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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
― Jean Shepherd

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pan, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Every moment in life is an act of faith”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Everything depends on which path you take.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Give time time.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“You are what you believe yourself to be”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham