Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
-- Lloyd Alexander, Letter to My Daughter
Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.
-- Osho, Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
-- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Do you think I will live until that time? If not, who will be alive when it happens?
-- Compton Gage, The Silence Between the Sighs
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
-- ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlawī al-Ḥaddād, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
Don’t wait for the tornado, struggles make you reach the castle.
-- Basheer Amiri, A Fine Balance
There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.
-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
The greatest mistake a leader or anyone can make is to stay down after falling.
-- ANIKOR Daniel, An Ember in the Ashes
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
-- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.
-- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
-- Bob Marley, I Am the Messenger
Look after my heart - I've left it with you.
-- Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
為你的人生創造最崇高、最宏偉的願景,因為你將成為你所相信的。
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
-- 歐普拉.溫芙蕾,美國電視脫口秀主持人、製片人、投資家、慈善家
幸福不是製作好的成品,它存在於你自身的行動中。
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
-- 達賴喇嘛-第十四世_丹增嘉措,西藏精神領袖
A man enjoys the happiness he feels, and a woman the happiness she gives.
-- A. J. Rich, Knight's Shadow
They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.
-- Kurt Cobain, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
We are very skilled, but at the same time too lazy.
-- Alin Sav, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer
So many books, so little time.
-- Frank Zappa
The planet is fine. The people are fucked.
-- George Carlin, Dune
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
-- William Stafford, The Tempest