If you wish to possess your soul, be patient.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
-- Markus Herz, The Garden of Eden
A truth that no one knows is still the truth.
-- Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
-- Bette Midler, Keeping the Moon
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.
-- C.S. Lewis, The Education of Henry Adams
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
-- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.
-- Tarjei Vesaas, The Bridges
Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.
-- Santosh Kalwar, High Fidelity
When you argue with reality, reality always wins
-- Adyashanti, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Be innovative.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Without a vivid picture of what you want, how can you reach it?
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Daily reading is vital for own self development.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
-- Aldous Huxley, A Happy Death
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-- Joseph Brodsky, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
-- Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
-- Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
-- Oprah Winfrey, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.
-- Stephenie Meyer, New Moon