I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
-- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
-- Brian Tracy, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
-- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.
-- Chloe Thurlow, The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomena
You're a rose, the perfect flower. I'm a carnation, just a cheaper substitute.
-- Wendi Cassel, When You Don't Have a Choice
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.
-- Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
We gain knowledge from education; we gain wisdom from knowledge and experience.
-- Debasish Mridha, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.
-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
-- Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
-- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights....
-- Donny Deutsch, Donny Deutsch's Big Idea: How To Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, From The AHA Moment To
You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.
Education is the process of selling someone on books.
-- Douglas Wilson, The Glass Castle
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
-- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
-- Anne Rice, Boy Princess, Volume 2
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
-- Ian McEwan, Atonement
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
-- Vera Nazarian, The Fellowship of the Ring
為成就大事,我們不只需要行動,還要有理想;除了做計畫,還要有信念。
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
-- 阿納托爾 ‧ 法郎士,法國作家
...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
-- Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith