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  • #1
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    Michel de Montaigne

  • #2
    Steve Wozniak
    “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
    Steve Wozniak

  • #3
    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    Anna Quindlen

  • #4
    John  Green
    “You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #5
    John  Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #6
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #7
    John  Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #8
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #10
    Sarah Vowell
    “Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
    Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

  • #11
    Stephen W. Hawking
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #12
    H.G. Wells
    “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #13
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #14
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #18
    Eric Roth
    “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
    Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

  • #19
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
    Cicero

  • #20
    Deb Caletti
    “And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.”
    Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

  • #21
    Criss Jami
    “Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
    Criss Jami

  • #22
    Elie Wiesel
    “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #23
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #24
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    Bob Marley

  • #25
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #26
    Mia Couto
    “A vida é demasiado preciosa para ser esbanjada num mundo desencantado.”
    Mia Couto, Jesusalém

  • #27
    Manuel Puig
    “The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.


    Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

  • #28
    Robert   Harris
    “To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.”
    Robert Harris, Pompeii

  • #29
    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    Stendhal, The Red and the Black

  • #30
    Haruki Murakami
    “If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart



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