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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.


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THOMAS KEMPIS In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

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THOMAS à KEMPIS Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the co...
CALISTA FLOCKHART If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why w...
MITCH ALBOM By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
JEFFREY FRY The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere ... I mean everywhere...
ERIC NEWMAN I have no rest, but in a nook, with the Book.
THOMAS À KEMPIS This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book ...
ROALD DAHL We have a lot of speed back there and a lot of talent. But through that speed and talent we've got t...
DEE WEBB We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred...
WALTER SALLES I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that...
FRANZ KAFKA Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome...
AUGUST WILSON ...sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You aske...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I love this book. I'm a mother myself. I have three boys, and I really sympathize with Sarah, who ha...
KAREN ROBARDS Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY I just take a book everywhere with me. It's a habit.
RORY GILMORE It's so much more friendly with two.
, POOH'S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go ...
, POOH'S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
, POOH'S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Brains first and then Hard Work.
, POOH'S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't...
, POOH'S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
, POOH'S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE I don't see myself as an icon. I was very moved by the response to my book; it brought me into relat...
CAROL GILLIGAN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. ...
HELEN MIRREN I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the co...
GEORGE SAUNDERS For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how bea...
DONALD MILLER From The Corner To The Corner Office - It's Not Just A Book, It's A Lifestyle!
JAMES A. BARLOW - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. An...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my per...
PAIGE VANZANT One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ...
GARY F EVANS... I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my br...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.
TOMI LAHREN I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because ...
CHRISTINA MILIAN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN We have not turned the corner. I found the situation much more dangerous and worrisome than I expect...
JUAN MENDEZ I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of ...
EAVAN BOLAND I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and...
VANITY I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything els...
NEIL GAIMAN My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps...
ANJA RUBIK When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ...
SARAH DESSEN I walked into my own book, seeking peace.
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside t...
ANAïS NIN I just came out ready to shoot. I just found myself open a lot and I just came in knowing that I nee...
MEL THOMAS Ethanol is a little harder to vaporize in the wintertime, so by increasing the gasoline a little bit...
RICK EGGEBRECHT At your next book club meeting, picture me sitting quietly in the corner, taking notes on your prefe...
G.R. READER This way, somebody can have the keepsake or whatever, but then also it helps out wrestling and hopef...
RULON GARDNER This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
DODIE SMITH I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can.........from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not...
BOB DYLAN I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English bu...
GEORGE CRUMB If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to sp...
BAZ LUHRMANN While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER Sometimes..I didn't know what I sought until I've found it.
TOBA BETA All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I looked someone tried to tell me what ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to the...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I wen...
ANTHONY KIEDIS Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS I'm glad that the book has been recognized by people that I work with, but I'm a little disappointed...
JEFF CHANG I had to come to terms with the fact that I wouldn’t have peace with myself until I found a way to...
MICHAEL BARBARULO I'm not going to put the Australian Open in jeopardy so we'll try to fix it. I'll take tomorrow off ...
XAVIER MALISSE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first,...
MAGNUS CARLSEN I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too...
JOHN COREY WHALEY I found myself in the South. I got picked up by somebody and made a joke about how dangerous it is t...
JEFF BIGGERS Sometimes..
I didn't know what I sought until I've found it.
TOBA BETA Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do...
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ARTHUR O'SHAUNESSEY I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
ARTHUR KOESTLER We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER No one can transcend their own individuality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
ARTHUR KOESTLER The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect...
ARTHUR KOESTLER The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have sa...
ARTHUR QUINN Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
ARTHUR QUINN Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ...
ARTHUR QUINN The word of man is the most durable of all material.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it.
ARTHUR SELDON Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...
ARTHUR KOESTLER True creativity often starts where language ends.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh...
ARTHUR PHELPS A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe...
ARTHUR MILLER It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER