You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
-- Jason Mraz, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
I hope every night is stunning where you are. In my words, you are a legend.
-- Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.
-- Jennifer Melzer, The Goblin Market
問題從來不是如何想出嶄新、創新點子,而是如何剔除舊思惟。
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.
-- 狄伊.哈克,企業家
Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.
-- Compton Gage, Maybe Someday
Our enemies are nearer the truth in their opinion of us than we are ourselves.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!
-- Shannon L. Alder, Evasion
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
-- Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.
-- Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget who you are.
-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.
-- Carl Sandburg, The Bookshop Book
Self education is the key to self liberation.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-- Karen Maezen Miller, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch
The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.
-- Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
聰明與否的評估標準,在於改變的能力。
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
-- 亞伯特.愛因斯坦,相對論之父
Curiosity is the pleasure of seeking
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charl
It’s like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.
-- Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
-- Socrates, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations