October 2011
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“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp,...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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September 2011
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“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
– Woody Allen
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“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein
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“A man is literally what he thinks.”
– James Allen
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“A coward dies a thousand deaths… a soldier dies but once.”
– William Shakespeare
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“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
– Kurt Cobain
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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a...”
– Nicole Krauss
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“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in...”
– H.G. Wells
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“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an...”
– Albert Schweitzer
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“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the...”
– Lewis Thomas (via joshuakaufman)
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“A library is infinity under a roof.”
– Gail Carson Levine
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“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
– Rumi
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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous...”
– Agatha Christie
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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to...”
– Saul Bellow
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“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Gary Provost (via atomos)
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“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via ellephanta)
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“Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get...”
– Libba Bray (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of...”
– Jerry Spinelli (via fakepalindromes)
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“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the...”
– Carl Sagan (via blua)
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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
– Henry Adams
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“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
– Emily Dickinson
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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“Be as you wish to seem.”
– Socrates (via lafemmeboheme)
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“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth...”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
– Roald Dahl
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“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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