- terry josephson : no matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
- woodrow wilson : sometimes i am a bit ashamed of myself when i think how few friends i have amidst a host of acquaintances. plenty of people offer me their friendship; but, partly, because i am reserved and shy, and partly because i am fastidious and have a narrow, uncatholic taste in friends, i reject the offer in almost every case; and then am dismayed to look about and see how few persons in the world stand near me and know me as i am,- in such wise that they can give me sympathy and close support of heart. perhaps it is because when i give at all i want to give my whole heart, and i feel that so few want it all, or would return measure for measure. am I wrong, do you think, in that feeling? and can one as deeply covetous of friendship and close affection as i am afford to act upon such a feeling?
- marilyn monroe : i make mistakes, i am out of control and at times hard to handle. but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- marlene dietrich : it's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- pablo picasso : art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- ellen degeneres : i really don't think i need buns of steel. i'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.
- judy garland : always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- dwight l. moody : character is what you are in the dark.
- s.i. hayakawa : i'm going to speak my mind because i have nothing to lose.
- katherine hepburn : if you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
- erma bombeck : seize the moment. remember all those women on the titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
- marc maihueird : love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually compatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.
- george bernard shaw : some people see things as they are and say why. i dream things that never were and say why not?
- helen keller : never bend your head. always hold it high. look the world straight in the eye.
- bill gates : success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- bernard baruch : be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- albert einstein : there are only two ways to live your life. one is as though nothing is a miracle. the other is as though everything is a miracle.
- eleanor roosevelt : no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- ambrose redmoon : outrage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. the brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
- sigmund freud : human beings are funny. they long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. but one thing about human beings that puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
- jason mraz : affirm to yourself, 'i am fucking awesome!' the culmination of billions of years of evolution has created this moment with you in it – and quite a lucky star you are to experience all this.
- waitress : dear baby, i hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. they don't pull away. they don't look at your face. they don't try to kiss you. all they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness in it.
- unknown : life doesn't give you the people you want. it gives you the people you need. to help you. to hurt you. to love you. to leave you. and to make you into the person you were meant to be.
- nip/tuck : none of us get out alive. now you can huddle in a group and face it one day at a time, or you could be grateful that when your body rubs against someone else's, it explodes with enough pleasure that you can forget, even for a minute, that you're only a walking pile of ashes.
- emo philips : when i was a kid i used to pray every night for a new bicycle. then i realised god doesn’t work that way, so i stole one and prayed for forgiveness.
- mark feuerstein : in high school, i was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd. when i got to college, i realized that building a resume to get into a good school was no longer necessary. i had already gotten into one. i might as well follow my bliss.
- megan fox : if your idea of a role model is somebody who’s gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then i’m not a role model. but if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then i want to be that type of role model, yeah.
- andrea dworkin : women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.
- che guevara : we cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
- gandhi : my life is my message.
- philip solomon : life is too short not to get tattooed.
- audrey niffenegger : we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
- william butler yeats : tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- roy croft : i love you not only for what you are, but for what i am when i am with you. i love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. i love you for the part of me that you bring out.
- lee pace : everything we do is a choice. oatmeal or cereal? highway or side streets? kiss her or keep her? we make choices and we live with the consequences. if someone gets hurt along the way, we ask for forgiveness. it’s the best anyone can do.
- samuel johnson : the true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- stokely carmichael : the secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
- evelyn beatrice hall : i disapprove of what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it.
- henry ford : whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
- george bernard shaw : you see things; and you say 'why?' but i dream things that never were; and i say 'why not?'
- elizabeth kubler ross : people are like stained-glass windows. they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- madonna : i'm tough, i'm ambitious, and i know exactly what i want. if that makes me a bitch, okay.
- hitch : never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. but if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. if you must steal, steal away from bad company. if you must cheat, cheat death. and if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
- leap year : may you never steal, lie, or cheat, but if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows, and if you must lie, lie with me all the nights of my life, and if you must cheat, then please cheat death because i couldn't live a day without you.
- the beatles : and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
- mark twain : twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. catch the trade winds in your sails. explore. dream.
- lu xun : hope belongs to the future.
- john shedd : a ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for.
- jack london: i would rather be ashes than dust! i would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. i would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. the function of man is to live, not to exist. i shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. i shall use my time.
- ernest hemingway : grace under pressure.
- f. scott fitzgerald : that is part of the beauty of literature. you discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. you belong.
- 葉蒨文 : 我願陪你到天涯到海角到天老到地荒
- stephen hawking : we are very, very small. but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.
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