When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

-- Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.

-- Brian Rathbone, Regent

Exuberance is beauty.

-- William Blake, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

如果不採取行動，擁有知識也毫無意義。

Without action, knowledge is often meaningless.

-- 紹恩．阿克爾，心理學家

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

-- Gabriel García Márquez, The Catcher in the Rye

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

-- Gabriel García Márquez, Ender's Game

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

-- Barbara Kingsolver, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena

And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.

-- Ally Carter, Heist Society

Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.

-- Compton Gage, Principia Humanitas

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

-- George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

-- Simone Elkeles, The Prince

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

-- Hilda van Stockum, The Borrowed House

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

-- William Paul Young, The Shack

There are no crash courses on ‘enlightenment’, you only crash in a course like that!!!!

-- Harrish Sairaman, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

如果安於現狀，生命就會失去應有的熱情。

There is no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

-- 曼德拉，前南非總統、諾貝爾和平獎得主

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property?

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

-- David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

-- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

-- Criss Jami, Killosophy