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  • #1
    Frederick Douglass
    “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #2
    Arnold Bennett
    “The chief beauty about time
    is that you cannot waste it in advance.
    The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
    as perfect, as unspoiled,
    as if you had never wasted or misapplied
    a single moment in all your life.
    You can turn over a new leaf every hour
    if you choose.”
    Arnold Bennett

  • #3
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. "Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • #4
    Edna O'Brien
    “When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
    Edna O'Brien

  • #5
    Edna O'Brien
    “Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.”
    Edna O'Brien, Country Girl

  • #6
    Edna O'Brien
    “The words ran away with me.”
    Edna O'Brien, Country Girl

  • #7
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #8
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • #9
    J.M. Barrie
    “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
    J.M. Barrie

  • #10
    Caitlín R. Kiernan
    “[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience. (Ancillary Justice)”
    Anne Leckie

  • #11
    E.M. Forster
    “Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking.”
    E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

  • #12
    Beverly Cleary
    “She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
    Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest

  • #13
    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

  • #14
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • #15
    Thomas Hardy
    “To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...”
    Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies

  • #16
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #17
    Thomas Hardy
    “it is difficult to adjust our outer and inner life with perfect honesty to all!”
    Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies

  • #18
    Thomas Hardy
    “I am now about to enter on my normal condition. For people are almost always in their graves. When we survey the long race of men, it is strange and still more strange to find that they are mainly dead men, who have scarcely ever been otherwise.”
    Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies

  • #19
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
    Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

  • #20
    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
    Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

  • #21
    Bee Ridgway
    “Human emotion. Millions of souls, together they make the mood of a certain time. It doesn’t matter that they disagree, that they hate, that they fight. All together they create it, this thing. This epoch. Times of war. Times of famine. Times of wealth and happiness. The mood of an era. What is stronger than that?”
    Bee Ridgway, The River of No Return

  • #22
    Suzan-Lori Parks
    “And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
    Suzan-Lori Parks

  • #23
    J.M. Barrie
    “Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”
    J M Barrie

  • #24
    Art Spiegelman
    “To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
    Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

  • #25
    Art Spiegelman
    “Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
    ...On the other hand, he SAID it.”
    Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

  • #26
    Mary Doria Russell
    “The mission, he thought, probably failed because of a series of logical, reasonable, carefully considered decisions, each of which seemed like a good idea at the time. Like most colossal disasters.”
    Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

  • #27
    “In portaging from one river to another, Wabanakis had to carry their canoes and all other possessions. Everyone knew the value of traveling light and understood that it required leaving some things behind. Nothing encumbered movement more than fear, which was often the most difficult burden to surrender.”
    Bunny McBride, Women of the Dawn

  • #28
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #29
    Harper Lee
    “Atticus, he was real nice."

    "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #30
    Countee Cullen
    “There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
    Countee Cullen



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