Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.
-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
-- Roman Payne, Moth Smoke
There is no higher happiness than peace.
-- Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walden
Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.
-- Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
Go to bed," he ordered. "Go to bed... and stay there.
-- Cindy Gerard, To the Edge
I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.
-- Scott Stabile, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
-- John Lennon, The Kite Runner
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
-- Anaïs Nin, Twilight
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
-- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
心中充滿感激,卻不將它表達出來,就像是把禮物包裝好了,卻沒送出去一樣。
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
-- 威廉.亞瑟.沃德,美國作家
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
-- George Orwell, Coming Up for Air
Do as I say, not as I do.
-- Swami Pranayomama, How To Not Give A F-ck In Ten Easy Steps: The Modern Lay Person's Guide To Enlightenment
Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.
-- Claire Fagin, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Books may well be the only true magic.
-- Alice Hoffman, Anna Karenina
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
-- Jalaluddin Rumi, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season.
-- Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?
-- Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
the first thing for you to understand about yourself is that you don't know anything.
-- Osho, The Voice of Silence