    “Intense desire not only creates its own possibilities, but its own talents. Don't be afraid to do something just because it's impossible.”
    Kobi Yamada

  • #29
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #30
    Sylvia Plath
    “I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



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