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  • #1
    David Sedaris
    “It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.”
    David Sedaris

  • #2
    David Sedaris
    “The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.”
    David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

  • #3
    David Sedaris
    “This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”
    David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

  • #4
    David Sedaris
    “Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”
    David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

  • #5
    David Sedaris
    “I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.”
    David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

  • #6
    David Sedaris
    “What's the trick to remembering that a sandwich is masculine? What qualities does it share with anyone in possession of a penis? I'll tell myself that a sandwich is masculine because if left alone for a week or two, it will eventually grow a beard.”
    David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #9
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #10
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

  • #11
    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #12
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #13
    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #14
    Mother Teresa
    “Live simply so others may simply live.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #15
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #16
    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #17
    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #18
    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
    Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

  • #19
    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.”
    Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

  • #20
    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.”
    Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

  • #21
    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.”
    Hubert Selby Jr.

  • #22
    “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
    W.T. Purkiser

  • #23
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #24
    Neal A. Maxwell
    “We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
    Neal A. Maxwell

  • #25
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #26
    Albert Schweitzer
    “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #27
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #28
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. ”
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  • #29
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
    Deitrich Bonhoeffer

  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ”
    Friedrich Nietzsche



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