Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
-- Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.
-- Brian Jacques, Collected Poems
Make your ideal your new real.
-- Derek Padula, You Can Work Your Own Miracles
Perseverance, endurance and patience are the three greatest survival skills.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.
-- Titania Hardie, The Rose Labyrinth
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
-- Anne Frank, Graceling
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
-- Jalaluddin Rumi, The Fellowship of the Ring
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
A man need is pain to be delivered from the pleasure of sin.
-- Lailah Gifty, Akita, Less
你能給孩子最棒的禮物,就是責任的根、以及獨立之翼。
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
-- 丹尼斯.魏特利,美國激勵演說家
努力追求完美是最大的阻礙。那是你給自己找的藉口,好讓你什麼都不做。你應該追求的是「卓越」,盡力就好。
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best .
-- 勞倫斯.奧利佛,英國導演、演員
The act of reading is skill that can be cultivated.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
For the sake of the aftermath.
-- Steve Dolson, You Are Safe Here.
I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
-- Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.
-- Dirk Wittenborn, Fierce People
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
-- John Muir, Buddha's Little Instruction Book
當你面對困難的處境,不要問「為什麼是我」,要說「讓我試試」。
When life puts you in tough situations, don't say 'Why Me?' Just say 'Try Me'.
-- 巨石強森,美國演員、職業摔角手
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
-- George Herbert, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
The reformation of society and restoration of spirituality should be our goal as Christians
-- Sunday Adelaja, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...
she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
-- Christopher Poindexter, The End of the Affair