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  • #1
    Mary Oliver
    “And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful-

    how the mind clings to the road it knows,
    rushing through crossroads, sticking

    like lint to the familiar.”
    Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures

  • #2
    Anya Wylde
    “This was it, a crossroad where a happy home was within her grasp, and on the other side lay years of loneliness and misery.”
    Anya Wylde, Penelope

  • #3
    Stephen Fry
    “And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again.

    The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing I could feel and touch.”
    Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

  • #4
    Cecelia Ahern
    “Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts”
    Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

  • #5
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #6
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #7
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #8
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #9
    Paulo Coelho
    “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #10
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #13
    Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    “The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
    Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #15
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #16
    Bob Marley
    “Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
    Bob Marley

  • #17
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #18
    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    Truman Capote

  • #19
    Sharon Salzberg
    “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
    Sharon Salzberg

  • #20
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    Albert Camus

  • #24
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #25
    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #26
    Haruki Murakami
    “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #27
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    Henry James

  • #28
    William Shakespeare
    “All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #29
    Marie Lu
    “Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.”
    Marie Lu, Legend

  • #30
    Marie Lu
    “I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
    I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.”
    Marie Lu, Champion



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