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“There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
― Booker T. Washington, and many others Frederick Douglass

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
― Confucius

“A story untold could be the one that kills you.”
― Pat Conroy

“Stories do not end.”
― anais nin

“Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times: Memoirs

“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“The childhood years are the best years of your life… Whoever coined that was an unmitigated fuckwit, a bullshit artist supreme. Life gets better the older you grow, until you grow too old of course.”
― Keri Hulme

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?”
― Abraham Verghese

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“People do not really change; we are only undefeated because we have gone on trying.”
― Kim Echlin, The Disappeared

“A soul protects itself from what it cannot bear.”
― Kim Echlin, The Disappeared

“... 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

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.”
― Jack Layton

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

“Did she always have something to read in front of her so she wouldn't have to look at anything else?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.”
― Robert Holden

“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns