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  • #1
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #2
    Jonathan Swift
    “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #3
    George Eliot
    “No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it
    are no longer the same interpreters.”
    George Eliot

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #5
    “Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.”
    Nido Qubein

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #7
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
    Viktor E. Frankl

  • #8
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #10
    Mother Teresa
    “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #11
    Mother Teresa
    “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #12
    Mother Teresa
    “At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
    We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #13
    Mother Teresa
    “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #14
    Nelson Mandela
    “A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”
    Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

  • #17
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.”
    Ghandi

  • #20
    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #21
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #22
    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #23
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #24
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
    Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

  • #25
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
    Victor Frankl

  • #26
    Edmund Wilson
    “No two persons ever read the same book.”
    Edmund Wilson

  • #27
    Edmund Wilson
    “I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.”
    Edmund Wilson

  • #28
    Edmund Wilson
    “In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real.”
    Edmund Wilson

  • #29
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #30
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #31
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #32
    Emilie Buchwald
    “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
    Emilie Buchwald

  • #33
    “An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”
    Walter Winchell

  • #34
    “A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.”
    Walter Winchell



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