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  • #1
    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days

  • #4
    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
    Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #6
    Nina LaCour
    “The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.”
    Nina LaCour, Hold Still

  • #7
    John Grogan
    “A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.”
    John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

  • #8
    Cornelia Funke
    “Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? Someone else who loved books.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #9
    Brené Brown
    “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”
    Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

  • #10
    Max Ehrmann
    “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
    Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

  • #11
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #12
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

  • #13
    Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where
    “Shine your soul with the same
    egoless humility as the rainbow
    and no matter where you go
    in this world or the next,
    love will find you, attend you, and bless you.”
    Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

  • #14
    Cormac McCarthy
    “All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #15
    Marlene Dietrich
    “Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.”
    Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's ABC

  • #16
    Robert Goolrick
    “It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.”
    Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

  • #17
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Looking for Your Face

    From the beginning of my life
    I have been looking for your face
    but today I have seen it

    Today I have seen
    the charm, the beauty,
    the unfathomable grace
    of the face
    that I was looking for

    Today I have found you
    and those who laughed
    and scorned me yesterday
    are sorry that they were not looking
    as I did

    I am bewildered by the magnificence
    of your beauty
    and wish to see you
    with a hundred eyes

    My heart has burned with passion
    and has searched forever
    for this wondrous beauty
    that I now behold

    I am ashamed
    to call this love human
    and afraid of God
    to call it divine

    Your fragrant breath
    like the morning breeze
    has come to the stillness of the garden
    You have breathed new life into me
    I have become your sunshine
    and also your shadow

    My soul is screaming in ecstasy
    Every fiber of my being
    is in love with you

    Your effulgence
    has lit a fire in my heart
    and you have made radiant
    for me
    the earth and sky

    My arrow of love
    has arrived at the target
    I am in the house of mercy
    and my heart
    is a place of prayer”
    Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi

  • #18
    Mandy Hale
    “Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.”
    Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

  • #19
    Bethany Hamilton
    “Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”
    Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

  • #20
    “The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
    Juliette Lewis

  • #21
    Amelia Earhart
    “Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”
    Amelia Earhart

  • #22
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #23
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #24
    Steve Goodier
    “I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.”
    Steve Goodier

  • #25
    Shannon L. Alder
    “You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow, but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.”
    Shannon Alder

  • #26
    Joseph Chilton Pearce
    “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
    Joseph Chilton Pearce

  • #27
    Alex Rogers
    “Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.”
    Alex Rogers, I'm Only Human After All

  • #28
    Brené Brown
    “Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.”
    Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

  • #29
    Ian McEwan
    “There's pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in the little sigh she makes when she turns or slightly bends our unwieldy form. It's already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence. When she's no longer twenty-eight and pregnant and beautiful, or even free, she won't remember the way she set down the spoon and the sound it made on slate, the frock she wore today, the touch of her sandal's thong between her toes, the summer's warmth, the white noise of the city beyond the house walls, a short burst of birdsong by a closed window. All gone, already.”
    Ian McEwan, Nutshell

  • #30
    Roger Angell
    “What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”
    Roger Angell



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