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Books are medicine. What heals me may not be the right prescription for anyone else.
Sandra Cisneros,
poet, writer
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
The greatest thing you have is your self image, a positive opinion of yourself. You must never let anyone take it from you.
Jaime Escalante,
educator
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
I hope to continue to inspire our nation’s youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.
I’ll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor.
Ellen Ochoa,
astronaut
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for.
Junot Diaz,
writer, educator, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez,
singer-songwriter, musician, activist
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
1579 – James VI of Scotland is celebrated as an adult ruler by a festival in Edinburgh.[1]
A royal entry into Edinburgh marked the coming of age of King James VI of Scotland as an adult ruler on 19 October 1579. The 13-year-old king came to Edinburgh to begin his adult rule, having spent his childhood at Stirling Castle.[1]
1507 – Viglius, Dutch politician (died 1577)
Viglius (October 19, 1507, Swichum – May 5, 1577) was the name taken by Wigle Aytta van Zwichem, a Dutch statesman and jurist, a Frisian by birth.
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Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!
Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.
Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
writer, essayist, journalist
In life as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.,
politician, 26th president of the United States
It’s a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.’
Aldous Huxley,
writer, philosopher
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw,
playwright, critic, activist, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
I had no orders or restrictions on how to ride Secretariat. The riding decisions were mine.
Ron Turcotte,
thoroughbred race horse jockey who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973
1941-2025
An actor is unfortunate if he doesn’t get to spend a lot of time on stage. When you’re on stage, you get to practice every night.
Polly Holliday,
actor
1937-2025
When I was young, I wanted to go everywhere and be everyone, and with this work, I have. I was blonde, I was brunette, I was a princess. … I was everything.
You are not yourself in front of the camera. You can live many lives, instead of one. I think I’ve been lucky.
Claudia Cardinale,
actor
1938-2025
I’m always careful. I check, I double-check, and I re-double-check. Sometimes my mind may wander, but my eyes are always wide open.
William Steig,
writer, illustrator, cartoonist
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
Rene Descartes,
philosopher, scientist, mathematician
It’s true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
Giannina Braschi,
writer, poet
Language will continue to put the world into words.
Annie Ernaux,
writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
John Irving,
writer
It’s important to hear those words: ‘You’re doing great. It’s all going to be OK.’
Lola Tung,
actor
If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.
At least we can still count on self-interest as a predictable factor.
Tom Stoppard,
playwright, screenwriter
Live, work, act. Don’t sit here and brood.
Henrik Ibsen,
playwright
If you feel deeply and know how to express what you feel, you make others feel.
Amy Beach,
composer, pianist
One of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
Annie Proulx,
writer, journalist
FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again … even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost.
Taylor Swift,
singer, songwriter
I don’t think coincidences happen in this life — I think things happen for a reason. We have a choice to listen or not.
Jane Goodall,
primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist
1934-2025
I’ve never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I’ve never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
There have been times between action and cut when I’ve sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven’t been familiar with before.
Terence Stamp,
actor
1938-2025
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
Greg Iles,
writer
1960-2025
Stories become legends. And legends become … whatever they become.
Graham Greene,
actor
1952-2025
I’m interested in that thing that happens where there’s a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better, and that’s the point when people quit. But some don’t.
Robert Redford,
actor, director, producer
1936-2025
What has stayed the same is my desire to express myself. Because in this rapidly changing world, you can be influenced, dragged in one direction or another, and lose your own identity.
Giorgio Armani,
fashion designer
1934-2025
“Rest and be thankful.”
William Wordsworth
“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be.”
Jack Kornfield
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
Eckhart Tolle
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts
“I will not let the bullies and critics of my early life win by joining and agreeing with them.”
Pete Walker
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
Timber Hawkeye
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
Paulo Coelho
“Sometimes you have to let go of the life you planned to make room for the life that’s waiting for you.”
Joseph Campbell
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
“It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.”
Donna Goddard
“The body keeps the score. If the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations, then our first priority is to help people ‘feel’ what their bodies are telling them.”
Bessel van der Kolk
“Being present for your own life is the most radical act of self-compassion you can offer yourself.”
Sylvia Boorstein
“AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it.”
Unknown
“And then I realized that to be seen by others, I first had to be willing to see myself.”
Anonymous
“You can’t heal what you won’t allow yourself to feel.”
Unknown
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