Great books are powerful so to celebrate the magic of words, we have rounded up these literary pearls of wisdom for you to enjoy.
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”
The Goldfinch
“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
– Donna Tartt
Wild
“It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.”
– Cheryl Strayed
Dracula
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
- Bram Stroker
My Antonia
“At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
- Willa Cather
Infinite Jest
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
- David Foster Wallace
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only someone remembers to turn on the light.”
– J.K. Rowling
Beloved
“You are your best thing.”
– Toni Morrison
Les Miserables
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
- Victor Hugo
East Of Eden
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
- John Steinbeck
The Dairy Of A Young Girl
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
- Anne Frank
Oh, The Places You'll Go
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
- Dr Seuss
Brida
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
- Paulo Coelho
A Room Of One's Own
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
– Virginia Woolf
The Alchemist
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realise his dream.”
– Paulo Coelho
Peter Pan
“Just think happy thoughts and you’ll fly.”
– J.M. Barrie
Jane Eyre
"I would rather be happy than dignified."
– Charlotte Brontë
The Little Prince
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Stand
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
– Stephen King
Of Human Bondage
“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”
- W. Somerset Maugham
De Profundis
“With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde
Atlas Shrugged
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserve and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real... it is possible... it's yours."
- Ayn Rand
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
- J.K Rowling
Just Kids
“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith
The Cost of Living
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
- Arundhati Roy
A Song Of Ice And Fire
"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour, then it can never be used to hurt you."
- George R.R. Martin
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
- Stephen Chbosky
On The Road
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
- Jack Kerouac
Worstward Ho
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
- Samuel Beckett
The Ambassadors
"Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life."
- Henry James
The Secret
“There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer. ”
― Rhonda Byrne
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