Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
-- Mark Twain, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
-- Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
-- Charles Bukowski, Post Office
I think your vision gets better as you get older.
-- Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light
My lips part, wanting to tell him a story, wanting to kiss him more than I want to breathe
-- Cristin Harber, Only for Him
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
-- Sarah Dessen, The Lightning Thief
It is better to be foolish wise than wise foolish.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Lord of the Flies: Fitness for Writers
It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.
-- Sanhita Baruah, Human Detritus
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
-- Richard Wisniewski, Principia Humanitas
Was he trying to rescue her? She fought not to roll her eyes. Men.
-- Pamela Clare, First Strike
Education is meant to increase the confidence of a person to face the world.
-- Sachin Kodagali, Santosh Avvannavar, Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.
-- Cecelia Ahern, A Very Yuppy Wedding
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
-- Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…
-- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
不是時間不夠,缺乏方向才是問題之所在。我們每個人一天都有24個小時。
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
-- 吉格.金克拉,美國著名勵志作家
CHALLENGES MAKE US RISE TO THE OCASSION.
-- Auliq-Ice, Wealth of Words
Do one thing every day that scares you.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.
-- Darnell Lamont Walker, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
-- Mos Def, A Gathering of Dreams