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    “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” ~ Anne Lamott

      “When it comes time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau

        “Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.” ~ Aisha Tyler

          “Each of us can look back upon someone who made a great difference in our lives, someone whose wisdom or simple acts of caring made an impression upon us. In all likelihood it was someone who sought no recognition for their deed other than the joy of knowing that, by their hand, another’s life had been made better.” ~ Stephen M. Wolf

            “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

                                    “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

                                      “You should never read just for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick “hard books.” Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god’s sake, don’t let me ever hear you say, “I can’t read fiction. I only have time for the truth.” Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of “literature”? That means fiction, too, stupid.” ~ John Waters

                                        “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” ~ Joyce Carol Oates

                                          “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”

                                          Philip Pullman