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The Book’s Quotes

“Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

tags: life-lessons

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“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues

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“it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you ARE lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered a few feet off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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“Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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“Whoever he is, he is not worth all this.

And I will never
unclench my teeth long enough
to tell him so.”
― Alice Walker, Goodnight Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning

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Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more

Global Book Selections — 269 members — last activity Jun 03, 2018 06:26PM
This group is to celebrate FICTION books FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD by reading them, reviewing them (if interested & linking to affiliated website), then ...more

Around the World — 1905 members — last activity Aug 10, 2026 03:58PM
Each year we look at our to-be-read shelves and choose which countries of the world we want to travel through. Some of our members map their journeys ...more