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  • #1
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #2
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #3
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #4
    Carol Shields
    “Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
    Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

  • #5
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

  • #6
    Louise Penny
    “Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.”
    Louise Penny

  • #7
    Louise Penny
    “When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
    Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

  • #8
    Louise Penny
    “Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.”
    Louise Penny , Still Life

  • #9
    Anchee Min
    “If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
    Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • #10
    Jennifer Egan
    “I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
    Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

  • #11
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #14
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    “It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
    Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

  • #17
    Michael Palin
    “You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
    Michael Palin

  • #18
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #19
    Peter Hobbs
    “Love must be shared, or else it is just madness.”
    Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows

  • #20
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #21
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #22
    Paulo Coelho
    “You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
    Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

  • #23
    Paulo Coelho
    “The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”
    Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

  • #24
    Paulo Coelho
    “Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.”
    Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

  • #25
    Paulo Coelho
    “Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”
    Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

  • #26
    Helen Simonson
    “Life does often get in the way of one's reading.”
    Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

  • #27
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    Haruki Marukami

  • #28
    Dr. Seuss
    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
    Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #30
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    Bill Watterson



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