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“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

“It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be.”
― Avery Sawyer, Notes to Self

“The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“You will never change what you tolerate.”
― Joel Osteen

“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”
― Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho

“There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse”
― Colin Dexter, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

“Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body.”
― Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“Love only the people who deserve you.”
― Christian Mørk, Darling Jim

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone”
― Richard Puz, The Carolinian

“Life sometimes throws you a bomb when all you want is a hug.”
― J.D. Wylde, Karma in Camo

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers