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  • #1
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer

  • #2
    Anya Seton
    “A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.”
    Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Anya Seton
    “Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”
    Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman

  • #5
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #6
    Anya Seton
    “Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.”
    Anya Seton, Green Darkness
    tags: truth

  • #7
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

  • #8
    Sherman Alexie
    “Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”
    Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  • #9
    Joe Navarro
    “the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.”
    Joe Navarro, What Every Body is Saying: An FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

  • #10
    André Maurois
    “In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
    André Maurois

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #13
    Susan Wittig Albert
    “One person's weed is another person's wildflower.”
    Susan Wittig Albert, An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries

  • #14
    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    William Faulkner

  • #15
    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    Voltaire

  • #16
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
    Stephen King

  • #18
    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

  • #19
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #20
    Norman Maclean
    “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
    I am haunted by waters.”
    Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

  • #21
    Norman Maclean
    “Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”
    Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

  • #22
    Ernest Hemingway
    “As you get older, it’s more difficult to have heroes, but it’s just as necessary.”
    Ernest Hemmingway

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing.

    All you do is sit down a a typewriter and bleed.
    E. Hemmingway


    We don't write to be understood, we write to understand.........

    Love yourself. Dare to dream. Live on purpose!”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #24
    “Write hard and clear about what hurts”
    Earnest Hemmingway

  • #25
    Charles Dickens
    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #26
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #27
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #28
    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #29
    Lao Tzu
    “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #30
    Lao Tzu
    “Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”
    Lao Tzu



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