Top Ten Tuesday: Inspirational/Thought-Provoking Book Quotes

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl in which we create bookish lists about everything from our favorite characters to love triangles and everything in between!

This Week's Theme: Inspirational/Thought-Provoking Book Quotes!

For today's post, I compiled ten different inspirational or thought provoking quotes that I've found in books throughout the years. They're in no particular order and not ranked my importance -- they're all near and dear to my heart! So without further ado, let's get into it.

1. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” 

-Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

2. “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” 

― Dr. Seuss (A true classic and one of my favorites!)

3. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” 

― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

4. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” 

― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

5. “When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.” 

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

6. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.” 

― Gilda Radner

7.  “Tell me, what is it you plan to do  with your one wild and precious life?” 

― Mary Oliver

8. “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.” 

― Neil Gaiman

9. “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” 

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

10. “Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.” 

― Kate Greenaway

So those are ten inspirational and thought-provoking book quotes that I've found over the years! What are yours? Comment down below and let me know!