I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
-- Michel de Montaigne, The Merchant of Venice
The path of genius is free, and its own
-- William Hazlitt, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
-- Salvador Dalí, The Uncommon Reader
Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.
-- Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Your hope shall be your life.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
-- Michel de Montaigne, Ten Perspectives on Milton
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
-- Stephen Richards, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
With a book he was regardless of time.
-- Jane Austen, The Book Thief
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
如果别人朝你扔石頭,不要扔回去,留著做你建樓高的基石吧。
If they throw stones at you, don't throw back, use them to build your own foundation instead.
-- 佚名,
Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections.
-- Daphne Delacroix, The Bhagavad Gita
如果你沒有更好的方法,那這個爛方法就是最好的方法。
-- 柯文哲,第15任台北市長
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
-- Christopher Paolini, Eragon
I’m writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging
-- C.J. Roberts, Epilogue
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
-- André Gide, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: The Book
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Sportswriter
Spiritual maturity is a natural part of sentient evolution
-- Jonathan R. Banks, A New World: The Science of Higher Dimensional Computation and Metaphysics
Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.
-- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
才華是上帝給予的,要謙虛。 名氣是他人給予的,要感恩。 自滿是自己給自己的,一定要小心。
Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
-- 約翰.伍登,美國著名籃球教練