Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

-- Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

-- E.E. Cummings, Allegiant

A gracious heart, a gentle spirit.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

-- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

It takes many years to lay the solid foundation for final success.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid

Nobody steals books but your friends.

-- Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, In One Era & Out the Other

It is right that one must come so far to see the world as it is meant to be.

-- Compton Gage, Maybe Someday

A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit.

-- Wayne Chirisa, Determination

In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Deschooling Society

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

-- Czesław Miłosz, A Happy Death

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

-- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

I do not have any trust fund, I have always trusted God for all my funds.

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

The force is within you; force yourself.

-- Harrison Ford, ক্রীতদাসের হাসি

Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana.

-- Michelle Marcos, Wickedly Ever After

逆境讓我們遠離眾人的肯定，更容易覺察真正的自己。

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then

-- 約翰．伍登，美國著名籃球教練

The small flower is as total as the sun.

-- Osho, Book of Wisdom

Your life is a book. Everyone could read it.

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

Prayer is the power of being.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Corpkshetra

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

-- Winston S. Churchill, The Book Thief