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“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

“We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.”
― Joan Bauer

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.”
― Joan Bauer, Stand Tall

“You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.”
― Joan Bauer, Peeled

“There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.”
― Joan Bauer, Best Foot Forward

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.”
― Joan Bauer

“If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.”
― Joan Bauer, Backwater

“I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“These religious types were the fans that Jesus seems to have the most trouble with. Fans who will walk into a restaurant and bow their heads to pray before a meal just in case someone is watching. Fans who won’t go to R-rated movies at the theater, but have a number of them saved on their DVR at home. Fans who may feed the hungry and help the needy, and then they make sure they work it into every conversation for the next two weeks. Fans who make sure people see them put in their offering at church, but they haven’t considered reaching out to their neighbor who lost a job and can’t pay the bills. Fans who like seeing other people fail because in their minds it makes them look better. Fans whose primary concern in raising their children is what other people think. Fans who are reading this and assuming I’m describing someone else. Fans who have worn the mask for so long they have fooled even themselves.”
― Kyle Idleman

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
― John Steinbeck

“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“What we can't speak, we say in silence.”
― Hillary Jordan, Mudbound

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

“A finished person is a boring person. ”
― Anna Quindlen

“The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.”
― Anna Quindlen

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope