Quote of the Day

"Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.  Warm southern wind, blow softly here.  Green sod above, lie light, lie light.  Good night, dear Heart, good night, good night."
- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

"Dear Library,
I have lost your book.  I can not find it anywhere.  I will come to the library and turn myself in.  Please do not harm my mother and father."
- Charles Schulz, Peanuts

Quote of the Day

"Come let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
- Chaim Potok

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“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
    
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Quote of the Day

"I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do."
- Brian Andreas, "Dark Garden"

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"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
- Zora Neale Hurston

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“Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!  It will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.  It will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society, and leaving the company of creatures of its own society to be with you.”
- Théophile Gautier

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"And if you share (With your heart)
Yeah, you give (With your heart)
What you share with the world is what it keeps of you"
- Noah and the Whale, "Give a Little Love"

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"I commune with my heart in the night."
- Psalm 77

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"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself.  They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused."
- Alan Cohen

Quote of the Day

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
- Ernest Hemingway

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"I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me."
- Sharon Creech

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"It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is.  Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things."
- Lemony Snicket

Quote of the Day

"Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type LOL. I type LQTM: Laughing Quietly To Myself. It's more honest."
- Demetri Martin

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"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
- Roald Dahl

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"A party without cake is just a meeting."
- Julia Child

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"'You wanna -- I dunno -- get coffee or something sometime?'
He smiled. 'Not coffee. But yes.'
'Not Coffee it is, then.'
'Yes, Not Coffee.'"
- David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories

Quote of the Day

"We got sunlight on the sand,
We got moonlight on the sea,
We got mangoes and bananas
You can pick right off the tree,
We got volleyball and ping-pong
And a lot of dandy games!
What ain't we got?
We ain't got dames!"
- Rodgers & Hammerstein, "There is Nothin' Like a Dame" (via)

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"When left to my own devices, I tend to lecture [in class]...because I am a pedantic asshole."
- T.H.

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"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.  Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so."
- Noam Chomsky

Quote of the Day

"You obviously haven't been at the library during finals week.  I've had to break up fights.  And the sobbing, God, the SOBBING."
- Marten, Questionable Content no. 2366

Quote of the Day

"Waiting on this for a while now
Paying my dues to the dirt
I’ve been waiting to smile,
Been holding it in for a while"
- Imagine Dragons, "On Top of the World"

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"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."
- Anais Nin

Quote of the Day

"Wow, we're just blowing through nap time, aren't we?"
- Buster Bluth, Arrested Development 1.03

Quote of the Day

"I am enough.  I am full of sparkle and compassion.  I genuinely want to make the world a better place.  I love hard.  I practice kindness.  I'm not afraid of the truth.  I am loyal, adventurous, supportive, and surprising.  I am a woman.  I am enough.  I make mistakes, but I own them and learn from them.  Sometimes I make a lot of mistakes."
- Molly Mahar

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"She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.” 

- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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"Advocacy is a call to conversion, a recognition of the sin -- the broken relationship that dehumanizes others -- and an act of penance by changing the sinful social structures."
- Russell Testa (via)

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"And I need love
Not some sentimental prison
I need God
Not the political church
I need fire
To melt the frozen sea inside me
I need love"
- Sam Phillips, "I Need Love"

Quote of the Day

"Education is not merely a good idea -- it's a commandment.  We are to learn ‘of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad.'"
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Quote of the Day

"Always remember the great power behind you.  Be strong in the Lord and His mighty power."
- Ephesians 6:10