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  • #1
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    Voltaire

  • #2
    Abigail Adams
    “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
    Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

  • #3
    William Gibson
    “The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
    William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

  • #4
    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    Hal Borland

  • #5
    Shel Silverstein
    “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
    Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

  • #6
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #7
    Tom Wolfe
    “You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
    Tom Wolfe

  • #8
    Sylvia Beach
    “I am a citizen of the world.”
    Sylvia Beach

  • #9
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

  • #10
    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    Karen Blixen

  • #11
    Constantinos P. Cavafy
    “When you set sail for Ithaca,
    wish for the road to be long,
    full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
    C.P. Cavafy

  • #12
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #13
    Jerry Garcia
    “What a long strange trip it's been.”
    Jerry Garcia

  • #14
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #15
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #16
    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #17
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
    Lorraine Hansberry

  • #18
    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #19
    Michael Chabon
    “There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
    Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
    tags: life

  • #20
    “Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
    Sara Henderson

  • #21
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #22
    E.E. Cummings
    “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
    It's always our self we find in the sea.”
    e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

  • #23
    Emma Donoghue
    “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
    Emma Donoghue, Room

  • #24
    Walker Evans
    “Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
    Walker Evans

  • #25
    Philippe Ariès
    “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
    Philippe Ariès

  • #26
    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

  • #27
    Jamaica Kincaid
    “Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
    Jamaica Kincaid

  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #29
    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    “Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.”
    Doris Kearns Goodwin

  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five



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