I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
-- Eudora Welty, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends
There is no fear in faith.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Film Testament
Wonder is wisdom.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, My Life on the Road
God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.
-- Amit Ray, House Made of Dawn
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
別讓那些不懂珍惜你的人來衡量你的價值。
Don't let someone who doesn't know your value tell you how much you're worth.
-- 佚名,
What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
-- Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams
when you're cool for twenty, you get paid for twenty-one.
-- Miguel Piñero, White Nights
You are what you eat and read.
-- Maya Corrigan, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.
-- Kylie Scott, Dirty
Love always doesn't come across as bad, but it always has two sides.
-- Auliq Ice, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
-- Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
-- Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.
-- Rashi, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
You gotta be cruel to be kind.
-- William Shakespeare, The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 2
I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
-- Jo Walton, Among Others
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
-- George Savile Halifax, You Can
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
-- Marcel Proust, Rayuela
There is no great companion like a book.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind