Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

-- Oscar Wilde, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza A fool: A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

-- Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

Happiness isn’t something you work toward, the same way misery isn’t something you work toward.

-- Brent Jones, The Fifteenth of June

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib, Jo's Boys

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Light in the Heart

Wake up and smell the wealth with Cosmic Ordering.

-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide

You have a life; make a success of it.

-- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Headhunters

Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.

-- Ray Bradbury, The Wednesday Wars

... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

-- José Saramago, The Cave

It´s never too late to save time.

-- Alin Sav, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

-- Winston S. Churchill, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.

-- sunny-drunk, Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

-- Tessa Dare, A Lady of Persuasion

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

-- Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

Loneliness is your only companion.

-- Compton Gage, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Listen to the arts of kids, their hands when tied have wings.

-- Ymatruz, The Coffee Cries Foul

my boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.

-- amanda lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

-- Socrates, Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success