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“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.” | Sean O'Casey |
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them” | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, |
“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, |
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.” | Terry Pratchett, |
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” | Gustave Flaubert |
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” | C.S. Lewis, |
“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.” | Robert Frost, |
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” | William Shakespeare, |
“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.” | Lemony Snicket, |
“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.” | Nicholas Sparks, |
“If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.” | William Shakespeare, |
“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.” | John Green, |
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” | James A. Baldwin |
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” | Anais Nin, |
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?” | A. A. Milne, |
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.” | Lemony Snicket, |
“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” | J.K. Rowling |
“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.” | Markus Zusak, |
“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.” | Natalie Babbitt, |
“Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!” | J.K. Rowling, |
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” | George Bernard Shaw, |
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” | Leo Tolstoy, |
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.” | Jodi Picoult |
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut” | Albert Einstein |
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” | Mahatma Gandhi |
“Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.” | Sheng Wang |
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?” | Chuck Palahniuk, |
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” | James Baldwin, |
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.” | Steve Maraboli, |
“Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?” | Cassandra Clare, |
“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.” | Anne Sexton, |
“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....” | Erica Jong |
“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” | Brian Selznick, |
“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.” | Emily Brontë, |
“if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.” | Johnny Depp |
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” | J.K. Rowling, |
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.” | John Green, |
“The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” | Douglas Adams, |
“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, |
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.” | John Green, |
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” | C.S. Lewis |
“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, |
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” | Paulo Coelho, |
“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.” | Veronica Roth, |
“You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!""What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?” | J.K. Rowling, |
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” | Jane Austen, |
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...” | Khaled Hosseini, |
“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant.” | Rick Riordan, |
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” | Joseph Campbell |
“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” | Roy T. Bennett, |
“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” | Leo Tolstoy, |
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” | Aldous Huxley, |
“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ” | Stephen Chbosky, |
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.” | Sylvia Plath, |
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” | William Blake, |
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” | Jane Austen, |
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” | Charlotte Brontë, |
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” | August Wilson |
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC” | kurt vonnegut |
“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” | Malcolm X, |
“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.” | Christopher Paolini, |
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” | Stephen Hawking |
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” | Émile Zola |
“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.” | Robert Jordan |
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” | Albert Einstein |
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...” | C.S. Lewis |
“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 |
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” | Charles Darwin, |
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” | Martin Luther King Jr. |
“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!” | Thomas Babington Macaulay, |
“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?” | Ned Vizzini, |
“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” | Ben Okri |
“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?” | J.K. Rowling, |
“I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners."Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” | Robert Frost |
“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” | John Green, |
“Do you hate people?â€�“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.” | Charles Bukowski, |
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.” | Lemony Snicket |
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” | C.S. Lewis |
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” | Virginia Woolf, |
“If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.” | H.N. Turteltaub, |
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” | Mark Twain |
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” | F. Scott Fitzgerald, |
“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” | Mark Twain |
“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” | A.A. Milne, |
“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, |
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” | Tom Bodett |
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” | oscar wilde |
“Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously."Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” | Mark Twain, |
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.” | Kahlil Gibran |
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” | Mark Twain |
“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” | Patrick Ness, |
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” | Roy T. Bennett, |
“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?” | Nicholas Sparks, |
“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.” | Steven Wright |