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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"There's nothing like an inspirational quote to get readers in the mood."
A Wise Man
“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
Nasir-i Khusraw
March 7, 2016
“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
Amy Tan
March 6, 2016
“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”
Katherine Mansfield
March 5, 2016
“We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
Natalie Angier
March 4, 2016
“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
Matt Groening
March 3, 2016
“And also don't forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
Clifford Irving
March 2, 2016
“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
Agostinho da Silva
March 1, 2016
“One need not write in a diary what one is to remember forever.”
Sylvia Townsend Warne
February 29, 2016
“It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but how I say it.”
Mae West
February 28, 2016
“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
Richard Matheson
February 27, 2016
“Humour very often cuts the knot of serious questions more trenchantly and successfully than severity.”
Horace
February 26, 2016
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
Jean Genet
February 25, 2016
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
February 24, 2016
“It's lovely loving, isn't it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
Sheila Hancock
February 23, 2016
“We read books to find out who we are. It's an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
February 22, 2016
“You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy head.”
Ray Bradbury
February 21, 2016
“Know or listen to those who know.”
Baltasar Gracian
February 20, 2016
“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in you journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”
George Whitefield
February 19, 2016
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”
Amelia Barr
February 18, 2016
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”
Winston Churchill
February 17, 2016
“Write to please yourself. When you write to please others you end up pleasing no one.”
Benjamin Franklin
February 16, 2016
“A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.”
Albert Einstein
February 15, 2016
“If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So, if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”
Osho
February 14, 2016 (Happy Valentine's Day!)
“Do what you love and love what you do and everything else is detail.”
Martina Navratilova
February 13, 2016
“Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.”
Richard Whately
February 12, 2016
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Teddy Roosevelt
February 11, 2016
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being "normal" is not necessarily a virtue? It sometimes rather denotes a lack of courage.”
Aunt Frances
February 10, 2016
“Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”
Oprah Winfrey
February 9, 2016
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”
Amelia Barr
February 8, 2016
“All men who have turned out worth have had the chief hand in their own education.”
Walter Scott
February 7, 2016
“One must dare to be happy.”
Gertrude Stein
February 6, 2016
“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
Aldo Leopold
February 5, 2016
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
Langston Hughes
February 4, 2016
“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
Kenzaburō Ōe
February 3, 2016
“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
February 2, 2016
“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
Edward Abbey
February 1, 2016
“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
Ismail Kadare
January 31, 2016
“The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
Frank Miller
January 30, 2016
“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
Muriel Spark
January 29, 2016
“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
Stephen Chbosky
January 28, 2016
“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
Vicki Baum
January 27, 2016
“A good book is an event in my life.”
Stendhal
January 26, 2016
“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
Arthur Miller
January 25, 2016
“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
January 24, 2016
“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
Tami Hoag
January 23, 2016
“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
Patricia Highsmith
January 22, 2016
“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
Henry Austin Dobson
January 21, 2016
“You've got to dance like nobody's watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.”
William W. Purkey
January 20, 2016
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch
January 19, 2016
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein
January 18, 2016
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
January 17, 2016
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
January 16, 2016
“Choose rather to be strong in soul than strong of body.”
Pythagoras
January 15, 2016
“It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.”
Alan Rickman
January 14, 2016 (RIP)
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
Simone de Beauvoir
January 13, 2016
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
Thomas Paine
January 12, 2016
“For where all love is, the speaking is unecessary.”
Diana Gabaldon
January 11, 2016
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
Jorge Luis Borges
January 10, 2016
“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
Nicholson Baker
January 9, 2016
“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
Anzia Yezierska
January 8, 2016
“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
Susan Sontag
January 7, 2016
“To survive, you must tell stories.”
Umberto Eco
January 6, 2016
“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
Harlan Coben
January 5, 2016
“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
André Aciman
January 4, 2016
“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
Michel Onfray
January 3, 2016
“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
Connie Willis
January 2, 2016
“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
Vera Brittain
January 1, 2016 (New Year's!)
“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
Adeline Yen Mah
December 31, 2015 (New Year's Eve!)
“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
George Gissing
December 30, 2015
“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.”
Manuel Puig
December 29, 2015
“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
Sarah Vowell
December 28, 2015
“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
David Sedaris
December 27, 2015
“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
Donna Tartt
December 26, 2015
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
Washington Irving
December 25, 2015 (MERRY CHRISTMAS)
“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.”
Helen Steiner Rice
December 24, 2015 (Christmas Eve!)
“Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.”
Eric Sevareid
December 23, 2015
“No matter how much fall on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.”
Greg Kincaid
December 22, 2015
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box
December 21, 2015
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
Norman Vincent Peale
December 20, 2015
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
Charles M. Schulz
December 19, 2015
“'Mistletoe,' said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it.
'Good thinking,' said Luna seriously. 'It's often infested with nargles.”
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
December 18, 2015
“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
Mary Ellen Chase
December 17, 2015
“'One can never have too many socks,' said Dumbeldore. 'Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
December 16, 2015
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
Burton Hillis
December 15, 2015
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie
December 14, 2015
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”
Agnes M. Pharo
December 13, 2015
“We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.”
Buddy the Elf
December 12, 2015
“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.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
December 11, 2015
“Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.”
Charlotte Carpenter
December 10, 2015
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
December 9, 2015
“I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.”
Irving Berlin
December 8, 2015
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
December 7, 2015
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.”
Andy Rooney
December 6, 2015
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
Peg Bracken
December 5, 2015
“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.”
Gladys Taber
December 4, 2015
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: Loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
Bob Hope
December 3, 2015
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
Marjorie Holmes
December 2, 2015
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home
December 1, 2015
“When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sized and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us is greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
John Green, Looking For Alaska
November 30, 2015
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
November 29, 2015
“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
John Green
November 28, 2015
“There are other people on the internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of "other people" without the body odor and the eye contact.”
Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
November 27, 2015
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
November 26, 2015 (Happy Thanksgiving!)
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King
November 25, 2015
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