Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Edward Gibbon
We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.
- Edward Gibbon
- Edward Gibbon
Lev Grossman
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
- Lev Grossman
- Lev Grossman
Eric Carle
We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.
- Eric Carle
- Eric Carle
Anita Desai
Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?
- Anita Desai
- Anita Desai
