Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.
-- Paul W. Silver, The Dangerous Dream
Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!
-- Mark A. Cooper, (Edelweiss Pirates #1) ‘Operation Einstein'
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
-- Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
時機、堅持與十幾年的努力,最終會讓你看起來像是一夕成功。
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
-- 畢茲.史東,Twitter創辦人之一
Let me feel how thy pulses beat.
-- Thomas Middleton, The Changeling
To travel is to live.
-- Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
Begin to write, your heart flow with sacred words.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Changing is what people do when they have no options left.
-- Holly Black, Red Glove
Just because he likes the same bizzaro crap as you doesn't mean he's your soul mate.
-- Rachel Hansen, Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
-- Stuart Chase, Gilead
Let your work speak, Let your work scream, Let your work live, Forever.
-- Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer
Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.
-- Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart
Most things are relative, but perspective is everything.
-- Adele Green in Can You See Me Naked: Grow in a conscious relationship, The Marvin Songs : Three One-Act Musicals
Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
-- Cormac McCarthy, The Darkest Part of the Forest
There is a rise after every fall.
The world of books is the only paradise there is.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
普通的領導者把人們帶往他們想去的地方,偉大的領導者把人們帶往他們不一定想去,但該去的地方。
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
-- 羅莎琳‧卡特,美國前第一夫人
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
-- Walt Whitman, Romeo and Juliet
不要數著日子過,要讓每一天都很有意義。
Don't count the days, make the days count.
-- 穆罕默德·阿里,美國知名拳擊手
A grandmother’s love is selfless all the way to the bones.
-- Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Me Before Them