Only the right pain gets the right gain.

-- Max McKeown, #NOW: The Surprising Truth About the Power of Now

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

-- Lao Tzu, How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

-- José Saramago, El hombre duplicado

Happiness is a big joke; let us laugh at it loud.

-- Santosh Kalwar, Yes Man

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

-- Richard Paul Evans, The Gift

To eradicate blindness, let us create opportunities for everyone to get an education.

-- Debasish Mridha, The Mercy of Men

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

-- Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

-- Emma Donoghue, Room

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

-- G.K. Chesterton, Home Safe

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

-- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

I change the world, the world changes me.

-- Libba Bray, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

-- Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

-- Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

It is only God who gives strength and wisdom for fulfill the God-given dream.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You never fail until you stop trying.

-- Albert Einstein, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

Crowds create illusions.

-- Osho, Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

-- Goldie Hawn, Along for the Ride

A felicidade nunca é graciosa. Happiness is never gracious.

-- Aldous Huxley, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton