“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” ~ Socrates
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ” ~ Buddha
“No one can outperform his/her self image.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” ~ Dolly Parton
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” ~ Maya Angelou
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ~ James Baldwin
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ~ Stephen King
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” ~ Malcolm X
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ~ Oscar Wilde
