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  • #1
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #2
    Chelsea Handler
    “There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.”
    Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

  • #3
    Audrey Hepburn
    “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #4
    Audrey Hepburn
    “I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #5
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #6
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #7
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #8
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  • #9
    Richard Llewellyn
    “O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
    Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

  • #10
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
    Mary Anne Radmacher

  • #11
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Live with intention.
    Walk to the edge.
    Listen Hard.
    Practice wellness.
    Play with abandon.
    Laugh.
    Choose with no regret.
    Appreciate your friends.
    Continue to learn.
    Do what you love.
    Live as if this is all there is.”
    Mary Anne Radmacher

  • #12
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. tomorrow comes more brightly...”
    mary anne radmacher

  • #13
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
    mary anne radmacher

  • #14
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “living eulogy.
    she danced.
    she sang. she took.
    she gave.
    she loved.
    she created.
    she dissented. she enlivened.
    she saw. she grew. she sweated.
    she changed.
    she learned. she laughed.
    she shed her skin.
    she bled on the pages of her days,
    she walked through walls,
    she lived with intention.”
    Mary Anne Radmacher

  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #16
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #17
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #18
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #19
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #20
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris



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