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  • #1
    Victor Hugo
    “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
    Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

  • #6
    Andrew  Davidson
    “If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
    Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

  • #7
    Andrew  Davidson
    “Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.”
    Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

  • #8
    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

  • #9
    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #10
    “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
    Daphne Rae, Love Until It Hurts: The Work of Mother Teresa and Her Missionaries of Charity

  • #11
    Scott Adams
    “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”
    Scott Adams

  • #12
    Fernando Pessoa
    “There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #13
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald

  • #14
    Napoleon Hill
    “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
    Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

  • #16
    Margaret Atwood
    “Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

  • #17
    Arundhati Roy
    “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
    Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

  • #18
    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • #19
    Bruce Lee
    “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
    Bruce Lee

  • #20
    Rita Mae Brown
    “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
    Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

  • #21
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #22
    George Saunders
    “Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
    George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

  • #23
    “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
    Douglas McGrath

  • #24
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #26
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

  • #27
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

  • #28
    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

  • #29
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #30
    Jack London
    “I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
    Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman



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