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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.”
― Jill Paton Walsh

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
― Stephen Colbert

“You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, The Funny Thing Is...

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.”
― Nancy Mitford

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.”
― Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and I'm sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it; and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost