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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

“A book is like the best friend you can imagine. Once you read a book, it stays with you forever.”
― Jessica McCann, All Different Kinds of Free

“I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.”
― William Butler Yeats

“It is not by idle chance that I have come here.”
― Holly Weiss, Crestmont

“Only by examining our personal biases can we grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we grow as people.”
― Jen Knox, Chaos Magic

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“My daddy always said being brave wasn’t not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.”
― Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
― John Wesley

“I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through.....listen to this music”
― hafiz

“God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.”
― Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees �� these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Don’t walk in front of me�� I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me�� I may not lead
Walk beside me�� just be my friend”
― Albert Camus