Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

-- Dion Boucicault, Cress

The pain is necessary to find the power of being.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Corpkshetra

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

-- Voltaire, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

People don't vanish from one's life; they come back in disguise.

-- Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude

Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

-- Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

通往成功的電梯故障了，你就只好爬樓梯，一次一步慢慢爬。

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs. .. one step at a time.

-- 喬．吉拉德，美國著名業務員

Love wins, love always wins.

-- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

You have two choices, to conquer your fear or to let your fear conquer you.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

‎"Based on a true story"? No, thanks. I prefer "based on a true imagination".

-- Enkelejd Lamaj, Something New

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

-- Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

I will not try to make you love me, to respect me or commit yourself to me. Bye.

-- Ane Krstevska, Wealth of Words

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

-- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

-- Orhan Pamuk, Snow

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

-- Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

The right, real and good connection between things produces the right, real and good things.

-- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, A Handbook for My Lover

Don’t wait for success, use Cosmic Ordering.

-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

-- E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic

-- Mohadesa Najumi, To Conquer Heaven

all appears to change when we change

-- Henri-Frédéric Amiel, The Watch That Ends the Night

Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.

-- Gregory J. Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion