Top Ten Tuesday: Most Inspiring Book Quotes

Hosted by The Broke and Bookish

• “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”  – Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan (If you can see the small arrow and dot toward the bottom right, that’s Earth in a photo taken from Cassini.Humbling and amazing)
• “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – As You Like It, William Shakespeare
• “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.” – Collected Poems, Edgar Allen Poe (This is a weird one, I know…but it’s a personal thing. I fight daily to make it so that mental illness does not define who I am, and many of the best things I’ve ever done have been a product of me trying to overcome and rise about them.)

• “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling 
• “What would come, would come…and you would have to meet it, when it did.” – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
• “Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don’t shove where a pat would be sufficient.” – Elantris, Brandon Sanderson

• “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” – A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin (If only I’d seent his quote years ago when I needed it the most)
• Pretty much the entirety of Golden by Jessi Kirby