"Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them."

-- Simone Elkeles

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.”
“Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.”
“Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.”
“The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.”
“A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.”

Source : Bradford Angier (1998). “How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter, and Self-Preservation That Makes Starvation in the Wilderness Next to Impossible”, p.245, Simon and Schuster
“When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.”

Source : Source: www.afb.org
“Want a sugar cube?-Â Finnick Odair,Â ”
“The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.”

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