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  • #1
    Astrid Lindgren
    “Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
    Astrid Lindgren

  • #2
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #3
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #4
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #5
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #6
    Rebecca  Walker
    “. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
    Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

  • #7
    Mother Teresa
    “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #9
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #11
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #14
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #15
    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #16
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

  • #17
    Mitch Albom
    “There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.”
    Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

  • #18
    C.S. Lewis
    “I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”
    C.S. Lewis



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