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  • #1
    Abraham Lincoln
    “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #2
    Brandon Sanderson
    “...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

  • #3
    Robert Jordan
    “Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
    Robert Jordan

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Pierre Boulle
    “There's always some further action to take.”
    Pierre Boulle

  • #6
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #7
    Henry Miller
    “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
    Henry Miller

  • #8
    Henry Adams
    “Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
    Henry Adams

  • #9
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    Michel de Montaigne

  • #10
    “We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
    Ira Glass

  • #11
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    Clare Boothe Luce

  • #12
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #13
    Jordan Belfort
    “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
    Jordan Belfort

  • #14
    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    August Wilson

  • #15
    Carolyn Forché
    “The heart is the toughest part of the body.
    Tenderness is in the hands.”
    Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

  • #16
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #17
    Ian Fleming
    “Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
    Ian Fleming

  • #18
    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    John Cheever

  • #19
    Dorothea Lange
    “Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
    Dorothea Lange

  • #20
    Joseph Brodsky
    “The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #21
    Nellie Bly
    “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
    Nellie Bly

  • #22
    Countee Cullen
    “There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
    Countee Cullen

  • #23
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity

  • #24
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “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

  • #25
    Norton Juster
    “So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

  • #26
    Colleen McCullough
    “Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
    Colleen McCullough, Caesar

  • #27
    Louise Erdrich
    “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
    Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

  • #28
    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #29
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #30
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings



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