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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

 – Charles Bukowski

 

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

 – Marilyn Monroe
 

“If there is a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet,

then you must write it.”

 – Toni Morrison

 

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

 – Helen Keller

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

 – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”

 – Paul Terry
 

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to end, it's about learning do dance in the rain.”

– Vivian Greene

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”

– Audrey Hepburn

 

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein

 

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

– aus "Coraline" von Neil Gaiman

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”

– Audrey Hepburn

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
– Mark Twain

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” 

 – Gustave Flaubert

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

– J. K. Rowling

 

“Alle Würden dieser Welt wiegen einen guten Freund nicht auf.” 

– Voltaire

 

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

– C.S. Lewis

 

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

– Albert Camus

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God,

which is why we call it the present.”

– Bill Keane

“Es gibt zwei Arten sein Leben zu leben. Entweder so, als wäre nichts ein Wunder, oder so, als wäre alles eines.” 

– Albert Einstein

“Die Welt ist ein Buch. Wer nie reist, sieht nur eine Seite davon.” 

– Aurelius Augustinus

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
–  William W. Purkey

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the distance."

(aus The Road Not Taken von Robert Frost)

"Es gibt bereits alle guten Vorsätze, wir brauchen sie nur noch anzuwenden."

–  Blaise Pascal

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. [...]

The man who never reads lives only one."

– George R. R. Martin

 

"Es geht uns mit Büchern wie mit den Menschen. Wir machen zwar viele Bekanntschaften, aber nur wenige erwählen wir zu unseren Freunden."

– Ludwig Feuerbach

"Ein Raum ohne Bücher ist wie ein Körper ohne Seele."
– Cicero

"Bücher lesen heißt wandern gehen in ferne Welte,

aus den Stuben über die Sterne."
– Jean Paul

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

– Dr. Seuss

"Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all."

– Philip Pullmann

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."

– J. K. Rowling

"Ich habe mir das Paradies immer als eine Art Bibliothek vorgestellt."
- Jorge Luis Borges

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau 

 

"Life is a climb - but the view is great."
- Hannah Montana The Movie

"Ein Buch, das man liebt, darf man nicht leihen, sondern muß es besitzen."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Die besten Bücher sind die, von denen jeder Leser meint, er hätte sie

selbst machen können."
- Blaise Pascal

"Gern lesen heißt, die einem im Leben zugeteilten Stunden der Langeweile gegen solche des Entzückens einzutauschen."
- Charles-Louis de Montesquieu

"Kein Lesen ist der Mühe wert, wenn es nicht unterhält."
- William Somerset Maugham

"Unter die größten Entdeckungen, auf die der menschliche Verstand in den neuesten Zeiten gefallen ist, gehört meiner Meinung nach wohl die Kunst, Bücher zu beurteilen, ohne sie gelesen zu haben."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Ein klassisches Werk ist ein Buch, das die Menschen loben, aber nie lesen."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Bücher haben Ehrgefühl. Wenn man sie verleiht, kommen sie nicht mehr zurück."
- Theodor Fontane

"Auch das schlechteste Buch hat seine gute Seite: die letzte."
- John James Osborne