Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
-- Cormac McCarthy, The Darkest Part of the Forest
There is a rise after every fall.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
The world of books is the only paradise there is.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
普通的領導者把人們帶往他們想去的地方,偉大的領導者把人們帶往他們不一定想去,但該去的地方。
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
-- 羅莎琳‧卡特,美國前第一夫人
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
-- Walt Whitman, Romeo and Juliet
不要數著日子過,要讓每一天都很有意義。
Don't count the days, make the days count.
-- 穆罕默德·阿里,美國知名拳擊手
A grandmother’s love is selfless all the way to the bones.
-- Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Me Before Them
Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.
-- Auliq-Ice, The Theory of 46 Be's
Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.
-- Sara Shepard, Unbelievable
When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.
-- Stephen Richards, The River of Winged Dreams
No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.
-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Now beggars can be choosers with Cosmic Ordering.
-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
As much as the destination ends the journey, so it is of the dream coming true.
-- Stephen Richards, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
-- Mother Teresa, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
-- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.
-- Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
A quiet conscience makes one strong!
-- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
A man of courage must first conquer himself.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
-- Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves