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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
    Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

  • #2
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #3
    Emilie Autumn
    “It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
    Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

  • #4
    “There is a certain strength in being alone.”
    Heather Duffy Stone, This Is What I Want to Tell You

  • #5
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
    Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

  • #6
    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    “Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.”
    Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature

  • #7
    Jenny Trout
    “I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.”
    Jennifer Armintrout, Possession

  • #8
    Thea Harrison
    “Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.”
    Thea Harrison, Oracle's Moon

  • #9
    Mother Teresa
    “Joy is strength.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #10
    Frederick Douglass
    “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #11
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #13
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

  • #14
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #16
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    Margaret Mitchell

  • #17
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #19
    Lisa Kleypas
    “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
    Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #21
    Jarod Kintz
    “More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement.”
    Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

  • #22
    “Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.”
    prixie

  • #23
    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #24
    Richard Yates
    “if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
    Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

  • #25
    Jarod Kintz
    “Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

  • #26
    Gautama Buddha
    “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
    Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

  • #27
    Toba Beta
    “There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.”
    Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

  • #28
    Matsuo Bashō
    “The journey itself is my home.”
    Matsuo Basho

  • #29
    Horatius
    “Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
    (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
    Horace, The Odes of Horace

  • #30
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."

    (Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)”
    Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol 11, January 1787 to August 1787

  • #31
    John Hope Franklin
    “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;”
    John Hope Franklin



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