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  • #1
    Frank McCourt
    “He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

  • #2
    Henry David Thoreau
    “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

  • #3
    “Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #5
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
    tags: god

  • #7
    Gregory David Roberts
    “If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.”
    Gregory David Roberts

  • #8
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #9
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Any fool can make a rule
    And any fool will mind it.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14

  • #10
    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    James Baldwin

  • #11
    Ray Romano
    “Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”
    Ray Romano

  • #12
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #13
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #14
    Henry David Thoreau
    “for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #15
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #16
    “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust

  • #17
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #18
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I bid the chords sweet music make,
    And all must follow in my wake.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #19
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #20
    “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
    David C. Gross, Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs (Hippocrene Bilingual Proverbs)

  • #21
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Speeches

  • #22
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

  • #23
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #24
    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
    “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”
    Georg Lichtenberg

  • #25
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love

  • #26
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #27
    Charles Dickens
    “Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West



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