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  • #1
    Carrie Fisher
    “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
    Carrie Fisher

  • #2
    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Antony John
    “Don’t worry about wanting to change; start worrying when you don’t feel like changing anymore. And in the meantime, enjoy every version of yourself you ever meet, because not everybody who discovers their true identity likes what they find.”
    Antony John, Five Flavors of Dumb

  • #5
    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
    "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
    Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #8
    Antony John
    “I felt every part of that animal music, felt it eat me up and spit me out, and what emerged was a me a thousand times more powerful than Piper Vaughan. I was Piper Vaughan, guitar hero - spiritual descendant of Jimi Hendrix and proponent of pure anarchy. And I ROCKED.”
    Antony John
    tags: music

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #10
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #11
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #12
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #13
    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    Alice Walker

  • #14
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “Play is the highest form of research.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    Raymond Chandler
    “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
    Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #18
    C.J. Cherryh
    “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
    C. J. Cherryh

  • #19
    Alice Dalgliesh
    “What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
    Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

  • #20
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #21
    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
    Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

  • #22
    Friedrich Schiller
    “O friends, no more these sounds!
    Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!”
    Friedrich Schiller
    tags: joy, music

  • #23
    Dan Gutman
    “Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”
    Dan Gutman, From Texas with Love

  • #24
    Alphonse de Lamartine
    “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
    Alphonse de Lamartine

  • #25
    Alan Paton
    “I have always found that actively loving
    saves one from a morbid preoccupation
    with the shortcomings of society.”
    Alan Paton



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