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  • #1
    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

  • #2
    Deb Caletti
    “That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”
    Deb Caletti

  • #3
    Yoko Ono
    “Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
    Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
    Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
    Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
    Yoko Ono

  • #4
    Stephanie Klein
    “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
    Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

  • #5
    Diamanda Galás
    “I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"

    And he says,
    How much time do you want?”
    Diamanda Galas, The Shit of God

  • #6
    Warsan Shire
    “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #7
    Emily Wing Smith
    “Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.”
    Emily Wing Smith, Back When You Were Easier to Love

  • #8
    Herman Melville
    “I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #9
    Nikita Gill
    “Fall in love with someone
    who tastes like adventure
    but looks like
    the calm, beautiful morning
    after a terrible storm”
    Nikita Gill

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

  • #11
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
    Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #12
    Tove Jansson
    “It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.”
    Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland

  • #13
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #14
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #15
    Rupi Kaur
    “how is it so easy for you to be kind to people he asked milk and honey dripped from my lips as i answered cause people have not been kind to me”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “The blood jet is poetry,
    There is no stopping it.

    --from "Kindness", written 1 February 1963”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel

  • #17
    “Celebrate your birthday with the greatest joy for the priceless gift of life, be filled with joy that brings renewed strength.”
    Wayne Chirisa

  • #18
    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    Dave Eggers

  • #19
    “TO MY DAD

    That man was a good man!”
    Charmaine J Forde

  • #20
    Rudyard Kipling
    “We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
    Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

  • #21
    John Lennon
    “There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
    John Lennon

  • #22
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson

  • #23
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #25
    Robert Greene
    “Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.”
    Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #27
    Anchee Min
    “If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
    Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • #28
    Mitch Albom
    “Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
    Mitch Albom, For One More Day



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