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  1. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still. Maya Angelou
  2. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop… Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  3. No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  4. He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the… Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  5. The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  6. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho
  7. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. Paulo Coelho
  8. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Paulo Coelho
  9. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. Paulo Coelho
  10. People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. Paulo Coelho
  11. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho
  12. For you, a thousand times over. Khaled Hosseini
  13. There is a way to be good again. Khaled Hosseini
  14. It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a… Khaled Hosseini
  15. A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer. Khaled Hosseini
  16. Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. Khaled Hosseini
  17. And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. John Steinbeck
  18. It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. John Steinbeck
  19. Now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. John Steinbeck
  20. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. John Steinbeck
  21. I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. John Steinbeck
  22. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf
  23. No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. Virginia Woolf
  24. Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf
  25. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf
  26. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
  27. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde
  28. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde
  29. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte
  30. I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Charlotte Brontë
  31. I would always rather be happy than dignified. Charlotte Brontë
  32. It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they… Charlotte Brontë
  33. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
  34. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Herman Melville
  35. To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo
  36. Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo
  37. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo
  38. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what… Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  39. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  40. All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  41. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  42. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil Gibran
  43. Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Kahlil Gibran
  44. Work is love made visible. Kahlil Gibran
  45. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Kahlil Gibran
  46. There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving. Aldous Huxley
  47. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
  48. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let… Ray Bradbury
  49. Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. Ray Bradbury
  50. Love what you do and do what you love. Ray Bradbury
  51. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J.K. Rowling
  52. We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. J.K. Rowling
  53. 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
  54. The ones that love us never really leave us. J.K. Rowling
  55. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau
  56. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. Henry David Thoreau
  57. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
  58. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
  59. I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now. Louisa May Alcott
  60. Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go. Louisa May Alcott
  61. Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. Louisa May Alcott
  62. Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet. L.M. Montgomery
  63. True friends are always together in spirit. L.M. Montgomery
  64. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
  65. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank
  66. I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. Markus Zusak
  67. Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are. Markus Zusak
  68. The marks humans leave are too often scars. John Green
  69. Maybe okay will be our always. John Green
  70. That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt. John Green
  71. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. Stephen Chbosky
  72. We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there. Stephen Chbosky
  73. You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. E.B. White
  74. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. E.B. White
  75. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. Roald Dahl
  76. Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world. Roald Dahl
  77. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Roald Dahl
  78. Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. Madeleine L'Engle
  79. The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle
  80. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett
  81. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. Frances Hodgson Burnett
  82. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Alice Walker
  83. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. Alice Walker
  84. There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston
  85. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets. Zora Neale Hurston
  86. When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk. Chinua Achebe
  87. A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. Chinua Achebe
  88. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus
  89. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse
  90. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. Hermann Hesse
  91. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. Hermann Hesse
  92. The most important questions are the ones that have no answers. Milan Kundera
  93. And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain. When you… Haruki Murakami
  94. Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. Haruki Murakami
  95. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami
  96. If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Yann Martel
  97. It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards. Yann Martel
  98. We are all the pieces of what we remember. Cassandra Clare
  99. A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood
  100. Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some. Margaret Atwood
  101. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. Margaret Atwood
  102. What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? George Eliot
  103. It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. George Eliot
  104. Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb… Jack Kerouac
  105. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Jack Kerouac
  106. I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath
  107. I am not afraid of anything in this world. There is nothing they can do to me. Sylvia Plath
  108. I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this… Kurt Vonnegut
  109. Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Kurt Vonnegut
  110. You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. Cormac McCarthy
  111. Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. Cormac McCarthy
  112. Hell is the absence of the people you long for. Emily St. John Mandel
  113. Survival is insufficient. Emily St. John Mandel
  114. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. Elizabeth Gilbert
  115. The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was… Elizabeth Gilbert
  116. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Elizabeth Gilbert
  117. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others. Mitch Albom
  118. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to… Mitch Albom
  119. Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. Anthony Doerr
  120. So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. Anthony Doerr

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