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  • #1
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #4
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #5
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #6
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #7
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Le sentiment que l'homme supporte le plus difficilement est la pitié, surtout quand il la mérite. La haine est un tonique, elle fait vivre, elle inspire la vengeance; mais la pitié tue, elle affaiblit encore notre faiblesse.”
    Honoré de Balzac, La Peau De Chagrin

  • #8
    عبد الله بن المقفع
    “سُئل ابن المقفّع "من أدّبك"؟ فقال: "نفسي. إذا رأيت من غيري حسنا آتيه، وإن رأيت قبيحا أبَيْته".”
    عبدالله بن المقفع, الأدب الصغير والأدب الكبير

  • #9
    Ahmed Salama
    “فعلمت أن الحزن جمال، والفرح جمال، وكل شيء خلقه الله هو جمال فوقه جمال.”
    Ahmed Salama, محطة الرمل

  • #10
    Sarah J. Maas
    “She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

  • #11
    Alexander Pope
    “Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
    Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

  • #12
    Paulo Coelho
    “Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
    Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

  • #14
    “Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am”
    Christopher Poindexter

  • #15
    “Not only did
    I love her,
    but I could tell
    the universe loved
    her, too.
    More than others.
    She was different.
    After all; I would
    be a fool not to
    notice the way the
    sunshine played with
    her hair.”
    Christopher Poindexter

  • #16
    “She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.”
    Christopher Poindexter

  • #17
    Victor Hugo
    “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #18
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
    life.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

  • #19
    Stephenie Meyer
    “Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.”
    Stephenie Meyer , The Host

  • #20
    Machado de Assis
    “He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
    Machado de Assis, Iaiá Garcia

  • #21
    Erich Segal
    “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
    Erich Segal

  • #22
    Edmond Rostand
    “A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
    Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

  • #23
    Colleen Hoover
    “Find a balance between head and heart.”
    Colleen Hoover, Slammed

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
    Jelaluddin Rumi , The Essential Rumi

  • #25
    Rohinton Mistry
    “Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
    Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

  • #26
    Maggie Stiefvater
    Want and need were words that got eaten smaller and smaller: Freedom, autonomy, a perennial bank balance, a stainless-steel condo in a dustless city, a silky black car, to make out with Blue, eight hours of sleep, a cell phone, a bed, to kiss Blue just once, a blister-less heel, bacon for breakfast, to hold Blue's hand, one hour of sleep, toilet paper, deodorant, a soda, a minute to close his eyes.

    What do you want, Adam?

    To feel awake when my eyes are open.
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

  • #27
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Curse of Lono

  • #28
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #29
    Jodi Picoult
    “In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.”
    Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

  • #30
    Agatha Christie
    “A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

    -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)
    Agatha Christie, The Hound of Death and Other Stories



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