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- "Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." -Lao Tzu
- "For beautiful lips, speak words of kindness. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in othes. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
- "I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish." -- Markus Zusak
- "I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." -- Banksy
- "I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion." Yohji Yamamoto
- "I’m going to read what I want, listen to what I want and watch French films and I’m going to talk to people who know lots about lots." -- An Education
- "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." Albus Dumbledore
- "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot
- "Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for." Ray Bradbury
- "never compare yourself to the best others can do, but the best you can do."
- "One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others" Lewis Carroll
- "People will only rain on your parade when they are jealous of your sun and tired of their shade."
- "Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today." -- Andrew Carnegie
- "Scars are stories, history written on the body" Kathryn Harrison
- "Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth." -- Mary Wollstonecraft
- "So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them." - Sylvia Plath
- "Some pursue happiness - others create it." - Author Unknown
- "Success isn’t about achieving something in the future, but about doing something right now that you love." -Leo Babauta
- "That is part of the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from everyone. You Belong." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not, the opposite is true. You see the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun and the realists, well without the dreamers, they might never get off the ground."
- "Today is the oldest you've been and the youngest you'll ever be again."
- "Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know." -James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." -Albert Einstein
- "When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that." Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)
- "When something bad happens to you, you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you or you can let it strengthen you."
- "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" -- Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
- "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." Frank Zappa
- "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who don't write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation." -- Graham Greene
- "Your head is a living forest full of song birds." -- E.E. Cummings
- “Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.” -Unknown
- “Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” - Buddha
- “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” - Charles Bukowski
- “To live content with small means.... To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion.... To be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich.... To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly.... To listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart.... To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.... In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.... ...........this is to be my symphony.” William Henry Channing
- 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
- I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. - Jack London
- If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me! - J.M Barrie
- It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. Fyodor Dostoevsky
- It's not what you know, it's what you do with what you know. - Unknown
- Note to self: when you finally get something good, enjoy it. Don't go trying to get something better.
- Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. Clint Eastwood
- Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. - Peter Marshall
- Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. - Les Brown
- The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. - J.M Barrie
- The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. - Albert Einstein
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