If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea.

-- Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

Know thyself.

-- Socrates, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

-- G.I. Gurdjieff, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

-- Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

-- Socrates, To Kill a Mockingbird

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

-- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Time is the skin of existence.

-- Renzo Dante (Saligiare), The Problem of Pain

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

-- Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

-- Toni Morrison, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

-- Terry Pratchett, Poems from the Heart

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

-- Jalaluddin Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

-- Veronica Roth, Allegiant

It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.

-- Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

愛的相反不是恨，是冷漠。藝術的相反不是醜陋，是冷漠。信仰的相反不是邪魔歪道，是冷漠。生命的相反不是死亡，而是冷漠。

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

-- 埃利．維瑟爾，作家、諾貝爾和平獎得主

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

-- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end.

-- Siobhan Vivian, Not That Kind of Girl

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

-- Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. [Eddie Scissons]

-- W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

Though sorrow may impede my heart, It is of great love to have known you.

-- C. Elizabeth, One Week Girlfriend