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“Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi: Official Edition

“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“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

“Like all other acts of creation, magic is
just a state of mind”
― Joanne Harris, Ten Things About Writing: Build Your Story, One Word at a Time

“What makes a good scientist is the speed at which preconceptions are abandoned in the face of new knowledge”
― Russell Foster, Life Time

“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again…”
― C.S. Lewis

“The future has an ancient heart.”
― Carlo Levi

“The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, but the Wise Person Carries Both”
― SFWA Musketeers

“Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
― Martha Graham

“What if you don’t so much have a passion or purpose as much as you pursue something, or a bunch of things, with passion and a sense of purpose?”
― Jonathan Fields, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

“Talent just defines what you do,” he said. “It doesn’t define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.”
― M.C. Richards

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”
― Martha Graham

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Life isn’t long enough to win folks over nor is it ever worth the effort to seek approval from the judgmental.”
― Humble Poet, UnLearn: 101 Simple Truths For A Better Life

“. . . science is a collaborative endeavour in time, with each generation building upon the efforts of those who came before.”
― Alexander Boxer, A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for Our Destiny in Data

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
― Barbara Tuchman

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You see, señorita, mystery is important. To know everything, to know the whole truth, is dull. There is no magic in that. Magic is not knowing, magic is wondering about the what and how and where.”
― Ragnar Tørnquist, The Longest Journey Script

“Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Rumpole, you must move with the times."

"If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.”
― John Mortimer, The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole

“The reader wants to be immersed in a story, not drowned in words”
― Joanne Harris, Ten Things About Writing: Build Your Story, One Word at a Time

“The books looked like they were in a deep sleep but the bookcase was slowly waking...”
― Christine Friel McGrory, Grace

“At this point, she probably thought of real life as some kind of virtual reality with good graphics but a horribly dreary plot.”
― Michael Atamanov, Video Game Plotline Tester