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  • #1
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #2
    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #4
    “I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
    In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #5
    John Updike
    “Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
    John Updike, Self-Consciousness

  • #6
    Lawrence Durrell
    “Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
    Lawrence Durrell, Justine

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

  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #10
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    “The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.”
    Ellen DeGeneres

  • #13
    Jandy Nelson
    “According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #14
    Jandy Nelson
    “I want to thank him for not making me say a word, and getting it all the same, but I just remain silent as the sun pours heat and light, as if from a pitcher, all over our bewildered heads.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #15
    Jandy Nelson
    “Before he finally hops on his borad, he hugs me good-bye and we hold on to each other so tightly under the sad, starless sky that for a moment I feel as if our heartbreak were one instead of two.”
    Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

  • #16
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #17
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.”
    Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

  • #18
    Kay Ryan
    “It isn't ever delicate to live.”
    Kay Ryan

  • #19
    Veronica Roth
    “I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.”
    Veronica Roth, Insurgent

  • #20
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #21
    Malala Yousafzai
    “Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.”
    Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

  • #22
    Malala Yousafzai
    “Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.”
    Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

  • #23
    Sylvia Plath
    “I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #24
    Truddi Chase
    “I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.”
    Truddi Chase, When Rabbit Howls

  • #25
    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #26
    “Amazingly, even in midst of trauma, people continue to smile, to love, to celebrate, to create, and to renew.”
    David B. Feldman, Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success

  • #27
    E. Lockhart
    “Do not accept an evil you can change.”
    E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

  • #28
    E. Lockhart
    “Be a little kinder than you have to.”
    E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

  • #29
    E. Lockhart
    “He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”
    E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

  • #30
    Mary Jennifer Payne
    “My life is never stable. It’ as if I balance on a series of tectonic plates like the ones under the Pacific Ring of Fire.”
    Mary Jennifer Payne, Since You've Been Gone



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