Joan Bauer Quotes

• My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

  Joan Bauer

  Stupid, Book, Grandma

  Joan Bauer (1999). “Rules of the road”

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• ...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

  Joan Bauer

  Forgiving, Difficult Relationship, Reason

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• I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

  Joan Bauer

  Tough Times, Way, Food Network

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• I'm working hard to have a good life.
  You don't need fancy things to feel good.
  You can hug a puppy.
  You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color.
  You can plant a flower and watch it grow.
  You can decide to trust people, the right people.
  You can decide to start over and let other people start over, too.

  Joan Bauer

  Good Life, Flower, Color

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• Tienes que quererte a ti mismo con todos tus defectos, y tienes que querer al mundo por muy mal que se ponga.

  Joan Bauer

  Love Yourself, Inspiration, World

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.40, Penguin

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• When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

  Joan Bauer

  Dark, Thinking, Circles

  Joan Bauer (2009). “Peeled”, p.158, Penguin

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• Leemos para aprender y crecer, para reír, para motivarnos y para entender cosas a las que nunca hemos estado expuestos. Leemos para encontrar fuerzas que nos ayuden cuando nos sentimos rotos, desanimados o asustados. Leemos para encontrar esperanza. Leemos porque no sólo estamos hechos de piel y huesos, y de una profunda necesidad de chocolate, sino que también estamos hechos de palabras, palabras que describen nuestros pensamientos y lo que se esconde en nuestros corazones.

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  Heart, Broken, Laughing

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• Como siempre decía mi abuela, 'nunca se sabe las bendiciones que vienen del sufrimiento'.

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  Grandmother, Blessing, Suffering

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• A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

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  Heart, Half, Chance

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Squashed”, p.83, Penguin

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• Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.

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  Personas, a veces

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Stand Tall”, p.84, Penguin

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• Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good.

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  Hurt, Powerful, Rip

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• Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.

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  Home, Bigs, Changed

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• when hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible

  Joan Bauer

  Amable, de todo tipo

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.57, Penguin

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• Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.

  Joan Bauer

  Faces, Puppy, Sometimes

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• No sabes por dónde te va a venir una cosa, pero tienes que acogerla con todo tu corazón llegue por donde llegue.

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  Heart, Needs, Way

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• When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.

  Joan Bauer

  Chocolate, Speak, Funny Chocolate

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Backwater”, p.53, Penguin

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• You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.

  Joan Bauer

  Luz

  Joan Bauer (2009). “Peeled”, p.158, Penguin

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• ...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

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  Differences, Way, Faces

  Joan Bauer (1999). “Rules of the road”

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• Cuando las cosas se ponen difíciles, los difíciles se hacen bibliotecarios.

  Joan Bauer

  Reading, Book, Naps

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• Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself

  Joan Bauer

  Mountain, Draws, Deeper

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Backwater”, p.9, Penguin

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• Para enfrentarse a la verdad hay que tener agallas.

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  Staring, Guts, Hard

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.33, Penguin

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• And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.

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  Helping Others, People, Leader

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.116, Penguin

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• Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

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  Librarian, Know How, Knows

  Joan Bauer (2006). “Best Foot Forward”, p.101, Penguin

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• I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.

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  Strong, People, Important

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• El problema del corazón es que puede tener tantos sentimientos opuestos al mismo tiempo. Es algo incoherente: un minuto aprecias algo y al siguiente lo odias.

  Joan Bauer

  Hate, Heart, Opposites

  Joan Bauer (2006). “Best Foot Forward”, p.73, Penguin

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