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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
- Ralph Ellison

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- Michel de Montaigne

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.
- Irwin Shaw

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?
- Neil Jordan

We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.
- George Moore

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Tom Bodett

Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anaïs Nin

There's always some further action to take.
- Pierre Boulle

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
- Amy Tan

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
- Toni Morrison

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
- Emily Dickinson