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“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.” | Lemony Snicket, |
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.” | S.E. Hinton |
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.” | Paulo Coelho, |
“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.” | Lady Gaga |
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” | J.M. Barrie, |
“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” | C.S. Lewis |
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” | Sarah Williams, |
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” | Fannie Flagg, |
“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.” | Lemony Snicket, |
“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.” | C.S. Lewis |
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” | C.G. Jung |
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” | G.K. Chesterton |
“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” | Chaim Potok, |
“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.” | China Miéville, |
“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.” | John Henry Newman |
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” | Bernard M. Baruch |
“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 |
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” | Harper Lee, |
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” | Charles W. Eliot |
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” | Albert Camus |
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” | Nicole Krauss, |
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” | Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus |
“I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.” | Veronica Roth, |
“I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.” | Cassandra Clare, |
“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” | Roy T. Bennett, |
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” | John Green, |
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” | Patrick Rothfuss, |
“He must have known I'd want to leave you.""No, he must have known you would always want to come back.” | J.K. Rowling, |
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.” | John Green, |
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” | C.S. Lewis |
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” | Henry James |
“Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” | Roy T. Bennett, |
“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” | Jonathan Safran Foer, |
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” | Oscar Wilde, |
“Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.” | Roy T. Bennett, |
“Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.” | Roy T. Bennett, |
“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.” | John Green, |
“Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.” | J.K. Rowling, |
“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.” | Sarah Dessen, |
“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.” | Groucho Marx |
“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .â€� The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.” | S.E. Hinton, |
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.” | Khaled Hosseini, |
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.” | Markus Zusak |
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.” | Harvey Fierstein |
“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.” | Guy de Maupassant |
“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” | Paulo Coelho, |
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” | Anne Frank |
“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.” | Nicole Krauss, |
“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.” | Steve Maraboli, |
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” | Marie Curie |
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.” | Haruki Murakami, |
“But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.” | J.K. Rowling, |
“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” | Maya Angelou |
“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 |
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” | Neil Gaiman, |
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” | J.K. Rowling, |
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” | Sarah Dessen, |
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” | Jim Henson |
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” | Albert Einstein |
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” | Dr. Seuss, |
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” | Joan Powers, |
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” | Jodi Picoult, |
“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, |
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” | Stephen King |
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” | C.S. Lewis |
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” | Carter Crocker |
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.” | Nicholas Klein |
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” | W.C. Fields |
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” | Roy T. Bennett, |
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” | Anna Quindlen, |
“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.” | Nicholas Sparks, |
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” | Kalu Ndukwe Kalu |
“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.” | Terry Pratchett, |
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” | Albert Einstein, |
“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” | Santosh Kalwar, |
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.” | L. Frank Baum, |
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ” | Agatha Christie, |
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.” | Kahlil Gibran |
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” | C.S. Lewis |
“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?” | Christopher Paolini |
“How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh” | A.A. Milne |
“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.” | Suzanne Collins, |
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea.” | e.e. cummings, |
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” | J.K. Rowling , |
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” | Friedrich Nietzsche |
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” | Eleanor Roosevelt |
“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.” | Nicholas Sparks |
“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” | David Levithan, |
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.” | Michael Ondaatje, |
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” | Lemony Snicket, |
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” | Abraham Lincoln |
“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.” | Emilie Autumn, |
“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.” | J. K. Rowling, |
“In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?” | Jack Kornfield, |
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.” | Lauren Oliver, |
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” | Leo Tolstoy |
“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 |