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  • #1
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #2
    Richard P. Feynman
    “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #3
    Richard P. Feynman
    “All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.”
    Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

  • #4
    Frank Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #5
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

  • #6
    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    Seneca

  • #7
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #8
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #9
    J.D. Salinger
    “And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #10
    J.D. Salinger
    “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #11
    J.D. Salinger
    “She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
    J.D. Salinger

  • #12
    J.D. Salinger
    “People never notice anything.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #13
    Sylvia Plath
    “We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #14
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #15
    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #16
    بهاء طاهر
    “ما جدوى كل الشعر الذي قرأته وكل الأدب الذي أدمنته إن كانت لاتستطيع أن تنقل له بالكلمات كيف تحبه ؟”
    بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

  • #17
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “Sometimes words are not enough.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #19
    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #20
    John Lubbock
    “What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.”
    John Lubbock, The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live in



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