No one escape death!

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle

We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy.

-- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.

-- Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Reach out to your sacred-dreams.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything.

-- Compton Gage, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

有人曾問我長大想做什麼，我寫下「快樂」，他們說我沒聽懂問題，我說他們不懂人生。

They asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

-- 約翰．藍儂，英國音樂人

You can find a better you inside of you. Why don’t you search for that?

-- Munia Khan, What is Mind?

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

-- Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

Education gives light.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Steppenwolf

Do not let your heart be troubled, trust in God.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

-- P.G. Wodehouse, Eat, Pray, Love

別害怕為了追求卓越而放棄眼前的美好。

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

-- 約翰 ‧ 洛克菲勒，美國工業家

On a day like today, there's no friend like a book.

-- Laura Purdie Salas, BookSpeak!: Poems about Books

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

-- Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

You are human, so stop acting as if though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself.

-- Stephen Richards, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

The more you read, the more you will love to read.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

-- Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves.

-- Marty Rubin, Life Should Be Simple and Easy: If You're Doing It Hard, You're Doing It Wrong

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

-- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower