Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
-- Mother Teresa, The Hunger Games
It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
You can't lie to your soul.
-- Irvine Welsh, Porno
每個人都應該在人生的段落設定幾個檢查點,每一次都要放下屠刀立地成佛。
-- 曹啟泰,台灣演藝人員
Some days are better than other days A good day is getting 10 royalties and 10 great reviews
-- Ray Mathews, The Golden Crows
We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
-- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
-- Gene Fowler, An Echo in the Bone
This is who the fuck I am.
-- Lady Gaga, Mere Christianity
Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.
-- Thomas L. Masson, Casa Rossa
No-thinking is the door. No-word is the gate. No-mind is the way.
-- Osho, Hsin Hsin Ming, the Book of Nothing: Discourses on the Faith Mind of Sosan
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, The Intern
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
-- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
If we would spend as much time with the world as we spend going to church, the church would grow.
-- Alin Sav, Freedom from the Known
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
-- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
There's always a free lunch with Cosmic Ordering.
-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Home is where your heart is.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Heart Crush
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
-- Roy T. Bennett, The Lords of Discipline
Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
-- Ann Voskamp, Exploring Celtic Spirituality
沒有什麼比拖延一堆待辦事項更令人身心俱疲的事了。
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
-- 威廉.詹姆士,美國哲學與心理學家