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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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Life with its rules, its obligations, its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.

- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.

- Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procastination is the thief of time.

- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

- Stephen King, The Stand

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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

- Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

- Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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Ever’body’s askin’ that. ‘What we comin’ to?’ Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way.

- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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We accept the love we think we deserve.

- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them...Happiness doesn't lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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