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  • #1
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #2
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

  • #3
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I think I deserve something beautiful.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #4
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #5
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #6
    Cory Basil
    “Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.”
    Cory Basil, Skinny Dipping in Daylight

  • #7
    Cory Basil
    “who you are is who you are when you are alone.”
    Cory Basil, Skinny Dipping in Daylight

  • #8
    Veronica Roth
    “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #9
    Veronica Roth
    “I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #10
    Conan O'Brien
    “All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
    Conan O'Brien

  • #11
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #12
    Lauren Oliver
    “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
    Lauren Oliver, Delirium

  • #13
    J.D. Salinger
    “I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #14
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #15
    Jack Kerouac
    “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

  • #16
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #17
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #18
    Jack Kerouac
    “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #19
    Jack Kerouac
    “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #20
    Jack Kerouac
    “Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #21
    Jack Kerouac
    “It all ends in tears anyway.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #22
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
    Allen Ginsberg

  • #23
    Allen Ginsberg
    “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
    Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

  • #24
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
    Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
    The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
    The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
    and asshole holy!
    Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is
    holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an
    angel!
    The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is
    holy as you my soul are holy!
    The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is
    holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy!
    Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy
    Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cas-
    sady holy the unknown buggered and suffering
    beggars holy the hideous human angels!
    Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks
    of the grandfathers of Kansas!
    Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop
    apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana
    hipsters peace & junk & drums!
    Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy
    the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the
    mysterious rivers of tears under the streets!
    Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the
    middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebell-
    ion! Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles!
    Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria &
    Seattle Holy Paris Holy Tangiers Holy Moscow
    Holy Istanbul!
    Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the
    clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy
    the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch!
    Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the
    locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucina-
    tions holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the
    abyss!
    Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours!
    bodies! suffering! magnanimity!
    Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent
    kindness of the soul!”
    Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

  • #25
    John Muir
    “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
    John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

  • #26
    John Muir
    “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
    John Muir

  • #27
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #28
    John Muir
    “The mountains are calling and I must go.”
    John Muir

  • #29
    John Muir
    “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
    John Muir, The Mountains of California

  • #30
    John Muir
    “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
    John Muir, Our National Parks



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