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Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

February 1954 The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. It is a materialization, an incarnation of his inner world. Then he hopes to attract others into it. He hopes to impose his particular vision and share it with others. And when the second stage is not reached, the brave artist continues nevertheless. The few moments of communion with the world are worth the pain, for it is a world for others, an inheritance for others, a gift to others, in the end. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
We also write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely. We write as the birds sing, as the primitives dance their rituals. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Source: Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Source: I and Thou

Source: Tender Is the Night

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (2004), p. 16

Source: Match Me If You Can

Remarks from the witness stand, to a court in Mount Clemens, Michigan (July 1919), as quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts (1948) by Edmund Fuller, p. 162

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

As quoted in USA Today (5 March 1988)
Variant:
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
As quoted in Diversity : Leaders Not Labels (2006) by Stedman Graham, p. 224

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Half Empty

Source: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

Source: Guardian Angel

1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Source: The World As I See It
Context: How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving....

Journal entry (1938), quoted in the Introduction to a 1994 edition of Of Mice and Men by Susan Shillinglaw, p. vii
Context: In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.

Source: Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies

Source: The Rescue

Source: The Sound and the Fury

Source: Holy the Firm (1977)

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

Source: Fury

Source: From the Corner of His Eye

Source: Middlesex

Pt. X, Hiawatha's Wooing, st. 1.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

To My People (July 4, 1973)
Source: Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Shadow of the Giant

Source: Dear John

Source: The Given Day

Source: The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Journal entry (November 1951) as published in the Kerouac ROMnibus http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/resguide/resources/j100.html

Source: Little Women

Source: Letters and Papers from Prison

Source: Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading

Source: Bitter Blood

Source: The Sweetest Thing

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Source: Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual Pathology

Source: The Godfather

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Was not Martin Luther an extremist: "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God." And John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience." And Abraham Lincoln: "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." And Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..." So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime — the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Source: Why We Broke Up

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

Book I, Ch. 25
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays

Source: Meditations

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: White Noise (1984)

Source: Secrets of a Summer Night

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The English Patient

Source: Born of Ice

Source: Blood and Chocolate

Source: The Feminine Mystique

Source: All of Us: The Collected Poems

Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
Source: Borders of Infinity

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Source: The Wasp Factory

Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Source: Secret Vampire

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Source: Styxx

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Source: House Rules

Source: The Odyssey