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Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy
-Bob Marley

We’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
-F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks
that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can
disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.
-ALICE KINGSLEIGH (MIA WASIKOWSKA), ALICE IN WONDERLAND

“ I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in
my sleep, or of old age, or OD…I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it,
smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it.
-Jim Morrison

“ Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain

“ In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of
failure.
-Bill Cosby

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming
along and trying to put things in it.
— Terry Pratchett

“ Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you’re
not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. Every moment
together is a choice.
— Walter Kirn

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou

“ The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
— Joe Ancis

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

-Cicero

“ When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly,stupid smile on
their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we
can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We
cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and
sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing
and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and
cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
— Looking For Alaska

“The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the
only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know
yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.”
-Mike Dooley

“I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals
something new and that is ultimately good for the soul.”
-Billy Joel

“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”
-Albus Dumbledore

“Did it ever occur to you that you’re so caught up in trying to make the right choice
that you’ve never stopped to consider the possibility that there may not be a right
choice, or a wrong choice, just a bunch of choices?”
-Dawsons Creek

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no
one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
-Harvey Fierstein

“Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories
resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big
scary unknown”
Chuck Palahniuk

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of
a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
-Louis E. Boone

“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who
knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can
be summarized in the four C’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy,
and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the
way, implicitly and unquestionably.”
-Walt Disney

“You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.”
-Frank Sinatra

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
- Mary Manin Morrissey

“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then
penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
- Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain.

Everybody.
Everybody has their story to tell.”
-V, V for Vendetta [Book One: Chapter 3, Victims]

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
-Mark Twain

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You
don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of
your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
-Johnny Cash

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
-Robert Francis Kenndey

“A piece of paper may tell your past and present but it does not tell you who you
are.”

— Ralph Worley Sr. | awelcomedifference

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It
was here first.”

— Mark Twain

“Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. It’s not much fun to look forward
to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music
right now absorbs you and places you in the present moment.”

— Sonnett Branche

"Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?”
“As if something was left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts,
sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find
yourself there too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had
preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar."
Mo, Inkspell (Inkheart Trilogy)

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
Albus Dumbledore

"Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less.
Sometimes you love them more."
nicholas sparks

" I reject your reality and substitute for it my own."

a quote from ~ adam savage

"Sometimes imagination is more important than how well you can articulate it."
Anonymous

"Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in how they look. Not in how they act. But in who
they are."
 Markus Zusak

"We all have a story to tell

Whether we whisper or yell
We all have a story of adolescence and all it’s glory"
Happily Ever After (He Is We)

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading.

It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination."
Elizabeth Hardwick

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or
sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting
our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to
invent something better."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."
David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas

“Don’t feel stupid if you do not like what everyone else pretends to love.”

— Patrick Mimran
“Througho ut human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing
fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos,
it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities
who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing,
forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question
authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness;
chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.”

— Timothy Leary

“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters,
and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”

— Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t
practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but
nothing consistently without courage.”

— MAYA ANGELOU

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure
about the former.”

— Albert Einstein (via firebluespinel)

“Maybe it’s not too late

To learn how to love and forget how to hate”

— Ozzy Osbourne

“Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.”

— Optimus Prime

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you
must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and
dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

— J. Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher (via julie911, quote-book, electrickcity)

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his
deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
 — MAYA ANGELOU

“Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.”

— Claude McDonald

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not
a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”

— Vince Lombardi (via chickenshit)

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our
travels is an honest friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

— G.K. Chesterton (via fictitious-tales)

“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the
music.”

— Angela Monet (via girlwithoutwings)

“She didn’t lose. She was merely wise enough to looks past it.”

— Razel Trinos

“Fairytales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but that
they can be beaten”

— G. K Chesterson

“It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief
… lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it’s not so
overwhelming.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“You cannot put the same shoe on every foot”

 — Publilius Syrus

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely
precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

— Oscar Wilde

“May you live every day of your life.”

— Jonathan Swift

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what
they are.”

— Markus Zusak

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

— Richard Bach

“Grab your coat, grab your keys, let’s take to the road and bring the world to it’s
knees.”

“It doesn’t matter what the moves look like, but how your body reacts to the music”

— Jeremy Zamora

“Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions.
People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we
speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and
our faith, music proves: We are the same.”

— John Denver

“Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose
where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about
them.”
 — The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

“Leaving behind, or being left behind… I wonder which is more painful.”

— Fruits Basket, by Natsuki Takaya

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be
damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt |

“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to dream. In a world filled with anger,
we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to
dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”

— Michael Jackson

“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.”

— Cynthia Nelms

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

— Rumi

“Happiness is momentary. Joy is everlasting. That is how we know the difference.”

— Joshua Bennett (via makinglovetodreams)

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what
you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”

— Gail Sheehy

“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
 — Roy Croft (via avis-nugroho)

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the
present moment.”

— Buddha

“Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”

— Donald Miller

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own
pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s
another to think that yours is the only path.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose
where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about
them.”

— The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like
thorn.”

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“When you’re gone, the World starts again, and I don’t like it as much. I can live in it,
but I don’t like it.”

— James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be

lonely alone.”

— Tennessee Williams ( submitted by: Lehava)

“The camera never lies. Except it always does.”

— James Franco, General Hospital

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats (via virginiawoolf)

We read to know that we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis (via loveyourchaos)

I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve
gotten from books.
Go Ask Alice, Beatrice Sparks (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via virginiawoolf)

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and
suck out all the marrow of life.
Henry David Thoreau

“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two
things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”
— The Summer King, O.R. Melling
“Never mistake kindness for weakness. Never take advantage of another person’s
time or good will. Never stoop to conquer. Never think you’ll get away with it. Never
forget where you came from. Never give up.”

— Philosophy

“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”

“Don’t dream your life, but live your dream.”

— Mark Twain

“What is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without
a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to
appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your
suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”

— Mark Twain

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk
failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.”

— Henry Rollins
“You can call it devine intervention, luck, fate, circumstance, or opportunity, but
when you meet that one person who changes your life forever. That one person who
steered you towards a path you’d never seen before or thought would be possible.
They provide you with guidance, support, and exposed your confidence when you
thought there wasn’t any left. Their insight and smarts unparalled to anyone else.
You wonder and think back, how you as a human being would be like now had you
not met them. Would you have accomplished the things you did? Would you have
seen the world brighter if not for them? Would you still be pursuing your ultimate
dream? I just want to say thank you for coming into my life, and showing me the
light when it was dark.”

“I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would
have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.
So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.”

— Kurt Cobain

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be
intolerably stupid.” — Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)"

I will be bold and seen. Where you will just blend in, like anyother face in the crowd.

You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” — C.S. Lewis

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used
to the idea.” — Robert A. Heinlein

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” — Ralph
Waldo Emerson

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.” — Bill Gates

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare (All’s Well That
Ends Well)

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are
kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest,
people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be
jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do
good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give
your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never
between you and them anyway.” — Mother Teresa

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what
is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and
kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember
Cedric Diggory.” — J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” — Albert
Einstein

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)

It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

I love mankind, it’s people I can’t stand.” — Charles M. Schulz

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous

than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself
any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And
YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” — Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” — Virginia Woolf

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss
people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you
believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good
things fall apart so better things can fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark
Twain

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of
false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit
better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to
know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” — Malcolm X

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness,
it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the
opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is
strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a
fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade
that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.” — J.R.R. Tolkien (The
Fellowship of the Ring)

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t
read them.” — Mark Twain

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more

important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
— Albert Einstein

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas
Adams

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” — Dr. Seuss

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas A. Edison

Without music, life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs
in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with
them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some
may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy
enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” — Apple
Computer Inc.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the
greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they’re put in
hot water.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert
Frost

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

— Oscar Wilde

There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing - light
trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the
dark into the light.

Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult (via beautiful-quotes)

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to
live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then
I will either wait for him or forget him. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But
not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Paulo Coelho (via beautiful-quotes)

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.” — Albert Camus

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and
those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around to catch you”
-John De Paolo
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you
would lie if you were in his place.

HL Menchen

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.
I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with
that, you know. I’m one of those people.

John Lennon

The earth is my body; my head is in the stars.”

— Harold and Maude

“How strange and sick the ‘fat’ insult is. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a
human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’,
‘boring’ or ‘cruel’?”

— J.K. Rowling 

“We say life is hard, when really it’s easy. and we’re just too numb to notice we’ve
only got one.”

— Chad Sugg

Just because you’re leaving doesn’t mean I’m letting you go.”

— Peter Gallagher, The O.C.

Sometimes I act a lot older than I am - I really do - but people never notice it. People
never notice anything.”

— Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye

“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed,
yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new
fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.”

— John Steinbeck
“I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone
is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more
times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the
man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far
too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in
romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert-  Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy,
India and Indonesia

“Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.”

— Mohandas Gandhi

“Living up to your own expectations can be the hardest part of life.”

“You’re mad. Bonkers. Off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret - all the best people
are.”

— Alice in Wonderland (2010)

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without

accepting it.”

— Aristotle, Metaphysics

“If you believe in yourself and with a tiny bit of magic, all your dreams can come
true.”

— Spongebob Squarepants (via sandelina)

“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here.”

— Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone, JK Rowling) | submitted
by leftyounowhere

“Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t
get any better, it can.”

— Nicholas Sparks

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and
those who matter don't mind."
 — Dr. Seuss
—
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never
been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

— Walt Disney

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."

— Walt Disney

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

“It is not until you awaken and become fully present that you will realize that you
have not been present. It is not until you awaken that you will realize you have been
asleep, dreaming that you are awake.”

— Leonard Jacobson

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't
complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your
thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"
— Bob Marley

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.

None but ourselves can free our minds."
— Bob Marley

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston S. Churchill

“Come mothers and fathers throughout the land and dont criticize what you can’t
understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old
road is rapidly agin. Please get out of the new one if you cant lend your hand, for the
times they are a-changin.”

— Bob Dylan (The Times Are A-Changin’)

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” — Helen
Keller”

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the

opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston S. Churchill

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People
that like to read are always a little fucked up.”

— Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides)

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and
possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no
one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries;
avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken;
it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be
vulnerable.”
 — C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no
notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us.
And the world will live as one.”

— John Lennon

“Life is all about timing… the unreachable becomes reachable, the

unavailable become available, the unattainable… attainable. Have
the patience, wait it out It’s all about timing.”

—Stacey Charter

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. you can’t own it, but you can use it.
you can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can
never get it back”

—Harvey MacKay

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who

can’t see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to
speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them
on people.”

— E. Lockhart

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”

—Mark Twain

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are

simple.”

—Dr. Seuss

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is
a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally

dislike."
— Oscar Wilde

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly
exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
— William Styron

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often

helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
— Joyce Carol Oates

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should
be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to
another mind."
— James Russell Lowell

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world
its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

— Socrates

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from

mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding
the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and
chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

—Albert Einstein

“The greatest glory in living, lies not in never falling, but in rising every
time we fall.”

—Nelson Mandela

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great.”

—Mark Twain

Books! And cleverness! There are more important things —

friendship and bravery.
Hermione Granger

"You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and
heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no
memory, no....anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll
just exist. As an empty shell."
Remus Lupin

"When you’re a little kid, you never think that you’lldie. I mean,
death is just some obscure, esotericthingthat youseeon TV or
read about in abook. Then one day yourealize what itreally is.
Then nothing is ever the same again. From thatday on, you’re
fucked."