“Books are uniquely portable magic.”

Jana / 16 / German

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You're off to great places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.

Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You'll Go

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I might think I can't take it anymore, that I can't go on any more, but one way or another I get past that.

Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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We're desperate for more joy, but at the same time we can't tolerate the vulnerability.

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

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There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

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You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us. We give because giving has changed us. We give because giving could have changed us.”

— Alberto Ríos, When Giving Is All We Have

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“I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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Zwischen Immer und Nie. Between always and never.

André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

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We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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Life is not fair, but we can choose to be fair humans even if life or other humans choose to be unfair to us.

Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

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Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us. We give because giving has changed us. We give because giving could have changed us.

Alberto Ríos, When Giving Is All We Have

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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace

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For I myself am best when least in company.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button