The most important decision you will ever make is to be in a good mood. ~ Voltaire
The Old Man And The Sea By Ernest Hemingway
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In this tale of inward struggle and personal triumph, an old fisherman reaches within the depths of himself to fight the good fight and wrestle with the fish of his dreams alone on the ocean.
The Final Forming of Character
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. ~ Anne Frank
An Open Broken Heart
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken. ~ Alice Walker
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
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But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?
An Adventure Worth Telling
It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
A Touch That Never Hurts
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens
They Have Made Me
I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten: even so, they have made me. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Lifelong Romance
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
The Axe To Break The Ice
A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. What we need are book that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more that we love ourselves, that makes us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ~ Franz Kafka