Wandering in Books

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

- Mark Twain

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

- Lucille Ball

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

- Buddha

Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

- Buddha

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Lao Tzu

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

- Charles Darwin

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

- Mark Twain

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

- Mark Twain

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

- Mark Twain

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

- Charles M. Schulz

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

So many books so little time.

- Frank Zappa

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure; I make mistakes, I’m out of control and at times, hard to handle but if you can’t handle me at my worst you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

- Marilyn Monroe

Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

-Marilyn Monroe

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

- From Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

It’s better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you’re not.
- Marilyn Monroe

I don’t mind making jokes but I don’t want to like one.

- Marilyn Monroe

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

- G. K. Chesterton

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

- Groucho Marx

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
- Madeleine L’Engle

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

- Oscar Wilde

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Live,Laugh,Love.

- Proverb

Where words fail, music speaks.

- Hans Christian Anderson

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

- J. K. Rowling

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

- George Eliot

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

- Maya Angelou

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

I’ll never let you go, if you promise not to fade away.

- Anonymous

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

- Paul Sweeney

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

- From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

- Tom Robbins

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

- George Weinberg

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

- From As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Classic - a book which people praise and don’t read.

- Mark Twain

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

- George Santayana

Friendship isn’t a big thing; it’s a million little things.

- Proverb

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

- H. L. Mencken

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be one hand to say so.

-Eric Bentley

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

- Oscar Wilde

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

- Dr. Suess

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

- Oscar Wilde

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

- Dr. Suess

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

- Albert Camus

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

- Albert Einstein

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- From All’s Well That End’s Well by William Shakespeare

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

- Thomas A. Edison

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

- Malcolm X

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

- C. S. Lewis

Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.

- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Page 26)

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there.

- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Page 211)

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.

- C. JoyBell C.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

- Gilda Radner

The earth has music for those who listen.

- William Shakespeare

It takes ten times as long to put your self back together as it does to fall apart.

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay (Page 156)

When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they are invincible’ with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing.

- John Green, Looking for Alaska (Pg. 220)

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Pg. 85)

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

- Andy Warhol

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay (Page 379)

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.

- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (Page 311)

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

- Elbert Hubbard

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

- Mark Twain

Pain demands to be felt.

- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (Page 57)

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

- William Styron

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (Page 313)

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

- A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night: A Novel

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.

- Judy Blume

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

- Joseph Brodsky

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

- Friedrich Nietsche

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

- Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

- Dr. Suess

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

- William Shakespeare

[It’s] not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read and all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

- Judy Blume

It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

- Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn By Living

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

- Charles Dickens