The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

-- Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

-- Charlotte Brontë, Emma

There's just so much to live for.

-- Alex George, Setting Free the Kites

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

-- Brian Tracy, The Dead-Tossed Waves

Loneliness is your only companion.

-- Compton Gage, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

-- Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.

-- Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

-- John Taylor Gatto, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

-- Joseph Brodsky, The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties

Create your own miracles; do what you think you cannot do.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Glass Castle

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

Even when the number of seeds is filled in you: for he had weighed the world in the balance.

-- Compton Gage, The Silence Between the Sighs

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

-- Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

當你真心渴望某件事，整個宇宙都會聯合起來幫助你完成。

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it

-- 保羅‧科爾賀，巴西著名作家

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

-- Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

-- Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

-- Susan Faludi, Notebooks 1935-1942

除非你有勇氣到達看不到對岸的地方，否則你永遠不可能跨越大洋。

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

-- 克里斯多福．哥倫布，海洋探險家

Every honest prayer is saved in God´s cloud.

-- Alin Sav, Freedom from the Known

時間 = 生命，因此，浪費時間就等於浪費生命，掌控時間就等於掌控生命。

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

-- 亞倫．拉凱恩，時間管理專家