The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

-- Josef Pieper, Happiness and Contemplation

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

-- Jane Austen, Emma

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.

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

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Farewell to Arms

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stoner

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

-- John Grisham, The Rainmaker

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

-- John Steinbeck, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.

-- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

-- Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Love transforms pleasure into pain.

-- Al-Busiri, The Burda of al-Busiri: The Poem of the Cloak

走到你所能見到的最遠處，當你到了那兒，你便能看得更遠。

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

-- J.P. 摩根，美國銀行家

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

-- Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

Love is our basement. Trust is our strength.

-- Alin Sav, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

如果我有 8 小時可以砍 1 棵樹，我會花 6 小時把斧頭磨利。

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.

-- 亞伯拉罕．林肯，前美國總統

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

-- Thales, The Darkest Minds

Soon, all the children were chanting it. “No school! No school!

-- Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

It's better to hate someone in the beginning rather than end up hating someone after loving.

-- Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

I hope that I’m a good man ... it would be enough.

-- James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

-- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird