"As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you." - C.S. Lewis

"I’ve been giving this much thought, and I’ve concluded that the greatest blessing in life is whatever genuine love, friendship, and affection we receive. The emphasis is always on the word ‘genuine’." - Wayne Gerard Trotman

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." - Thomas Carlyle

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further." - Thomas Carlyle

"To see the law by Christ fulfill’d, And hear his pardoning voice, Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice." - William Cowper

"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views." - William Congreve

"Think before you speak, think twice before you shout, think three times before you go mad." - William Saroyan

"Hope is holding a creative tension between what is, and what could and should be, and each day doing something to narrow the distance between the two." - Parker Palmer

"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude." - Simone Weil

"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself." - C.S. Lewis

"Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen." - Brene Brown

"The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same." - Steve Maraboli

"A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody." - Thomas Paine

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." - Ernest Hemingway

"Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU." - Mandy Hale

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson

"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert." - Andrew Carnegie [Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of 2,509 libraries worldwide between 1883 and 1929, with 1,689 in the United States.]

"Reason is still our signature tool for coping with a complex reality, yet it is easily subverted by overconfidence, cognitive closure, and biases." - Azar Gat

"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth." - Joseph Joubert