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“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
― Nikola Tesla

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.”
― Regina Brett

“Even in the darkest of places, there is light. Never lose hope.”
― Melissa Burke

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.”
― Laura Gilpin

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
― Jane Austen

“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.”
― Akira Kurosawa, Yume

“If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

“Like the scorpion said to the maiden as she lay dying, ‘You knowed I was poison when you picked me up.’ ”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.”
― Naya Rivera

“The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man.”
― Anonymous

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”
― John Ruskin

“There is a light at the end of every tunnel. Some tunnels just happen to be longer than others.”
― Ada Adams

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”
― Harvey MacKay

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road