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  • #1
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #2
    T.H. White
    “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #3
    Marilynne Robinson
    “This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
    Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

  • #4
    Bertrand Russell
    “Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #5
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #6
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    Plato

  • #7
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “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

  • #8
    Mona van Duyn
    “The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
    Mona Van Duyn

  • #9
    Francis of Assisi
    “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

  • #10
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    Eleanor Hodgman Porter

  • #11
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #12
    Isak Dinesen
    “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
    Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

  • #13
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #14
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom

  • #15
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #16
    William Shakespeare
    “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

  • #17
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #18
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
    Lorraine Hansberry

  • #19
    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #20
    Betty  Smith
    “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

  • #21
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #22
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #23
    “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

  • #24
    Jack Kornfield
    “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

  • #25
    Maxine Kumin
    “Cherish your wilderness.”
    Maxine Kumin

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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

  • #27
    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    Bill Nye

  • #28
    Edward Gibbon
    “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
    Edward Gibbon

  • #29
    Charles M. Schulz
    “What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #30
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass



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