Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

-- Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know

Many search for God in dramatic events, but he is more often veiled in simplicity and humility.

-- Kristelle Angelli, Agnes' Gift: A heartwarming story about the power of the Rosary

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

-- Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

-- John Lennon, Torment

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

-- Martin Luther King Jr., The Little Prince

Don’t give up in the middle of the journey.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

All that you seek is hidden in book.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Can a man's life be complete without his Maker?

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, In the Heart of the Country

順境時，朋友結識我們；逆境時，我們才瞭解朋友。

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

-- 約翰‧柯林斯，英國文學評論家

What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by. Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.

-- William Shakespeare, Richard III

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

-- Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

-- Courtney Love, The Power of One

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

-- Amy Carmichael, Leaving Paradise

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

-- Virginia Woolf, The Light in the Heart

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

-- William Shakespeare, Lords and Ladies

Be determined to seek wisdom.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Gospel of Relaxation

If you want to brighten up a person's day. Give them a rainbow.

-- Anthony T. Hincks, Nothing Serious

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

-- Paulo Coelho, City of Glass

Reach for the Stars!

-- Arsoleen Woolcock, Prison of Paradise