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  • #1
    Desmond Tutu
    “Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #3
    Wendell Berry
    “It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
    wendell berry

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #5
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

  • #6
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

  • #7
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

  • #8
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #10
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #11
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #12
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.”
    Borges, Jorge Luis

  • #13
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #14
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #16
    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #17
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #18
    “Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.”
    Ellen DeGeneres

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #21
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #22
    William Goldman
    “Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #23
    Malcolm X
    “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
    Malcolm X

  • #24
    Mother Teresa
    “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #25
    Jacob Bronowski
    “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
    Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

  • #26
    William Goldman
    “But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #27
    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #28
    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #29
    Henry Ford
    “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
    Henry Ford

  • #30
    David Foster Wallace
    “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    David Foster Wallace



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