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"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

Maya Angelou

Letter to My Daughter

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Books & Reading

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

George R.R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons

Books & Reading

"Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic."

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Books & Reading

"The more that you read, the more things you will know."

Dr. Seuss

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

Humor

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Humor

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."

Louisa May Alcott

Work

Books & Reading

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

Neil Gaiman

Attributed

Adventure

"Not all those who wander are lost."

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring

Courage

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring

Wisdom

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring

Wisdom

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Wisdom

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Hope

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Wisdom

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

Rumi

Masnavi

Wisdom

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

Rumi

Masnavi

Love

"What you seek is seeking you."

Rumi

Masnavi

Wisdom

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

Rumi

Divan

Wisdom

"Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation."

Rumi

Masnavi

Wisdom

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

Rumi

Masnavi

Love

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love."

Rumi

Masnavi

Life

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

Wisdom

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

Love

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

Wisdom

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

Love

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

William Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well

Nature

"The earth has music for those who listen."

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

Life

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

Hope

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

Emily Dickinson

Poems

Life

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

Emily Dickinson

Letters

Life

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."

Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Courage

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

Maya Angelou

Letter to My Daughter

Wisdom

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Maya Angelou

Attributed

Life

"Nothing will work unless you do."

Maya Angelou

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Courage

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake."

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali

Courage

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

Rabindranath Tagore

Attributed

Wisdom

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

Rabindranath Tagore

Fireflies

Life

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali

Hope

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

Rabindranath Tagore

Attributed

Courage

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom

Courage

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

Eleanor Roosevelt

You Learn by Living

Adventure

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

Helen Keller

The Open Door

Courage

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Courage

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."

Frank Herbert

Dune

Love

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

Audrey Hepburn

Attributed

Love

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

Edgar Allan Poe

Annabel Lee

Love

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116

Love

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Courage

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

Wisdom

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

Albert Einstein

Attributed

Wisdom

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

Socrates

Attributed

Wisdom

"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

Voltaire

Attributed

Nature

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

Albert Einstein

Letter

Life

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by."

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

Humor

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

Attributed

Humor

"I can resist everything except temptation."

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

Humor

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

Oscar Wilde

Attributed

Humor

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

Oscar Wilde

The Happy Prince

Nature

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."

John Muir

Journal

Nature

"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth."

Chief Seattle

Speech

Nature

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees."

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Grief

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

Queen Elizabeth II

Speech

Grief

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

C.S. Lewis

A Grief Observed

Grief

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King

Hope

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."

Christopher Reeve

Still Me

Hope

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

Martin Luther King Jr.

Speech

Hope

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

Nelson Mandela

Speech

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