If the gold wants to be purified, it has to pass through fire. Love
-- Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
-- Euripides, Wuthering Heights
I embrace my experience and value my wisdom.
-- Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
光忙是不夠的,螞蟻也很忙。我們必須自問:我們在忙什麼?
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
-- 梭羅,美國作家
I always have many roads to travel, but I take the one which leads to you.
-- Amit Kalantri, I Love You Too
所有別人惹惱我們的事情,都能讓我們更瞭解自己。
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- 卡爾·榮格,瑞士心理學家
失敗就是有人犯錯了,卻無法從失敗的經驗中受惠。
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
-- 阿爾伯特.哈伯德,美國作家
Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.
-- Saleem Sharma, My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East
Tell me, who in this life, were never guided in course of their realization of their goal?
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
帶著一顆滿足的心入睡,早上就能帶著堅定的決心起床。
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
-- 喬治.洛里默,美國記者、作家
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-- Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone
欣賞是一件很棒的事;它讓別人的優點也成為我們自己的。
Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
-- 伏爾泰,法國啟蒙時代思想家
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
-- Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.
-- Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
mereka tidak dapat mengambil harga diri kita kalau kita tidak memberikannya kepada mereka
-- Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi
The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.
-- Piper Payne, Капітани Космосу
It's all about the smiles!
-- Emmy Swain, Killosophy
Nothing that the Creator gave is of unworthiness.
-- Gloria D. Gonsalves, Let's Go Dancing in the Light: A Collection of Poetry and Prose for Soul and Spirit
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
-- Brian Cox, Stranger than Fiction
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
-- Albert Camus, Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity