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  • #1
    John Muir
    “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
    John Muir

  • #2
    Philip K. Dick
    “It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.”
    Philip K. Dick, VALIS

  • #3
    Cheryl Strayed
    “He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.”
    Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

  • #4
    David Levithan
    “I should have felt proud, but instead I felt awful. That I had let him down so many times, that I had been a horrible brother. That he loved me anyway. That maybe he knew more about life than I did, even if I’d had more experience. Because knowing about life is really about knowing how it should be, not just how it is.”
    David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories

  • #5
    Phyllis Diller
    “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
    Phyllis Diller

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #7
    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #8
    C. JoyBell C.
    “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #9
    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    Lev Grossman, The Magicians

  • #10
    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    Chico Xavier

  • #11
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    Plato

  • #12
    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

  • #13
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #14
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #15
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #16
    Brian Rathbone
    “Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
    Brian Rathbone, Regent

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
    Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

  • #18
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

  • #19
    Alice Bag
    “What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.”
    Alice Bag, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

  • #20
    Santosh Kalwar
    “I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow.”
    Santosh Kalwar

  • #21
    Jillian Michaels
    “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!”
    Jillian Michaels

  • #22
    Zig Ziglar
    “You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
    Zig Ziglar

  • #23
    Vincent van Gogh
    “To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

  • #24
    Michel Foucault
    “People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
    Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

  • #25
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #26
    Stieg Larsson
    “There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire



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