Dubium sapientiae initium (Doubt is the origin of wisdom).
-- René Descartes, Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander
When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.
-- Kim Sowol, Just One Day
Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.
-- Devdutt Pattanaik, Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana
人因懼怕而亡,因自信而生。
People die of fright and live of confidence.
-- 梭羅,美國作家
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
-- James Joyce, Dubliners
Life did not stop, and one had to live.
-- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.
-- Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.
-- Moira Young, Blood Red Road
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
-- Brian Tracy, New Order
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
-- Henry Ford, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
-- Compton Gage, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
-- Charles Bukowski, The Little Paris Bookshop
Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all...
-- Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
-- W.C. Fields, Seriously... I'm Kidding
Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?
-- Shannon L. Alder, Ulysses
樂觀的人和悲觀的人都會面臨死亡。他們只是生活方式不同,而我寧可過樂觀的生活。
Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.
-- 希蒙·佩雷斯,政治家
No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.
-- Osho, النضج: عودة الإنسان إلى ذاته
Your omnipresence is marvellous! I breathe and you enter me. I exhale and enter into you.
-- Kamand Kojouri, The Hakawati
贏者無法接受自己失敗,輸者不敢想像自己成功。
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
-- 比莉·珍·金,網球選手
I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.
-- Turcois Ominek, Lady Oracle