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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

J. M. BarrieSpeech

To die would be an awfully big adventure.

J. M. BarriePeter Pan

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

J. M. BarriePeter Pan

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?

L. M. MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

L. M. MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

L. M. MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Beatrix PotterLetter (1938)

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix PotterThe Journal of Beatrix Potter

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

Beatrix PotterAttributed

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Louisa May AlcottLittle Women (1868)

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May AlcottLittle Women (1868)

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May AlcottAttributed

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Henry David ThoreauWalden

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David ThoreauWalden

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David ThoreauWalden

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo EmersonAttributed

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo EmersonSociety and Solitude (1870)

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance (attributed)

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

Emily DickinsonTell all the truth but tell it slant (c. 1868)

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