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Life is a song-sing it.Life is a game-play it.Life is a challenge-meet it.Life is a dream-realize it.Life is a sacrifice-offer it.Life is a love-enjoy it.-Sai Baba

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

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

Quote of the month

" He who learns but does not think,is lost!He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger does not learn is in great danger"

- Confucius

45+ Famous Book Quotes of al Time

 "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."  

— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present."

— K.E. Kruse (365 Best Inspirational Quotes: Daily Motivation For Your Best Year Ever)

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all"

— Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism)

"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."

Stephenie Meyer (Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1))

"Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands."

Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

Maya Angelou (Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now)

 "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1))

"Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always"

— John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

"If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything."

Joseph Goldstein (Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening)

"The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Don Quixote)

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols)

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

John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."

Charles Bukowski (Barfly)

"This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness."

Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)

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

J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2))

"You're off to Great Places!

Today is your day!

Your mountain is waiting,

So... get on your way!"

— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

— Jess C. Scott (The Intern)

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

— Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)

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

— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1))

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"He's like a drug for you, Bella."

— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3))

"We read to know we're not alone."

— William Nicholson (Shadowlands)

"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."

— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

"[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

 [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"

— Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying."

— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.."

— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'

'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him."

— George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1))

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx)

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

— Oscar Wilde (De Profundis)

"It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Idiot)

"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson"

— Penny Reid (Beauty and the Mustache (Knitting in the City, #4; Winston Brothers, #0))

"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"

"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you."

— Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."

— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

— Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

— Maurice Switzer (Mrs. Goose, Her Book)

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

— Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (Maya Angelou)"

— Aleatha Romig (Consequences (Consequences, #1))

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)