A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation… A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on, you are enriched threefold.

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"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."

- Henry Miller

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"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love."

- Henry Miller

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"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."

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"Of course you don’t die. Nobody dies. Death doesn’t exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world."

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"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."

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- Mother Teresa

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