Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
-- Albert Einstein, Poems from the Heart
Morality is the weakness of the mind.
-- Arthur Rimbaud, The River of Winged Dreams
I am haunted by humans.
-- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.
-- Lana Del Rey, Champion
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
-- Glenn Beck, Redemption
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
不要因渴望得不到的而錯過已經擁有的;要知道,現在已經擁有的,也曾是你渴望的。
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
-- 伊比克魯斯,古希臘哲學家
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
-- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
最無用之事,莫過於以有效的方式把根本不該做的事做好。
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
-- 彼得.杜拉克,管理學之父
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
-- Richard P. Denney, Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko
No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.
-- Flannery O'Connor, Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out
-- Oliver James, City of Fallen Angels
人生沒有所謂的失敗,失敗只是人生企圖讓我們換個方向。
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
-- 歐普拉.溫芙蕾,美國電視脫口秀主持人、製片人、投資家、慈善家
Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.
-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
-- George Carlin, Horton Hatches the Egg
Do not spend all your strength to make money.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Proverbs of Solomon
Learning is the only game worth playing in life.
-- Debasish Mridha, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
-- Dag Hammarskjöld, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.
-- Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband