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Quote by Malala Yousafzai

“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”

Author

A Pakistani journalist born on July 12, 1997, in the Swat Valley of northwestern Pakistan. She is known for her advocacy of girls' education and became an international figure after surviving a Taliban shooting incident in 2012. In 2014, she became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate. more

“Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks. Do you know how absolutely exotic it is that you haven’t been corrupted by fashion and pop culture? A month ago I mentioned Ben Stiller, and do you remember how you responded? ‘Who’s that?’ I loved you all over again.”

“What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?”

Ifs Cutting Alive Strings What If Defiance Puppets Strength Of Will

Author:Barry Lyga

“I can't kill someone!" "You hit your brother in the head with a fire extinguisher." "But that was family! And I didn't kill him.”

I Can Fire Brother Your Brother Fire Extinguishers

Book:The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken

Source: The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken

“Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen”

Reality Realms Unseen

Book:Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms, and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart : Translation and Commentary of Imam Mawlud's Matharat Al-Qulub

Source: Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms, and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart : Translation and Commentary of Imam Mawlud's Matharat Al-Qulub

“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”

Feelings Truth Community Justice Awareness Strive Invisible Isolation Daily Life Belonging Typical Loner

Author:Albert Einstein

“As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.”

Humans Human Beings Machines Sacred Conclusion Doomed Collide

Book:Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

“Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.”

Persons Balanced Polite Upbringing Being Polite Good Upbringing

Book:A Memory of Light

Source: A Memory of Light

“To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.”