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“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“The core of beauty is simplicity.”
― Paulo Coehlo

“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.

Paulo Coehlo”
― paulo coehlo

“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
― André Maurois

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Today I choose to step outside of my comfort zone into my miracle.”
― Suzette Webb, Blues to Blessings: from Fearful to Faithful

“If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire. But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon. This is the nearest you ever get to it on the mainland, just one heavenly moment; if there could be two moments you might see the surf and hear the mermaids singing.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy

“We are each the love of someone's life.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

“It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.”
― Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time

“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”
― Mark Twain

“some stories don't need telling”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
― Sylvia Plath

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. The word ‘lost’ comes from the old Norse ‘los’ meaning the disbanding of an army…I worry now that people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know.

Advertising, alarmist news, technology, incessant busyness, and the design of public and private life conspire to make it so. A recent article about the return of wildlife to suburbia described snow-covered yards in which the footprints of animals are abundant and those of children are entirely absent. Children seldom roam, even in the safest places… I wonder what will come of placing this generation under house arrest.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“सुर और संगीत दोनों ही विचित्र होते हैं, जितनी कठनाई से सधते हैं, उतनी ही सरलता से फिसल जाते हैं.”
― Sandeep Nayyar, Samarsiddha

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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

“I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.”
― Franz Kafka