- "Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all." - Jeanette Winterson
- "Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can." - Louisa May Alcott
- "Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness." - Leo Tolstoy
- "You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be." - Janet Finch
- "I know there are people who don’t read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time." - Diane Setterfield
- "Laughter is timeless…Imagination has no age…and dreams are forever." - Tinkerbell
- "I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can." - Jack Gilbert
- "She read tirelessly. She lost herself in novels. She loved men who didn’t exist from the vantage point of women who didn’t either."
- "Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement." - Lewis Thomas
- "May I a small house and large garden have, and a few friends, and many books, both true, both wise, and both delightful too!" - Abraham Cowley
- "Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you." - Mary Engelbreit
- "Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening, listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more." - Tasha Tudor
- "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
- "She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds." - Shannon Hale
- "Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl
- "I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." - Emma Goldman
- "Bookaholics are the ones who start to feel uncomfortable and uneasy in another person’s house, and suddenly realize there are no bookshelves or magazines lying around. People who only own a telephone book and their high school yearbooks scare us." - Robert Lee Hadden
- "The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller
- "I'll let you be in my dreams, if I can be in yours." - Bob Dylan
- "When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind." - Michel de Montaigne
- "Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." - Veronica A. Shoffstall
- "Tomorrow is never promised, so live for today. Put your ego aside, open your eyes to who and what’s around you. You are loved. You are cared for. You are blessed, always remember that. " - Junethea Crystal Centeno
- "I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place." - Ann Tyler
- "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel like you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
- "I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty." - Mark Haddon
- "After a long day, A cup of tea, cricket song, And the scent of books." - Sara Nagle
- "That's the way you live this life. Each day, one at a time. Now, if you spend your whole life worryin’ about something that’s gonna happen, before you know it, your life’s over and you spent an awful lot of it just worryin’. Hey, you heard that? Now that’s what life’s all about. Laughin’ and lovin’ each other. And knowin’ that people aren’t really gone when they die. We have all the good memories to sustain us until we see ‘em again." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
- "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - Lucille Ball
- "You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
- "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - G.K. Chesterton
- "He was the first, the only love of her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard." - Louisa May Alcott
- "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this." - Henry David Thoreau
- "Somehow she knew that you didn’t get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither the past nor the future mattered." - Neil Gaiman
- "Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininty, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error…." - Tasha Tudor
- "There are some things so serious, you have to laugh at them." - Niels Bohr
- "Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." - Mark Twain
- "If I had my life to live over, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax; I’d limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones." - Nadine Stair
- "But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
- "The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy." - Fra Giovanni
- "Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things." - Leo F. Buscaglia
- "You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight." - Elizabeth Gilbert
- "Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs." - Carl Sagan
- "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
- "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
- "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens
- "Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott
- "Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose." - Guillermo Maldonado
- "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?." - Oscar Wilde
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