There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

-- Jim Butcher, Death Masks

Hľadajme spôsob, aby učitelia menej učili a žiaci viac pochopili.

-- Jan Amos Komenský, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

-- Adrienne Rich, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

I am a habitual rule-breaker

-- Mohadesa Najumi, Suicide Notes

Why isn't one taught how to be loved? Why isn't one taught anything?

-- Charles Williams, All Hallows' Eve

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

-- Molière, The Last Lecture

Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.

-- Sharon Stone, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

-- Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

-- Toni Morrison, Clockwork Angel

讓自己開心最好的方法，就是試著讓別人也開心起來！

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

-- 馬克．吐溫，美國文學作家

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

-- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

-- Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Mythistoria epistularum 2.0

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

-- Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

-- Gustave Flaubert, November

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

-- Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

-- Jalaluddin Rumi, The Fault in Our Stars

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

-- Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

-- Jill Shalvis, Head Over Heels

Successes don't teach you much, but mistakes? That's a learning situation.

-- Lyle Link, Dave Isay, The Word Exchange