Passionate life is the beauty of a sacred-existence.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.
-- Osho, The Journey of Being Human: Is It Possible to Find Real Happiness in Ordinary Life?
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
-- Paul Simon, Eat, Pray, Love
人生像是一台 10 段變速腳踏車, 大多數人都有沒用到的排檔。
Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
-- 查爾斯‧舒茲,《Peanuts》美國漫畫家
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
-- Rabindranath Tagore, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Man created religion in order to avoid god.
-- Avaah Rayner, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Don't Panic.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)
-- Robert Harris, Downsiders
武力無法維持和平,只有相互理解可以。
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
-- 亞伯特.愛因斯坦,相對論之父
Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life," Gansey replied.
-- Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something.
-- Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S, Along for the Ride
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld, Naked and Sexual
يؤلمني أنَّ كلَّ الأشياء ظلَّت وفيةً، إلا أنتِ.
-- محمد حسن علوان, سقف الكفاية
If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.
-- Mik Everett, The Iron Daughter
Ignorance is the master key of all evils.
-- Efrat Cybulkiewicz, My Cousin Rachel
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.
-- Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
-- Jonathan Hennessey, The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity.
-- Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
There is a greater grace for every great sin.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Lord of the Flies: Fitness for Writers