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  • #1
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #2
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #3
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #4
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.

    [Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
    Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

  • #5
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #6
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #7
    A.A. Milne
    “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #8
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #9
    Walt Disney Company
    “Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
    Walt Disney Company

  • #11
    “We're all mad here.”
    Cheshire Cat

  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #14
    James Joyce
    “If Socrates leaves his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend.’ Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #16
    Lewis Carroll
    “Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

    Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: and Through The Looking Glass

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
    Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?”
    Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #19
    Charles Bukowski
    “and when love came to us twice
    and lied to us twice
    we decided to never love again
    that was fair
    fair to us
    and fair to love itself.

    we ask for no mercy or no
    miracles;
    we are strong enough to live
    and to die and to
    kill flies,

    attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack,
    live on luck and skill,
    get alone, get alone often,
    and if you can't sleep alone
    be careful of the words you speak in your sleep;
    and
    ask for no mercy
    no miracles;

    and don't forget:
    time is meant to be wasted,
    love fails
    and death is useless.”
    Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
    tags: love

  • #20
    Charles Bukowski
    “Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their
    lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”
    Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”
    Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

  • #22
    Charles Bukowski
    “I will remember the kisses
    our lips raw with love
    and how you gave me
    everything you had
    and how I
    offered you what was left of
    me,
    and I will remember your small room
    the feel of you
    the light in the window
    your records
    your books
    our morning coffee
    our noons our nights
    our bodies spilled together
    sleeping
    the tiny flowing currents
    immediate and forever
    your leg my leg
    your arm my arm
    your smile and the warmth
    of you
    who made me laugh
    again.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #23
    Michel Houellebecq
    “The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
    Michel Houellebecq

  • #24
    Michel Houellebecq
    “Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.”
    Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

  • #25
    Benjamin Hoff
    “Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.”
    Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

  • #26
    Alain de Botton
    “One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #27
    John  Williams
    “Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
    John Williams, Stoner

  • #28
    Ian McEwan
    “Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.”
    Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth

  • #29
    Leticia Wierzchowski
    “O que eu sei é que somos trágicos. Os deuses escolheram assim. Somos todos uma brincadeira deles, marionetes que envelhecem rápido demais, uma experienciazinha carnal - de modo que não lhes interessa a parcimônia: criam uns num caldo de fúria e outros na doçura total.”
    Leticia Wierzchowski, Sal

  • #30
    Charles Bukowski
    “I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
    Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

  • #31
    Charles Bukowski
    “Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”
    Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire



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