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  • #1
    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    Will Rogers

  • #2
    Ishmael Beah
    “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
    Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  • #3
    Horace Mann
    “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
    Horace Mann

  • #4
    Alan Paton
    “Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
    Alan Paton

  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “كانت المكتبة بمثابة بيتي الثاني, أو لعلها كانت بيتي الحقيقي أكثر من المكان الذي عشت فيه !”
    Haruki Murakami

  • #6
    Elif Shafak
    “لا تسيري مع التيار، بل كوني أنتِ التيار.”
    Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

  • #7
    Elif Shafak
    “و لو أراد الله أن نكون متشابهين ،لخلقنا متشابهين ، لذلك فإن عدم احترام الاختلافات وفرض أفكارك علي الآخرين يعني عدم احترام النظام المقدس الذي أرساه الله”
    Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

  • #8
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    Johnny Cash

  • #9
    “نحن نرى ما نريد أن نراه لا ما هو واقع فعلا!”
    د.شريف عرفة

  • #10
    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #11
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #12
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

  • #13
    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #14
    Anthony  Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #15
    Seán O'Casey
    “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
    Sean O'Casey

  • #16
    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    Anna Quindlen

  • #17
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • #18
    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    Diana Nyad

  • #19
    William Saroyan
    “When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
    William Saroyan

  • #20
    Audrey Hepburn
    “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #22
    Eavan Boland
    “As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
    Eavan Boland

  • #23
    Elizabeth Bishop
    “The art of losing isn't hard to master;
    so many things seemed filled with the intent
    to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
    Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

  • #24
    James Agee
    “Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
    James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

  • #25
    Marilynne Robinson
    “There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
    Marilynne Robinson, Home

  • #26
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #27
    Sarah Vowell
    “Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
    Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

  • #28
    Jill Ker Conway
    “An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.”
    Jill Ker Conway



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