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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

“She was not a poet. She was a poem.”
― Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

“Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.”
― Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

“Life ia only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll al get home safely.”
― Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

“... to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile...”
― Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

“Presence’ is actually very important in international sport. It is one thing just being there in the middle, but it is another making people aware of your ‘presence’. It is about body language and radiating confidence, something that the West Indian batting legend Viv Richards would personify.”
― Sachin Tendulkar, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography

“Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“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

“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
― Molière

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“if you have secrets, you must have a friend to share them with,”
― Ruskin Bond, The Angry River

“Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.”
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

“Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. When once gone, no gold can buy them back.”
― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, My Life: An Illustrated Biography: An Illustrated Autobiography

“the person who is rich in spirit can never be poor.”
― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, My Life: An Illustrated Biography: An Illustrated Autobiography

“small aim is a crime.”
― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, My Life: An Illustrated Biography: An Illustrated Autobiography

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“the seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else. Now,”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“In every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“Einstein attributed many of his physics breakthroughs to his violin breaks, which he believed helped him connect ideas in very different ways.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“Our choices in life aren’t always easy, but if they come from the heart they’re usually the right ones”
― Emma Davies, Merry Mistletoe

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!