Here are a few  quotes that I have recently come across:

"A well composed book is a magic carpet ride on which we are 

wafted to a world that we cannot enter any other way."

-Caroline Gordon

"Where I was born & how I have lived is unimportant.

It is what I have done with where I have been that 

should be of interest."

-Georgia O'Keeffe

"The world leans on us. When we sag, 

the world seems to droop."

-Eric Hoffer

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for 

living. Satisfaction is death."

-George Bernard Shaw

"We see things not as they are, but as we are."

-H. M. Tomlinson