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  • #1
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #9
    Gustave Flaubert
    “The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #10
    Thomas Merton
    “If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
    Thomas Merton

  • #11
    Keith Ablow
    “Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.”
    Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide

  • #12
    Mother Teresa
    “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #13
    Horace Mann
    “Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
    Horace Mann

  • #14
    Jack London
    “A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
    Jack London

  • #15
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #16
    Herman Melville
    “Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
    Herman Melville

  • #17
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  • #18
    John Lennon
    “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
    John Lennon

  • #19
    Anne Lamott
    “You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #20
    Anne Lamott
    “If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.”
    Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

  • #21
    Anne Lamott
    “Certainty is missing the point entirely.”
    Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

  • #22
    Anne Lamott
    “Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #23
    Anne Lamott
    “You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are feeding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
    Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

  • #26
    Eckhart Tolle
    “A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #27
    Eckhart Tolle
    “Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
    Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

  • #28
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    Mark Twain



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