It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

-- Mitch Albom, For One More Day

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

-- Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget who you are.

-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.

-- Carl Sandburg, The Bookshop Book

Self education is the key to self liberation.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

-- Karen Maezen Miller, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life

I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

-- George Eliot, Middlemarch

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

聰明與否的評估標準，在於改變的能力。

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

-- 亞伯特．愛因斯坦，相對論之父

Curiosity is the pleasure of seeking

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charl

It’s like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.

-- Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

-- Socrates, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

Be courageous enough to learn from failures and bold enough to begin anew.

-- Debasish Mridha, The Gospel of Relaxation

The only truth is music.

-- Jack Kerouac, Clockwork Angel

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

To the extent you expand your consciousness is the extent to which you experience being divine.

-- Erin Fall Haskell, Seven Paths to Freedom

Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.

-- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

-- Alex Flinn, Beastly

Death is [...] the blackboard on which life is written.

-- Osho, The Book of Wisdom