Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion

-- Ziggy Marley, The Best of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers

By seeking and blundering we learn.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Don't count your owls before they are delivered.

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

如果你等的船沒有向你駛來，那就朝它游過去吧。

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

-- 喬納森·溫特斯，美國知名喜劇大師

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

-- Winston S. Churchill, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

-- Jean Racine, The Fault in Our Stars

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

-- Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

You must feed yourself the truth because the world is sure to serve you lies.

-- Serina Hernandez, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Lesen, lesen, immer nur lesen und darüber die eigene erbärmliche Existenz vergessen!

-- Walter Moers, Das Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.

-- Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.

-- Stacy Verdick Case, A Monster Calls

It is wonderful, this whole business of tickling and kissing God every night.

-- Kamand Kojouri, Thomas Merton

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

-- Philip Chesterfield, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Romance is everything to turn it into a cause for given is priceless

-- Maxine Wilson-Perry, Will Love Justify Everything?: Does Love Overcome the Injustices of Life?

Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit.

-- Louise Philippe Dulay, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Security is of the world, insecurity is of the divine.

-- Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

-- Albert Pike, Percepliquis

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

-- Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

-- Benjamin Franklin, A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith