There is peace even in the storm

-- Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

-- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

-- Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

Her silence should be feared more than her words.

-- Piper Payne, How To Get Away With Marriage: Guide To Make it Work After "I Do"

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering.

-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

-- Chad Sugg, Let Me be a Woman

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

-- Alessandra Torre, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

-- Jonathan Franzen, Strong Motion

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

-- Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

-- Osho, Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega Volume 10

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

-- James Patterson, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.

-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

They alone live, who live for others.

-- Swami Vivekananda, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

知人者智，自知者明；勝人者有力，自勝者強。

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

-- 老子，中國春秋時代思想家

Be yourself there is no one better

-- Selena Gómez, The Papery Onions

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

-- Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

-- Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

-- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha