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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #3
    James Clavell
    “Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.

    Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.”
    James Clavell, Shōgun

  • #4
    James Clavell
    “Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.”
    James Clavell, Shōgun

  • #5
    James Clavell
    “Always remember, child" her first teacher had impressed on her, "that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that need disipline –training- is about. So train your mind to dwell on sweet perfumes, the touch of this silk, tender raindrops against the shoji, the curve of the flower arrangement, the tranquillity of dawn. Then, at length, you won't have to make such a great effort and you will be of value to yourself,…”
    james clavell, Shōgun

  • #6
    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #7
    “Regardless of the situation, don’t let the bastards win … and have no regrets … for it will be a good day!

    -Richard Wakinyan (Martian Fleet Commander)”
    R.G. Risch, Beyond Mars: Crimson Fleet

  • #8
    “There is beauty in what is broken.”
    K.K. Hendin, Only The Good Die Young

  • #9
    Tommy Wallach
    “The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world. You're part of this cosmic community of people who've thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
    Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

  • #10
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #13
    Santino Hassell
    “I wish I didn’t love your stupid ass so much.”
    Santino Hassell, Sutphin Boulevard

  • #14
    Dang Thuy Tram
    “Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
    Dang Thuy Tram

  • #15
    Robin  Williams
    “We get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds.”
    Robin Williams

  • #16
    Maryab
    “I knew I was a little different from most demons but nothing says freak of nature like a one-eyed gypsy saying I had a rainbow glow. It just didn't sound complimentary.”
    Mary Abshire, Claiming the Evil Dead

  • #17
    Abigail Gibbs
    “One day you might just find something worth living an eternity for”
    Abigail Gibbs, Dinner with a Vampire

  • #18
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #19
    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

  • #20
    Cormac McCarthy
    “It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #21
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson

  • #22
    Christina Engela
    “Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.”
    Christina Engela, Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror

  • #23
    “هیچ کس منو نمی خواد، حتی خودمم خودمو می خواد،ک..رم تو من!”
    سجاد زارعیان

  • #24
    Sela Carsen
    “He’s dead, she reminded herself. He’s hunting a vampire. This is not the stable, normal, ordinary guy you’re looking for.”
    Sela Carsen, Not Quite Dead

  • #25
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler



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