For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

-- Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.

-- Jody Gehrman, Babe in Boyland

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

-- Albert Camus, Emma

Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.

-- Abhijit Naskar, Breakfast with Buddha

Perfect is the enemy of good.

-- Voltaire, Morrigan's Cross

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

-- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.

-- Thomas S. Monson, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

We learn from failure, not from success!

-- Bram Stoker, Dracula

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

-- Criss Jami, Healology

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

-- Angela Schwindt, How to Be Good

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

-- Debasish Mridha, Lagoon

任何時候都不要放棄射門的欲望，如果第一次射門被守門員擋住，我就要力爭射第二次、第三次……

-- 肯佩斯，前阿根廷足球運動員

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

-- Octavia E. Butler, Hard Times

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

-- John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

-- Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

Only with grace, can we reach the goal.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Heart Crush

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

-- John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

-- Toni Morrison, The Kindly Ones

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

-- Michel Legrand, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

-- William Faulkner, Trees & Other Poems