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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #4
    Arthur Golden
    “This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
    Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

  • #5
    Arthur Golden
    “I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”
    Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

  • #6
    Henry David Thoreau
    “One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #7
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #8
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #9
    Delia Owens
    “She could read anything now, he said, and once you can read anything you can learn everything. It was up to her. “Nobody's come close to filling their brains,” he said. “We're all like giraffes not using their necks to reach the higher leaves.”
    Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #13
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #15
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Richard Bach
    “I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.”
    Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy

  • #18
    Joseph Heller
    “I will give you intelligence," submitted the Creator, "enough knowledge to destroy everything on earth, but you will have to use it."
    "Done!" said our ancestor and that was our Genesis.”
    Joseph Heller, Closing Time

  • #19
    John Steinbeck
    “His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #20
    William Kent Krueger
    “The beauty isn't in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.”
    William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

  • #21
    Henry David Thoreau
    “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #22
    Khaled Hosseini
    “some stories don't need telling”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #23
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: moon

  • #24
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Sad stories make good books”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #25
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #26
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #27
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #28
    “Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we've touched.”
    Will Fetters, Memoirs

  • #29
    Harper Lee
    “Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #30
    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See



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