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  • #1
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #4
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #5
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #6
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #7
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

  • #9
    George Burns
    “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
    George Burns

  • #10
    Charles Dickens
    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #11
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #12
    “It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #15
    “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
    Unsourced, misattributed to Maya Angelou

  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily”
    Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom

  • #17
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #18
    Roy T. Bennett
    “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
    Roy T. Bennett

  • #19
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #20
    Eckhart Tolle
    “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
    Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

  • #21
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The earth laughs in flowers.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #22
    Brian Jacques
    “Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
    Brian Jacques, Taggerung

  • #23
    Susan Polis Schutz
    “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
    susan polis schutz

  • #24
    Victor Hugo
    “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #25
    Arundhati Roy
    “She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #26
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #27
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #28
    John Mark Green
    “One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.”
    John Mark Green

  • #29
    “I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.”
    Herbert Rappaport

  • #30
    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    Nelson Mandela



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