“ The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. Anne Tyler
“ The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. John F. Kennedy
“ You’d better tell me what you know, toad, said Tiffany. Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.Another world is colliding with this one, said the toad. There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s hap… Terry Pratchett
“ You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. J.K. Rowling
“ You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you b… Brian Tracy
“ You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. Sheryl Sandberg
“ You couldn't be more wrong, I said. You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is frag… John Green
“ You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. Oscar Wilde
“ Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night; too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; bu… Charlotte Bronte
“ When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our ef… Max Lucado
“ To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when eve… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and yearning over the doorsill of his house, the tabl… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. Orson Scott Card
“ There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon. Jimmy Buffett
“ There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling bac… Peter Ackroyd
“ The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constant h… Sue Monk Kidd
