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  • #1
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
    John Greenleaf Whittier

  • #2
    The constant happiness is curiosity.
    “The constant happiness is curiosity.”
    Alice Munro

  • #3
    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #4
    Rosamunde Pilcher
    “She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
    Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

  • #5
    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #6
    Elie Wiesel
    “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
    Elie Wiesel, Night

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #8
    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  • #9
    Anne Enright
    “I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
    Anne Enright, The Gathering

  • #10
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  • #11
    “Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

  • #12
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Andrew Solomon
    “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
    Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

  • #15
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #16
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  • #17
    Masashi Kishimoto
    “If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
    Masashi Kishimoto

  • #18
    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

  • #19
    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    Zig Ziglar

  • #20
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  • #21
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #22
    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #23
    Astrid Lindgren
    “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
    Astrid Lindgren

  • #24
    Augustine of Hippo
    “I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
    Augustine of Hippo

  • #25
    Charles Bukowski
    “there are worse things
    than being alone
    but it often takes
    decades to realize this
    and most often when you do
    it's too late
    and there's nothing worse
    than too late”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #26
    Shmuley Boteach
    “There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
    Shmuley Boteach

  • #27
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #28
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein



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