... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

-- Mike Bryan, The Afterword: A Novel

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

-- Jim Henson, Me Before You

What other people think of me is not my business.

-- Michael J. Fox, The Double Comfort Safari Club

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

-- Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

I cannot live without books.

-- Thomas Jefferson, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

-- David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Sacred joy exists in any suffering.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Enlightenment Step by Step

If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind.

-- Todd Stocker, The Stars My Destination

你的每一個行為都是在播種，即使你還沒見到收成。

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

-- 艾拉‧惠勒‧威爾克斯，美國詩人作家

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

-- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

Love is perhaps the only emotions that is boundless

-- Santosh Avvannavar, Umbilical Cord

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

-- Bill Nye, Pride and Prejudice

一個人想要獲得真正的幸福只需要三件事情：有人愛，有事做，有所期待。

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

-- 湯姆‧鮑德，演員

An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.

-- Compton Gage, Potentiality Enhancement Programs

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

-- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

-- Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

-- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

Spirituality is not creating boundaries but creating space for others to come into your life.

-- Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

-- George Eliot, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

-- Kevin J. Anderson, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters