There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry w... - Gustave Flaubert

"Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live."

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"