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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Haruki Murakami
    “Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
    Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
    Haruki Murakami, After Dark

  • #7
    Haruki Murakami
    “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
    Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

  • #8
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #10
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #11
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #12
    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #13
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #14
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    Woody Allen

  • #15
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    Bob Marley

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #17
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #18
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #19
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #20
    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

  • #21
    Alain de Botton
    “Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #22
    Alain de Botton
    “It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.”
    Alain de Botton, On Love

  • #23
    Alain de Botton
    “To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #24
    Alain de Botton
    “There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #26
    Ryan Holiday
    “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
    Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic

  • #27
    Ryan Holiday
    “It may take some hard work.But the more you say no to the things that don’t matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.”
    Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

  • #28
    Ryan Holiday
    “A degree on a wall means you’re educated as much as shoes on your feet mean you’re walking. It’s a start, but hardly sufficient.”
    Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

  • #29
    Ryan Holiday
    “Just because you’ve begun down one path doesn’t mean you’re committed to it forever , especially if that path turns out to be flawed or impeded. At that same time, this is not an excuse to be flighty or incessantly noncommittal.”
    Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

  • #30
    Ryan Holiday
    “You become the sum of your actions, and as you do, what flows from that—your impulses—reflect the actions you’ve taken. Choose wisely.”
    Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic



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