One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.
-- Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Life is a barter of choice and consequences.
-- Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After
Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.
-- Sorin Cerin, The Art of Self-Control
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
-- William Shakespeare, Richard III
Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.
-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
-- Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen.
-- Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
A place is not really a place without a bookstore.
-- Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Self glory makes life meaningless, glorify God fulfills it
-- indonesia123, Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
-- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself.
-- Roy T. Bennett, The 48 Laws of Power
Love makes life better.
-- Leigh White, Walk the Edge
Stuff your brain with knowledge.
-- Karl Lagerfeld, Piddly poems for children vol:3
Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.
-- A.D. Posey, Walking the Path of Compassion
First knowledge is the knowledge of God.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Namesake
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
-- André Breton, What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.
-- Criss Jami, Killosophy
You do not find love. It finds you.
-- Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem