All my pains has always increased my sense of purpose.

-- Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

-- Leonardo da Vinci, Strenuous Life

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

-- Harold Bloom, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Cosmic Ordering cultivates prosperity daily.

-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

-- Maya Angelou, Sundays at Tiffany's

You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

-- Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated

What will survive of us is love. - from A Writer

-- Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

-- Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

We are only victims if we allow ourselves to be.

-- McCartney Green, Dandelions Never Die

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.

-- Lauren Hammond, Shades of Grey

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.

-- Compton Gage, Potentiality Enhancement Programs

There's just one advice for an aspiring writer; write.

-- Scifurz, Me Before Them

I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.

-- Walt Disney Company, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

-- Kahlil Gibran, Visions of the Prophet

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust

-- John Webster, The Sound and the Fury

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

-- Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

擁有不多的人並不貧窮，真正貧窮的是貪得無厭的人。

-- 西班牙諺語，

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

-- John Cage, The Art of Racing in the Rain

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

-- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free