Quote of the Day

"Do the crazy thing. The hard-to-imagine-but-somehow-you-did thing. The bring-you-to-your-knees thing. The no-one-would-ever-do-it-that-way thing. The safety-net-would-not-even-matter thing. The it-could-kill-you-but-not-trying-is-another-kind-of-death thing. The thing on your heart. Do it, and let them gasp right before they call it a thing of wonder."
- Ciona Rouse

Quote of the Day

"You can't monopolize the bathroom crying space."
- Jess, New Girl 01.11

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"The reality is you will grieve forever.  You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.  You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered.  You will be whole again but you will never be the same again.  Nor should you be the same nor should you want to."
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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"Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity.  Don't be afraid to aim high."
- Pope Francis

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"[He] was a connoisseur of malingering. He enjoyed killing time the way some people savor aged gouda."
- Avi Steinberg, Running the Books

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"Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim."
- Tyler Knott Gregson

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"Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators."
- Stephen Fry

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"When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life."
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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"Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing … We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us."
- Pope Francis

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"Archivists and librarians were opposite personas.  True librarians are unsentimental.  They're pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books.  Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful."
- Avi Steinberg, Running the Books

Quote of the Day

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
- Stephen King

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"Peace is a precious gift, which must be promoted and protected...Never has the use of violence brought peace in its wake.  War begets war, violence begets violence."
- Pope Francis (via)

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"If I believe there's a Savior, is the proof in me?
Is He alive and breathing?
Is He what they'll remember?
Is He what they see, when they look at me?"
- Britt Nicole, "Look Like Love"

Quote of the Day

"May today there be peace within. 
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. 
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. 
May you use those gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love.
It is there for each and every one of us."
- St. Therese of Lisieux

Quote of the Day

"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

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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh

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"From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel books' heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside."
- Rita Dove

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"In case you ever foolishly forget; I am never not thinking of you."
- Virginia Woolf

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“I also work here [in the library] because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited to anything else. As a breed, we're the ultimate generalists. I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live.”
― Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian

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"I'm bringing chocolate in case I get grumpy and my taser in case things get boring."
- ae

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"I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun.  It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds."
- John Green

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"That's enough out of you, MUCK MOUTH."
- Dr. Desmond Forest Oates, Get Over It

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"Every reader finds himself.  The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
- Marcel Proust