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You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. - Author object (550)

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution. - Author object (426)

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. - Author object (421)

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Author object (373)

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Author object (83)

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. - Author object (190)

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Author object (409)

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Author object (124)

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Author object (415)

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons. - Author object (563)

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. - Author object (421)

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Author object (459)

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Author object (124)

The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Author object (5)

We love the things we love for what they are. - Author object (5)

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Author object (432)

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Author object (525)

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. - Author object (204)

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for - Author object (49)

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Author object (49)