If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

-- Matsuri Hino, Blackmoore

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

-- J.K. Rowling, A Thousand Flamingos

The sky is not your limit...your beliefs are.

-- Lorri Faye, Corpkshetra

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

-- Khaled Hosseini, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

Religiousity is unself glory not purity

-- indonesia123, Wealth of Words

Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people.

-- Colleen Hoover, Slammed

The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.

-- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

-- Jorge Luis Borges, The Choice

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation.

-- Steve Maraboli, The Blue Hammer

想要無可取代，就要時刻與眾不同。

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

-- 可可．香奈兒，香奈兒品牌創始人

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back

It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.

-- Alessandro Baricco, Silk

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

-- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

-- Dr. Seuss, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

-- Eric Burns, The Joy of Books

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

-- Margaret Walker, The Little Prince

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

-- Hugh Walpole, Wealth of Words

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.

-- Shannon L. Alder, The Savage Detectives

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar