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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.”
― Allan Watts

“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consist in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive - Allan Watts”
― Jack Kornfield, Beginner's Mind: 3 Classic Meditation Practices Especially for Beginners

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
― Rumi

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass