168/365 - Horrible Sanity (Edgar Allan Poe)

“I became insane, 

with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

  - Edgar Allan Poe

167/365 - Society gathers Wisdom (Isaac Asimov)

“The saddest aspect of life right now

 is that science gathers knowledge faster

 than society gathers wisdom.”

  - Isaac Asimov

166/365 - A Wise person avoids it (Albert Einstein)

“A clever person solves a problem.

 A wise person avoids it.”

  - Albert Einstein

165/365 - To Destroy a Culture (Ray Bradbury)

“You don't have to burn books

 to destroy a culture.

 Just get people to stop reading them.”

  - Ray Bradbury

164/365 - Dare to be ourselves (May Sarton)

“We have to dare to be ourselves, 

however frightening 

or strange

that self may prove to be.”
 

- May Sarton

163/365 - The World (Mark Twain)

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. 

The world owes you nothing.

 It was here first.”
 

- Mark Twain

162/365 - As children do (Gustave Flaubert)

“Do not read,

 as children do, 

to amuse yourself,

 or like the ambitious,

 for the purpose of instruction. 

No, read in order to live.”

  - Gustave Flaubert

161/365 - Those who don't believe in magic (Roald Dahl)

“Those who don't believe in magic

 will never find it.”

- Roald Dahl

160/365 - Just Listen (Sarah Dessen)

“Don't think or judge,

 just listen.”

- Sarah Dessen

(Just Listen)

159/365 - Taking the first step (Martin Luther King Jr.)

“Faith is taking the first step

 even when you can't see the whole staircase.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

158/365 - Another World (C.S. Lewis)

“If we find ourselves with a desire

 that nothing in this world can satisfy,

 the most probable explanation

 is that we were made for another world.”

- C.S. Lewis

157/365 - Considered Insane (George Carlin)

“Those who dance 

are considered insane

 by those who cannot hear the music.”

  - George Carlin

156/365 - A Harder Battle (Plato)

“Be kind, 

for everyone you meet 

is fighting a harder battle.”

  - Plato

155/365 - Opportunity in every difficulty (Winston Churchill)

“A pessimist 

sees the difficulty in every opportunity; 

an optimist

 sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

  - Winston Churchill

154/365 - The lives I'm not living (Jonathan Safran Foer)

“Sometimes I can hear my bones

straining under the weight 

of all the lives I'm not living.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer

(Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

153/365 - Everybody is a genius (Albert Einstein)

“Everybody is a genius.

 But if you judge a fish

by its ability to climb a tree,

 it will live its whole life

 believing that it is stupid.”

- Albert Einstein

152/365 - The Direction of his dreams (Henry David Thoreau)

“I learned this, at least, 

by my experiment:

 that if one advances confidently 

in the direction of his dreams, 

and endeavors to live the life 

which he has imagined, 

he will meet with a success unexpected

 in common hours.”

  - Henry David Thoreau

(Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)

151/365 - It's own shame (Oscar Wilde)

“The books that the world calls immoral

 are books that show the world its own shame.”
 

- Oscar Wilde

150/365 - For what they are (Robert Frost)

“We love the things we love 

for what they are.”

  - Robert Frost

149/365 - Overdressed or overeducated (Oscar Wilde)

“You can never be overdressed 

or overeducated.”

  - Oscar Wilde

148/365 - A Great Book (William Styron)

“A great book

 should leave you with many experiences,

 and slightly exhausted at the end. 

You live several lives while reading.”

  - William Styron

(Conversations with William Styron)

147/365 - Inside Us (J.K. Rowling)

“We've all got both light and dark inside us.

 What matters is the part we choose to act on.

 That's who we really are.”

  - J.K. Rowling

(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

146/365 - The Pure and Simple Truth (Oscar Wilde)

“The pure and simple truth

 is rarely pure and never simple.”

  - Oscar Wilde

145/365 - It's Actions that matter (Nicholas Sparks)

“You're going to come across people in your life 

who will say all the right words 

at all the right times. 

But in the end,

 it's always their actions 

you should judge them by. 

It's actions, not words,

 that matter.”

  - Nicholas Sparks

(The Rescue)

144/365 - What everyone else is thinking (Haruki Murakami)

“If you only read the books 

that everyone else is reading, 

you can only think 

what everyone else is thinking.”

  - Haruki Murakami

(Norwegian Wood)

143/365 - To be Vulnerable (C.S. Lewis)

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. 

Love anything and your heart will be wrung

and possibly broken. 

If you want to make sure of keeping it intact

 you must give it to no one, 

not even an animal. 

Wrap it carefully round with hobbies

 and little luxuries;

 avoid all entanglements. 

Lock it up safe in the casket 

or coffin of your selfishness.

 But in that casket, 

safe, dark, motionless, airless, 

it will change.

 It will not be broken; 

it will become unbreakable,

 impenetrable, irredeemable.

 To love is to be vulnerable.”

  - C.S. Lewis

(The Four Loves)

142/365 - Anything worth knowing (Neil Gaiman)

“I've been making a list

 of the things they don't teach you at school. 

They don't teach you how to love somebody. 

They don't teach you how to be famous. 

They don't teach you how to be rich 

or how to be poor. 

They don't teach you how to walk away 

from someone you don't love any longer. 

They don't teach you how to know

 what's going on in someone else's mind. 

They don't teach you what to say 

to someone who's dying.

 They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

- Neil Gaiman

(The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

141/365 - Around the World (Mark Twain)

“A lie can travel half way around the world 

while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

- Mark Twain