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The world was hers for the reading — Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The world was hers for the reading — Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us — Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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We tell ourselves stories in order to live — Joan Didion, The White Album

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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Books are a uniquely portable magic. — Stephen King, A Memoir of the Craft

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion — Dalai Lama

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Quality is not an act, it is a habit

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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny

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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

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Happiness depends upon ourselves

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it

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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth

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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do

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Love is the bridge between you and everything

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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true

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Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy

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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

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