One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir
The upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
Sheryl Sandberg
I like books that aren’t just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
Emma Watson
Life isn’t about perfection. There is no rule book. Life has many different chapters and every chapter deserves celebrating.
Reese Witherspoon
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life”.
Maya Angelou
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
John Green
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron
Words are the only things that last forever.
William Hazlitt
Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
Sylvia Plath
You can accomplish amazing things, beyond what you ever anticipated, when you put yourself out there and just try.
Renée Brinkerhoff
This is not a rehearsal. This is your life.
Maya Angelou
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Enter this new year with gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.
Avina Celeste
You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.
Hillary Depiano
The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.
Melody Beattie
That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver’s stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.
Paul Magrs
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
J.K. Rowling
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda MeirSpread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother TeresaGrief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
Arianna Huffington
We read to know that we are not alone.
C.S. Lewis
Whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.
Neil Gaiman
The space of dreaming and manifesting is such a powerful source and leads you to achieve more than what you originally thought was possible.
Laverne Cox
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Jean Rhys
We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
Queen Elizabeth II
I believe that, young or old, we have as much to look forward to with confidence and hope as we have to look back on with pride.
Queen Elizabeth II
The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.
Queen Elizabeth II
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Harold Kushner
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott
If we are true to ourselves, we cannot be false to anyone.
William Shakespeare
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn’t allow that person to stay in my world.
Gabrielle Union
Books are the plane and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.
Anna Quindien
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you’re doing something you like, eventually, you’ll get good at it.
Brigitte Kaandorp
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
James Baldwin
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
Umberto Eco
All the things you’re worried about are not important. Spend less time tearing yourself apart, worrying if you’re good enough. You are good enough.
Reese Witherspoon
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
You have been in every line I have ever read.
Charles Dickens
Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are things we can’t see.
Chris Van Allsburg
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. Lewis
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
Neil Gaiman
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou
In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.
Virginia Woolf
The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us.
Mary Oliver
We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
Michelle Obama
I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.
Hoda Kotb
I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.
Thuli Madonsela
You are never alone when lost in the magic of a book.
Marie Lu
Butterflies are like women – we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane.
Betty White
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.
John J. Geddes
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Brené Brown
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine Albright
I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.
B. Smith
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.
Emma Watson
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.
Emma Thompson
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
Lucille Ball
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
Shonda Rhimes
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyoncé Knowles Carter
I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.
Estée Lauder
The key to success is to start before you’re ready.
Marie Forleo
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
Bob Marley
I’m sort of in love with what I don’t know. I’m in awe of what is not explainable or predictable.
Meryl Streep
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
Sheryl Sandberg
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
J.K. Rowling
Some women have a weakness for shoes. I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
Oprah Winfrey
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all of your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.
Loretta Lynch
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
Arianna Huffington
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place – or not to bother.
Jane Goodall
I will never have this version of me again, let me slow down and be with her.
Rupi Kaur
The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page.
Rachel Anders
If you hear a voice within you say “You cannot paint”, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Stories have a way that they can change our hearts and our minds – they can help us see each other in a new light and have empathy to recognize that for all our diversity, we are human first.
Jane Fonda
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
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
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
Every now and then it helps to be a little deaf… That advice has stood me in good stead. Not simply in dealing with my marriage, but in dealing with my colleagues.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We shall never know how much good a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.
Harper Lee
The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
Octavia Spencer
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
Christopher Paolini
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
Rarely are opportunities presented to you in the perfect way, in a nice little box with a yellow bow on top… Opportunities, the good ones, they’re messy and confusing and hard to recognise. They’re risky. They challenge you.
Susan Wojcicki
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
Louisa May Alcott
For somehow, not only for Christmas, but all the long year through, the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Listen to your instinct, grab the opportunity when it presents itself and then give it your all.
Helen Mirren
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Doris Lessing
If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Shirley Chisholm
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
Go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Oprah Winfrey
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act too impulsively without thinking.
Margaret Chase Smith
It’s good to push yourself and do what you don’t necessarily want to do, that if you’re not automatically good at it, you should try it. Trying is so important.
Meryl Streep
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What would you do if you weren’t afraid? Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
Sheryl Sandberg
It’s okay to not be looking at what everyone else is looking at all of the time.
Amy Poehler
Memories of our lives, of our works, and our deeds will continue in others.
Rosa Parks
You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
Michelle Obama
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
You could certainly say that I never underestimated myself, there’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.
Angela Merkel
Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognised as the person they are and not a stereotype or an image.
Loretta Lynch
Don’t be humble, you aren’t that great.
Golda Meir
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.
Arianna Huffington
Don’t sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Madam C.J. Walker
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be obtained.
Marie Curie
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss
Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anaïs Nin
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
What we do and say and show really matters.
Christiane Amanpour
Starting a novel isn’t so different from starting a marriage. The dreams you pin on these people are enormous.
Ann Patchett
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
Neil Gaiman
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Anonymous
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J.K. Rowling
Stepping from the title to the first lines is like stepping into a canoe. A lot of things can go wrong.
Billy Collins
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne
Be open to change: just because it’s typed on your lovely computer, it doesn’t mean it’s any good.
Tracy Chevalier
A writer, like an athlete, must “train” every day. What did I do today to keep in “form”?
Susan Sontag
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire
We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
Margaret Atwood
I encourage women to step up. Don’t wait for somebody to ask you.
Reese Witherspoon
Good things can happen when you’re being silly. Does that mean smoking a joint sometimes? For me it does.
Armistead Maupin
We are the hero of our own story.
Mary McCarthy
Burn your bra.
Anonymous
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Charles Bukowski
A fanatic is always a fellow that is on the opposite side.
Will Rogers
Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t you think?
L. Frank Baum
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.
George Orwell
Keep your butt in the chair. You do it at the same time every day. You never wait for inspiration – it’s ridiculous. It will never come.
Anne Lamott
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.
Eugene McCarthy
Don’t give up your job. Get up earlier, make the space. If it matters to you, make it matter.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There is no place like home.
L. Frank Baum
I don’t want to be struck by lightning and don’t need certain slants of light in order to write.
Toni Morrison
I want to get my book about the future finished by the end of the summer. It advances slowly – and the future becomes more and more appalling with every chapter.
Aldous Huxley
I love the smell of food.
Joseph Heller
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
Jeanette Winterson
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
Margaret Atwood
I don’t care what they say about me as long as they spell my name right.
Anonymous
Well-behaved women rarely make history.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Now, everything is funny, as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers
One man with courage makes a majority.
Anonymous
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
William Makeapeace Thackeray
He has been marked by the past, and once that happens, nothing can be done about it. Something happens and then it goes on happening forever.
Paul Auster
When the going gets tough, choose your cliché.
Joanne M. Harris
The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful.
Zadie Smith
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody. But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
Truman Capote
Always remember you matter, you’re important and you are loved, and you bring to this world things no one else can.
Charlie Mackesy
A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.
L. Frank Baum
You give the air of looking for someone. But I think the missing person is yourself.
John le Carré
Memory believes before knowing remembers.
William Faulkner
Each time you happen to me all over again.
Edith Wharton
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Italo Svevo
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Jane Austen
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Walt Kelly
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.
Agatha Christie
According to their rules, any sin is acceptable provided it is carried off in good taste.
Evelyn Waugh
Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Aldous Huxley
There’s a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours – days, if I have to.
Jennifer Egan
One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
Muriel Spark
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Lewis Carroll
It doesn’t matter that you are not here in person as long as you are here in my heart.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.
Kenneth Goldsmith
Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn.
Ursula K. le Guin
It doesn’t matter where you write so long as you have the walls, typewriter, paper, beer. You can write out of a volcano pit.
Charles Bukowski
Sometimes I think of the books I’ll never read that would have changed my life.
Jonathan Safran Foer
We do not inherit the world from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Anonymous
Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
Margaret Atwood
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
D.H. Lawrence
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
Isabel Allende
There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.
Patti Smith
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.
Anonymous
You see things and you say: why? But I dream things that never were, and I say: why not?
George Bernard Shaw
I’ve reached that age where my brain goes from “You probably shouldn’t say that” to “What the hell, let’s see what happens”.
Anonymous
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Anonymous
Rules are like pie crust, made to be broken.
Anonymous
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron
Sometimes I have to tell myself: “It’s just not worth the jail time.”
Anonymous
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey
He who has a why to live for can endure almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff.
Robert S. Eliot
My entire life can be summed up in one sentence… “Well, that didn’t go as planned.”
Anonymous
You’re only here for a short while so be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
Walter Hagen
Experience is merely the name we give our mistakes.
Anonymous
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Professionals built the Titanic. Amateurs built the Ark.
Anonymous
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Anonymous
Insanity consists of doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different result.
Anonymous
Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner
I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.
Anonymous
All the things I like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person.
Jorge Luis Borges
Uncomplicate yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
Every time we try to eat healthy, along comes Christmas, Easter, summer, Friday or Tuesday and ruins it for us.
Anonymous
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
Charles Baudelaire
Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea.
Joyce Carol Oates
I’m so old, I can remember going through a whole day without taking a picture of anything.
Anonymous
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing.
Thomas Jefferson
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance.
Robert Heinlein
When somebody says, ‘This is not about money, it’s the principle of the thing’, it’s about money.
Kin Hubbard
Sarcasm. Because slapping people in the face is illegal.
Anonymous
Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
J.P. McEvoy
I would rather have my column on one thousand refrigerator doors than win a Pulitzer.
Ann Landers
I don’t care where we eat… As long as it’s not the 7 places you just named.
Anonymous
Worst of all I fear mediocrity.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like Ancient Egypt.
Ray Bradbury
Adulthood has shown me that you really don’t need fun to have alcohol.
Anonymous
If you steal from one person, it’s plagiarism. If you steal from several, it’s called research.
Wilson Mizner
Everyone has a hidden talent they don’t know about until the tequila is poured.
Anonymous
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
I regret every nap I never took.
Anonymous
There is no hope for an idea that at first does not seem insane.
Anonymous
Dying is no big deal, the least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.
Red Smith
The first draft of anything is shit.
Ernest Hemingway
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Irina Dunn
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Life is long if you know how to use it.
Seneca
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes – including you.
Anne Lamott
Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan – that is the rule.
John Fowles
A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.
Anonymous
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