It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
-- Jean Toomer, Cane
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
-- Gautama Buddha, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
-- Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
-- Marcel Proust, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.
-- H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land
Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?
-- Shannon L. Alder, Write like no one is reading
Destroying things is much easier than making them.
-- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Love those you hate you.
-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
He's like a drug for you, Bella.
-- Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
-- Petar Dunov, Selected Poems
Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
-- Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?
-- Compton Gage, Principia Humanitas
求知若飢,虛心若愚。
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
-- 史蒂夫.賈伯斯,蘋果創辦人
Mungkin kau harus berhenti memedulikan apa kata orang tentang dirimu.
-- Francisca Todi, Mafia Espresso
Wisdom comes from reflection.
-- Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.
-- Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
-- Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
Without written goals, we fail to plan and to run with single-minded purpose.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
-- Voltaire, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, Pride and Prejudice