2008 Books and Quotes

[unsilenceddream]

This post pertains to last year, and I had thought of posting it yesterday, but that was not to be. First, we have my

Books Read in 2008

1. Carrie, Stephen King
2. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackye
3. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
4. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
5. The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander
6. The Darkest Evening of the Year, Dean Koontz
7. Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult
8. Gone with the Wind, Margret Mitchell
9. The River, Gary Paulsen
10. There's Something About Christmas, Debbie Macomber
11. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
12. Dear John, Nicholas Sparks
13. Circle of Friends, Maeve Binchy
14. 1408, Stephen King
15. Return to Promise, Debbie Macomber
16. Lisey's Story, Stephen King
17. Crashing Through, Robert Kurson
18. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
19. National Velvit, Eaid Bagnold
20. The Hobbit, J. R. Tolkien
21. The Venveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams (I actually reread this)
22. Night, Elie Wiesel
23. Keturah And Lord Death, Martine Leavitt
24. PS I Love You, Cecilia Ahern
25. Extreme Measures, Michael Palmer
26. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
27. The Canning Season, Polly Horvath
28. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz

Next, we have

Random Quotations
2008:

“Sometimes you're afraid to become a couple because you are afraid of losing what you already have with that person. But life is all about risks and it requires you to jump. Don't be a person who has to look back and wonder what they would have, or could have had. No one waits forever.”
-(Anonymous)

"No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it."
-Richard Feynman

"Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
-Arthur C. Clark

"Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."
-Corita Kent

"Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today."
-Meredith Willson

"In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness."
-Ann Faraday

"When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life."
-Anna Quindlen

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."
-David Beckham

"Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that
certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him.
Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over
rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything --
anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous
than the world we are living in. "
-Sam Harris, author (1967- )

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."
-George Eliot

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."
-Phillip C. McGraw

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
-Wayne Dyer

"Many people miss life because they are waiting for something great. It only happens through small things: eating your breakfast, walking,,, taking a bath, talking to a friend etc. Small things are what life is
made of. When you collect one pebble, it is a pebble. When pebbles are together, suddenly they are diamonds. That's the miracle of life."
-Osho, One pebble at a time

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula
for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
-Herbert Bayard Swope

"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence.
If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the
year."
-Horace Mann

"If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from
waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time."
-Dorothy Gilman

"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks."
-Steve Pavlina

"True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together."
-Hugh Prather

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting
of a little water."
-Christopher Morley,
writer (1890-1957)

"My friend is one... who take me for what I am."
-Henry David Thoreau

"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing."
-Catherine de Hueck

"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed."
-Peter McWilliams

"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
-John Updike

"Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with
the deepest suspicion."
- Mirabeau

"We can only learn to love by loving."
- Iris Murdoch

"Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend."
- Saadi

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
- Anais Nin

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
- Jeanne Moreau

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
- G. K. Chesterton

"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
- Burnadette Devlin

"You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed."
- Elizabeth Aston

"Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.""
- Anna Lappe

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
- Walter Anderson

"Live always in the best company when you read."
- Sydney Smith

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart; I'll stay there forever.”
- A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
-Harrison Ford

"To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship."
- Thomas Moore

"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."
- Mary Pettibone Poole

"Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never."
- Marguerite de Valois

"It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."
- Vida D. Scudder

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
- Jules Renard

"If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?"
- Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl

"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
- Sir Francis Bacon

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Civilization is the encouragement of differences."
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."
- Jane Austen

The calm man rarely makes mistakes.
When thousands are failing, he succeeds.
You must be calm to be successful.
Those who do not observe the sabbath by feeling this divine peace
develop great moodiness.
Take time to meditate and be silent.
Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace
will shine upon you.
Take time to be calm...
-- Paramahansa Yogananda

"You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically,then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last."
- Vernon Howard

"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."
- Charlize Theron


"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life."
- Evelyn Underhill

"Trust is the first step to love."
- Munshi Premchand,
novelist and poet (1880-1936)

2009:

"You don't read a book to appease the author; you read a book because you want to. And it is my strongly held opinion that a book becomes richer and more vibrant when we read it closely and think hard about it."
- John Green

"appreciate every breath, every morning, every hug, every smile. never wake up and wish you hadn't. one day you won't. the human body is the most intricate miracle. dont abuse it. find goodness in others. rid those in your life who taint it...your life is too short to waste on them. once a day, step back and realize the gift you have been given. stress out, relieve it, and let it go. cry, laugh, yell, scream, smile, hug, kiss, and serve a purpose."
- Anonymous

"There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough."
- Nancy Spain

I didn't get as many books read in 2008 as I would have liked to, but I hope to change that in 2009. I'm going to reread all seven Harry Potter books, starting very soon, in preparation for the sixth movie coming out in July.

I'll post a regular update shortly. For those of you who read even some of the above, it's appreciated. I'm just happy to share. I think those two lists will become a yearly tradition from now on. Take care, all, and Happy New Year! More soon.

Comments

[lsu-tiger-81.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this... I really enjoyed reading it! Where did you find the Debbie Macomber books? I don't recall seeing them on Book Share or the NLS site...

[unsilenceddream.livejournal.com]

Hey, no problem. I read those books in hardcopy Braille from NLS. I would think they'd be on Web Braille, too. Maybe not, though.

[westerndreams.livejournal.com]

"You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically,then mentally. Go your own way, quietly,
undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last."
- Vernon Howard


That, I will.

Thank you so much for these.

*hugs* (ip)

Take care, and happy New Year!

[unsilenceddream.livejournal.com]

No problem, I'm glad to share.
Glad you enjoyed.
*hugs back* (ip)
Happy New Year to you, too!

[blind-funk.livejournal.com]

Wow! And I thought I read a lot. You sure do. I bet you really enjoyed Gone With the Wind. I know I did years ago, and it was a great book. But frankly my dear, I don't give a, lol. Just kidding. Happy new year to you

[unsilenceddream.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yes, I did enjoy Gone with the Wind very much.
I love to read, what can I say?
Take care, and thanks for your comment.

[passionflower55.livejournal.com]

i love quotes! and i stole a few

[unsilenceddream.livejournal.com]

No problem, I'm glad to share.