I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin

-- Miguel Reynolds Brandao, Understanding Perversion and Violence: Mervin Glasser's Contributions to Psychoanalysis

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

-- William Shakespeare, As You Like It

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

-- Mae West

The past is never where you think you left it.

-- Katherine Anne Porter, The Fountainhead

If you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

-- Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

Books are the shells of wisdom, which are split open for the pearls of character.

-- Bozorgmehr, Min kamp 5

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

-- Baltasar Gracián, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

College is not important, knowledge is

-- Abhishek Mishra, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Reading leads to good character development.

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

In my quest to search for knowledge, I know God, the source of knowledge.

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

只要是腦中能夠想像，並且相信的，就一定能實現。

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

-- 拿破侖．希爾，美國勵志大師

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

-- Compton Gage, The Silence Between the Sighs

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

-- Janvier Chouteu-Chando, The Girl on the Trail

You are created invisible spiritually, and invisibility is largely a matter of patience.

-- Compton Gage, The Ecstasy of Loving God

When you praise God in pain, it is preparing you for provision.

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

我們最大的弱點在於放棄，再多嘗試一次，永遠是最接近成功的方法。

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

-- 湯馬士．愛迪生，美國發明家

I knew I was waiting for someone I didn't understand.

-- Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories