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“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
― William Cullen Bryant

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre