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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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