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  • #1
    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

  • #2
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #6
    Constantinos P. Cavafy
    “When you set sail for Ithaca,
    wish for the road to be long,
    full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
    C.P. Cavafy

  • #7
    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    Benjamin Spock

  • #8
    Gabrielle Roy
    “The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
    Gabrielle Roy

  • #9
    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    Anna Quindlen

  • #10
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #12
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #13
    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    Ingmar Bergman

  • #14
    “You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." “Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them.”
    Cameron Dokey, The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “The breaking of so great a thing should make
    A greater crack: the round world
    Should have shook lions into civil streets,
    And citizens to their dens.”
    William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

  • #16
    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #17
    Dav Pilkey
    “God bless the rain, and the storm clouds that bring it.
    God bless the music, and the voices that sing it.
    God bless the ones who sing everything wrong.
    God bless the creatures who do not belong.
    God bless the hearts and the souls who are grieving
    For those who have left, and for those who are leaving.
    God bless each perishing body and mind,
    God bless all creatures remaining behind.
    God bless the dreamers whose dreams have awoken.
    God bless the lovers whose hearts have been broken.
    God bless each soul that is tortured and taunted,
    God bless all creatures alone and unwanted.”
    Dav Pilkey

  • #18
    Bob Newhart
    “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
    Bob Newhart

  • #19
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The mind I love must have wild places.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #20
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #21
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #22
    Norman Rush
    “Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
    Norman Rush

  • #23
    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    Ivan Turgenev

  • #24
    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #25
    “In case we become candles, I want to have a nice pose”
    Roronoa Zoro

  • #26
    “My captain has no business with a chunk of stone like you. Suck it up and just deal with me instead”
    Roronoa Zoro

  • #27
    Clamp
    “Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live!”
    clamp, Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 17

  • #28
    Tite Kubo
    “Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?”
    Tite Kubo

  • #29
    Chinua Achebe
    “The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #30
    “In the last moment of his life, he turned his fading "flame of life" into a huge fire that enveloped the world. I've never laughed more than on that day...!! I've never cried more than on that day... I've never drank more either..!! He was our captain... and he was a magnificent man...!!!”
    Rayleigh



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