If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

-- Juan Ramón Jiménez, Memoirs of a Geisha

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

-- Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

-- Joseph Conrad, Cinta di Dalam Gelas

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

-- The Prolific Penman, Attack of the Fiend

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Mend My Broken Heart

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

-- W.E.B. Du Bois, Invisible Monsters

Failures make character, not success.

-- Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational.

-- Debasish Mridha, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

-- Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

Hope lies in what action we take.

-- Auliq-Ice, Yama’s Lieutenant and the Stone Witch

But even so, I wondered--how well do we really ever know someone?

-- Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her.

-- Michael DiMarco, Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them

Too much study leads to worn out,

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.

-- Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

-- William Shakespeare, Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

-- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

-- John Burdett, Bangkok Haunts

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

-- Marilyn Vos Savant, Contengan Jalanan

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

-- Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Books make the soul float.

-- Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones