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  • #1
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #2
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #3
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #4
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #5
    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    Anais Nin

  • #6
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    W.C. Fields

  • #7
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    C.E.M. Joad

  • #8
    Graham Greene
    “You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
    Graham Greene, The Third Man

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #10
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “A novel requires a hero, and here there's a deliberate collection of all the traits for an anti-hero”
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  • #11
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #12
    Mary Wortley Montagu
    “Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

  • #13
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #14
    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    Anthony G. Oettinger

  • #15
    John Updike
    “Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
    John Updike, A Month of Sundays

  • #16
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald

  • #17
    Victor Hugo
    “Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #18
    Victor Hugo
    “Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #19
    Victor Hugo
    “Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
    Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Ray Bradbury
    “Suddenly the day was gone,
    night came out from under each tree and spread.”
    Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

  • #23
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #24
    “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
    David Mamet, Boston Marriage

  • #25
    Adrian C. Louis
    “I'm at that place I grew up to leave.”
    Adrian C. Louis, Fire Water World: Poems

  • #27
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    “Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.”
    Gerard Manley Hopkins

  • #28
    Anna Akhmatova
    “As the future ripens in the past,
    so the past rots in the future --
    a terrible festival of dead leaves.”
    Anna Akhmatova, Poems of Akhmatova

  • #29
    Anna Akhmatova
    “That was when the ones who smiled
    Were the dead, glad to be at rest.”
    Anna Akhmatova

  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #31
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
    Leo Tolstoy



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