Quote of the Day

“If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.”
- Graceanne A. Decandido

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“By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.”
- E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

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"Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. See: every successful writer except Judy Blume."
- Mindy Kahling

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“A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.”
- Mo Willems

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“You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.”
- Emlyn Chand, Honey the Hero

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"Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize."
- Libba Bray

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"Am I supposed to do something
important?
It doesn't seem enough
to merely take up space
on this planet
in this country
in this state
in this town
in this family."
- Sharon Creech, Heartbeat

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
- C.S. Lewis

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"You know when you're holding a hot cup of coffee and you realize you're going to sneeze? That's how I feel."
- Ella, Imagine Me & You

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"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking. If all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed and why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."
- Sister Joan Chittister

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"I always felt that my father wanted me to use my intellect to help build my faith.  I was never told to simply accept anything on the face of it, and my constant questions were always engaged.  Because my father never made reason and faith enemies of each other, my religious conviction was strengthened."
- Condoleezza Rice, Extraordinary, Ordinary People

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"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.  The time will pass anyway."
- Earl Nightingale

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"Expect nothing.  Live frugally on surprise."
- Alice Walker

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"Go to the kitchen and get some apples and peanut butter. Guys, we've gotten entire pieces of legislation through Congress on apples and peanut butter."
- Josh, The West Wing 3.01

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"Be silly, be honest, be kind..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"[Jesus] said that a glass of water given to a beggar was given to Him.  He made heaven hinge on the way we act toward Him in His disguise of commonplace, frail, ordinary humanity."
- Dorothy Day

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"You can't lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse."
- John Peers

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"Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'"
- Angela Davis

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"you can go, go
you can go slow
leave that ship behind"
- The Owls, "Bury Your Mind"

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"He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone."
- James Joyce

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"You're not in hell. If you're too hot, take off your sweater."
- Kitty, That '70s Show 4.04

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"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
- Mark Twain

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"Faith assures us of the things we expect, and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see."
- Hebrews 11:1

Quote of the Day

"Seek heavenly guidance one day at a time. Life by the yard is hard; by the inch — it's a cinch. Each of us can be true for just one day — and then one more, and then one more after that, until we've lived a lifetime guided by the Spirit, a lifetime close to the Lord, a lifetime of good deeds and righteousness."
- Thomas S. Monson

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"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."
- Margaret Cho

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“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.”
- Megan McCafferty

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"I'm single, I'm homeless, and I'm pretty sure I just soiled myself."
- J.D., Scrubs 5.3

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"A disconsolate lass did opine,
'I'll need three simple things to feel fine:
Some uplifting quotations
To dispel these vexations,
Plus a cat and a gallon of wine.'"
- Anne Emond, "A Gloomy Limerick"

Quote of the Day

"Regrets collect like old friends
Here to relive your darkest moments"
- Florence + the Machine, "Shake It Out"

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"However late you think you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you have made or talents you think you don't have, or however far from home and family and God you feel you have traveled, I testify that you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.  It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's atonement shines."
- Jeffrey R. Holland

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"In the fields of observation, chance favors the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur