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  • #1
    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #2
    John Steinbeck
    “They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #3
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #6
    Jane Goodall
    “Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”
    Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

  • #7
    José Luís Peixoto
    “Doía-me a vida, doía-me a vida que em ti se negava, a vida a gastar-te, ainda que a amasses, a vida a derrubar-te, ainda que a amasses.”
    José Luís Peixoto, Morreste-me

  • #8
    José Luís Peixoto
    “Como eu, esperavam;não a morte, que nós, seres incautos, fechamos-lhe sempre os olhos na esperança pálida de que, se não a virmos, ela não nos verá.”
    José Luís Peixoto, Morreste-me

  • #9
    George Gissing
    “The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”
    George Gissing

  • #10
    Anne Brontë
    “there is always a but in this imperfect world!”
    Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Juvenal
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

  • #13
    Jean Rhys
    “Blot out the moon,
    Pull down the stars.
    Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
    So soon, so soon.”
    Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Akiah Watts
    “The pursuit of happiness is internal.”
    Akiah Watts, Fragments

  • #17
    Madeline Miller
    “I am made of memories.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #20
    “The mind is no greater than its intelligence, the heart no larger than its kindness, the body no stronger than its endurance, and the soul no wealthier than its love.”
    Matshona Dhliwayo

  • #21
    Arundhati Roy
    “Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”
    Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

  • #22
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #23
    “Become braver, stronger, wiser, kinder, and you will become better.”
    Matshona Dhliwayo

  • #24
    Robert D. Kaplan
    “You don’t grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.”
    Robert D. Kaplan, In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

  • #25
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #26
    Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
    “Mar
    Metade da minha alma é feita de maresia”
    Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Mar
    tags: mar

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

  • #29
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #30
    John Joseph Powell
    “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
    John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love



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