"If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be."
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"If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it."
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them"
"Wisdom is knowing when you are being patient, and when you are wasting time by waiting."
"Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter."
"God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing."
"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course."
"The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I always said so."(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)"
"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."
"You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."
"It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be."
"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
"Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa."
"I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us."
"I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished."What I believe is alive ... and open to growth"
"With every challenge you face, there is an opportunity hidden that will lead you towards the path of wealth and abundance."
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