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A
- A.A. Milne
- A.S. Byatt
- Aaron Cohen
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Aberjhani
- Abhijit Naskar
- Abigail Van Buren
- Abraham Lincoln
- Adam Gidwitz
- Adriana Trigiani
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Agatha Christie
- Alan Cohen
- Alan W. Watts
- Albert Einstein
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Alexander Pope
- Alexandra Bracken
- Alexandre Dumas
- Alexei Maxim Russell
- Alfred Tennyson
- Ali R.A
- Alice B. Toklas
- Alison Croggon
- Allan Lokos
- Allan Rufus
- Allan Wolf
- Amanda Hocking
- Ambrose Bierce
- Amit Ray
- Amor Towles
- Ana Monnar
- Anasazi Foundation
- Anaïs Nin
- Andrew Boyd
- Andrew Davidson
- André Breton
- André Brink
- André Gide
- Andy Andrews
- Andy Rooney
- Anita Johnston
- Ann Herendeen
- Ann Patchett
- Ann Rinaldi
- Anna Gould
- Anne Bradstreet
- Anne Sexton
- Anonymous
- Anthon St. Maarten
- Anthony de Mello
- Anthony Horowitz
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Anton Chekhov
- Archilochos
- Aristophanes
- Aristotle
- Arrigo Boito
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Ashley Rice
- Askhari Johnson Hodari
- Audrey Farrell
- Audrey Niffenegger
B
- Baltasar Gracián
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Baruch Spinoza
- Becca Fitzpatrick
- bell hooks
- Ben Carson
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Benjamin E. Mays
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Hoff
- Benny Bellamacina
- Bertrand Russell
- Beth Johnson
- Betty Smith
- Bill Moyers
- Bill W.
- Black Elk
- Blaise Pascal
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Marley
- Bram Stoker
- Brandi L. Bates
- Brandon Sanderson
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Brian Andreas
- Brian Rathbone
- Brian Tracy
- Bruce Lee
C
- C. JoyBell C.
- C.G. Jung
- C.S. Lewis
- Caitlyn Siehl
- Calvin Coolidge
- Cambria Hebert
- Cameron Dane
- Candace Bushnell
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sandburg
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Carole Wilkinson
- Carolyn Forché
- Carolyn Mackler
- Carson McCullers
- Cassandra Clare
- Catherynne M. Valente
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles M. Schulz
- Charles Yu
- Charlotte Brontë
- Chidi Okonkwo
- Chief Joseph
- Chris A. Jackson
- Christian D. Larson
- Christine de Pizan
- Christopher C. Starr
- Christopher Healy
- Christopher Hitchens
- Christopher Moore
- Christopher Paolini
- Chuck Klosterman
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Chögyam Trungpa
- Claudia Gray
- Clive Barker
- Coco Chanel
- Colette
- Colin Bateman
- Colin Firth
- Confucius
- Cornelia Funke
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
- Craig Ferguson
- CrimethInc.
- Criss Jami
- Curtis Tyrone Jones
D
- D.H. Lawrence
- Dahveed
- Dalai Lama XIV
- Dale Carnegie
- Dan Millman
- Daniel Keyes
- Danielle Jordan
- Dannye Williamsen
- Dante Alighieri
- Daphne Delacroix
- Dave Matthews Band
- David A. Smith
- David Byrne
- David Eddings
- David Foster Wallace
- David Leonhardt
- David Mitchell
- David Nicholls
- David Norris
- David Starr Jordan
- Deb Caletti
- Deborah Reber
- Debra E. Johnson
- Dee Marie
- Deepak Chopra
- Dejan Stojanovic
- Denis Healey
- Derek Padula
- Desmond Tutu
- Destiny Booze
- Diana Gabaldon
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Diane Duane
- Dick Francis
- Dion Boucicault
- Donita K. Paul
- Donna Woolfolk Cross
- Doris Lessing
- Dorothy Parker
- Dr. Seuss
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
E
- E.A. Bucchianeri
- E.E. Cummings
- E.L. James
- E.L. Konigsburg
- E.M. Forster
- Earl Nightingale
- Eckhart Tolle
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edith Wharton
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Edward Abbey
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Edward P. Jones
- Elbert Hubbard
- Eleanor Brown
- Eleanor Catton
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elie Wiesel
- Elinor Glyn
- Elise Broach
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Elizabeth Goudge
- Elizabeth I
- Ellen Bass
- Ellen Goodman
- Emily Bronte
- Emily Dickinson
- Epicurus
- Erasmus
- Eric Micha’el Leventhal
- Eric T. Benoit
- Erich Fromm
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Erich Segal
- Ernest Hemingway
- Esther Hicks
- Euripides
- Evanescence
F
G
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Galileo Galilei
- Garth Stein
- Gary L. Francione
- Gautama Buddha
- Gayle Forman
- Genieve Dawkins
- George Burns
- George Carlin
- George Eliot
- George Gordon Byron
- George Jones
- George R.R. Martin
- George Sand
- George Saunders
- George Sheehan
- George Washington
- Georgia O’Keeffe
- Gerald Morris
- Gertrude Stein
- Gillian Anderson
- Gillian Flynn
- Giorge Leedy
- Glen Cook
- Glenway Wescott
- Gloria Naylor
- Goldie Hawn
- Gordon B. Hinckley
- Graham Greene
- Greg Behrendt
- Greg Hamerton
- Guru Nanak
H
- H. Rider Haggard
- H.L. Mencken
- Hailey Edwards
- Haim Shapira
- Hamza Yusuf
- Hannah Hart
- Harold S. Kushner
- Harper Lee
- Harriet Evans
- Harry Truman
- Haruki Murakami
- Haruo Shirane
- Helen Hayes
- Helen Rowland
- Helen Simonson
- Henri J.M. Nouwen
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry James
- Henry Rollins
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Herman Melville
- Hermann Hesse
- Hippolyte Taine
- Hiro Mashima
- Hlovate
- Holly Black
- Homer
- Honoré de Balzac
- Horace
- Hugh of Saint-Victor
- Hugh Walpole
- Hunter S. Thompson
I
J
- J. Sterling
- J.D. Salinger
- J.D. Stroube
- J.K. Rowling
- J.L. Carr
- J.M. Barrie
- J.R. Ward
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Jack Kornfield
- Jack Tempchin
- Jacob Bronowski
- Jaeda DeWalt
- Jalaluddin Rumi
- James Baldwin
- James Caan
- Jamie McGuire
- Jane Austen
- Jasper Fforde
- Jay Asher
- Jayleigh Cape
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jeanette Winterson
- Jeaniene Frost
- Jefferson Smith
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Jenny Han
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Jess C. Scott
- Jim Butcher
- Jim Morrison
- Jimi Hendrix
- Joan Borysenko
- Joan Crawford
- Jodi Picoult
- Joe Abercrombie
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Berryman
- John Brunner
- John Connolly
- John Crowley
- John Dewey
- John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
- John F. Kennedy
- John Flanagan
- John Geddes
- John Gierach
- John Green
- John Keats
- John Lennon
- John Milton
- John O’Donohue
- John Paul II
- John Piper
- John Russell
- John Scalzi
- John Steinbeck
- John Stuart Mill
- John Updike
- John Witherspoon
- Johnny Depp
- Jon Katz
- Jon Krakauer
- Jonas Salk
- Jonathan Cainer
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Jonathan Tropper
- Josef kvorecký
- Joseph Bruchac
- Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Conrad
- Joshua Caleb
- Joss Whedon
- José N. Harris
- Joyce Meyer
- Juan Mascara
- Judy Gold
- Jules Verne
- Julio Cortázar
K
- K.M. Johnson
- Kabir
- Kahlil Gibran
- Karen Blixen
- Karen Hackel
- Karen Marie Moning
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Karl R. Popper
- Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
- Kate Horsley
- Kate Mosse
- Katharine Hepburn
- Kathleen Tessaro
- Katja Millay
- Kay Redfield Jamison
- Kelli Jae Baeli
- Kent Haruf
- Kentetsu Takamori
- Kevin Brooks
- Kevin J. Anderson
- Khaled Hosseini
- Kiera Cass
- Kim Gruenenfelder
- Kris Kristofferson
- Kristen Ashley
- Kristin Cashore
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Käthe Kollwitz
L
- L. Quick
- L.J. Smith
- L.M. Montgomery
- Lady Gaga
- Lailah Gifty Akita
- Lama Surya Das
- Lang Leav
- Langston Hughes
- Lao Tzu
- Laura Esquivel
- Laura Munson
- Laurell K. Hamilton
- Lauren Conrad
- Lauren Oliver
- Lemony Snicket
- Leo Babauta
- Leo Buscaglia
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Libba Bray
- Lincoln Patz
- Lionel Barrymore
- Lisa Kleypas
- Lisa Schroeder
- Lish McBride
- Lloyd Alexander
- Louis de Bernières
- Louisa May Alcott
- Louise Erdrich
- Louise Penny
- Luanne Rice
- Ludwig Börne
- Luis Marques
- Lynsay Sands
M
- M.M. Kaye
- Madeleine de Souvré
- Madeleine L’Engle
- Maggie Stiefvater
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Malinda Lo
- Marcel Proust
- Marcia Angell
- Marcus Aurelius
- Marcus Porcius Cato
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Drabble
- Margaret Maron
- Margaret Thatcher
- Margery Williams Bianco
- Marie Lu
- Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Vos Savant
- Mario Andretti
- Mario Benedetti
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Marissa Meyer
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
- Mark Carwardine
- Mark Twain
- Markus Zusak
- Marshall McLuhan
- Martha Gellhorn
- Martin Amis
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mary E. Pearson
- Mary Norton
- Mary Oliver
- Mary Stewart
- Matsuo Bash?
- Matthew Goldfinger
- Matthew J. Kirby
- Matthew Kelly
- Maurice Switzer
- Maya Angelou
- Megan McCafferty
- Melissa Marr
- Michael Anderson
- Michael Bassey Johnson
- Michael Crichton
- Michael Levine
- Michael Scott
- Michel de Montaigne
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Mikhail Naimy
- Milan Kundera
- Milton Berle
- Mitch Albom
- Mitch Lucker
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Moira Young
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Mother Teresa
- Munia Khan
N
- Nalini Singh
- Nancy B. Brewer
- Napoleon Hill
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Natsuki Takaya
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Neil Gaiman
- Nelson Algren
- Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
- Nicholas Sparks
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Nicole Krauss
- Nikki Rowe
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Noah Benshea
- Nora Ephron
- Norman Vincent Peale
O
P
- P.C. Cast
- Pablo
- Pablo Neruda
- Pablo Picasso
- Patañjali
- Patrick Jones
- Patrick Rothfuss
- Paul Auster
- Paul Brunton
- Paul F. Davis
- Paul McCartney
- Paulo Coelho
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Peggy Vincent
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Petar Dunov
- Peter Parker
- Philip Pullman
- Phyllis McGinley
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Piet Hein
- Pittacus Lore
- Plato
- Plutarch
- Pope Gregory I
- Ptah-Hotep
R
- R. Alan Woods
- R.L. LaFevers
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rachel Cohn
- Rachel Naomi Remen
- Raheel Farooq
- Rainbow Rowell
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ralph Alfred Habas
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ray Bradbury
- Raymond E. Feist
- Richard Siken
- Richard Wagner
- Richelle Mead
- Rick Riordan
- Rick Ross
- Rita Mae Brown
- Roald Dahl
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Robert Burns
- Robert Fanney
- Robert Frost
- Robert Fulghum
- Robert Jordan
- Robertson Davies
- Robin Jones Gunn
- Robin Macnaughton
- Robin Williams
- Roger Kettle
- Romain Rolland
- Roopleen
- Roy Bennett
- Roy T. Bennett
- Rumiko Takahashi
S
- Sacha Guitry
- Sallust
- Sam Keen
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sanober Khan
- Santosh Kalwar
- Sara Teasdale
- Sarah Addison Allen
- Sarah Cross
- Sarah Dessen
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Sarah Rees Brennan
- Saul Bellow
- Scott Adams
- Scott Lynch
- Scott Westerfeld
- Seja Majeed
- Seneca
- Sengcan
- Shaky Kane
- Shana Abe
- Shannon Hale
- Shannon L. Alder
- Sharon Salzberg
- Shel Silverstein
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Shimon Peres
- Shirley Jackson
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Simone Elkeles
- Siobhan Vivian
- Socrates
- Sogyal Rinpoche
- Solon
- Sonia Rumzi
- Sophie Kinsella
- Sophocles
- Sorin Cerin
- Sri Chinmoy
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- Stefan Molyneux
- Stephanie Lennox
- Stephanie Perkins
- Stephen Chbosky
- Stephen Colbert
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen Levine
- Stephenie Meyer
- Steve Maraboli
- Stewart O’Nan
- Stieg Larsson
- Susan Meissner
- Susan Polis Schutz
- Susan Sontag
- Susane Colasanti
- Suzanne Collins
- Suzanne Crowley
- Suzy Kassem
- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
- Sylvia Plath
- Søren Kierkegaard
T
- T.F. Hodge
- T.S. Eliot
- Tad Williams
- Tadahiko Nagao
- Tahereh Mafi
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Tammara Webber
- Tariq Ramadan
- Taylor Swift
- Ted Hughes
- Terence McKenna
- Terry Pratchett
- Tessa Dare
- Thales
- The RZA
- Theodore Roethke
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Thomas Fuller
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas M. Sterner
- Thomas McGuane
- Thomas Merton
- Thomas More
- Thomas Paine
- Tina Carreiro
- Toba Beta
- Tom Bodett
- Tom Robbins
- Toni Morrison
- Tony Vigorito
- Traci Harding
- Traci L. Slatton
- Trent Zelazny
- Trisha Yearwood
- Truman Capote
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche
V
W
- W. Somerset Maugham
- W.H. Auden
- Wallace Stegner
- Walt Whitman
- Walter Lippmann
- Walter Mosley
- Walter Wangerin Jr.
- Washington Irving
- Wayne W. Dyer
- Wendell Berry
- Wendy Mass
- Whitney Otto
- William Beckford
- William Blake
- William Goldman
- William James
- William Jordan
- William Saroyan
- William Shakespeare
- William W. Purkey
- William Wordsworth
- Winston S. Churchill
- Wu Cheng’en