And I feel that something's coming, and it's not just in the wind. It's more than just tomorrow, it's more than where we've been, It offers me a promise, it's telling me "Begin", I know we're needing something worth believing in.

~ Harry Chapin ~

勤勞是幸運的右手，節儉是幸運的左手

勤勞是幸運的右手，節儉是幸運的左手

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

~ Werner Heisenberg ~

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.

~ Joseph Conrad ~ in ~ The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' ~

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.

~ Sarah Grimké ~

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

~ Nadine Gordimer ~

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

~ Joseph McCabe ~

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, thatknowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

~ Carl Sagan ~

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.

~ Will Durant ~

Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

~ Lois McMaster Bujold ~

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

~ Denise Levertov ~

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

~ Alphonse de Lamartine ~

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

~ Jimmy Carter ~

陶晶瑩「時間幸福學」9堂課

陶晶瑩「時間幸福學」9堂課

早睡早起身體好，「晨型人」效率更高。

懂得取捨、放下與知足，更能掌控有限的時間。

想清楚生命中的順位，就不會覺得委屈、遺憾。

不必事事追求完美，累死自己。

建立良好人際網絡，外部的支持可適時幫很多忙。

善用每個空檔的零散時間，化整為零。

專注力加上熱誠，使同樣一件事做得比別人快又好。

良好的情緒管理，是使時間管理更有效率的首要前提。

凡事抓重點，培養邏輯力，避免廢話連篇。

結婚麵包機

兩個人相識相戀結婚，是人生的奇蹟。希望他們永遠像每天早上一起做麵包一樣，各取適量的麵粉、糖、雞蛋、牛奶、水等，和麵、烘烤、享受共同勞作的樂趣和成果；彼此不問各自所有，卻盡各自所能，貢獻於共同的命運，創造出共同的未來。

如果我們每天都能這樣付出與享受，就像每天烘烤和品嘗麵包一樣，培育呵護愛情、使之常新常鮮，如果這樣，我們就應該去結婚。（作者為復旦大學管理學院院長）

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

~ John Brunner ~

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

~ George R. R. Martin ~

One soul was ours, one mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doating, ask'd not why it doated. And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to me; That man is more than half of nature's treasure, Of that fair beauty which no eye can see, Of that sweet music which no ear can measure; And now the streams may sing for other's pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity.

~ Hartley Coleridge ~

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

~ Samuel Johnson ~

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper— whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~

I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded as irrelevant and useless. If you can measure it, don't. If you can weigh it, it isn't worth the bother. It isn't what you're after. It isn't going to get it. My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision. I looked, I saw, I understood, I felt, "That's that, where do we go from here?"

~ William Saroyan ~

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot evenimagine. ~ Mary Shelley ~

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in providence, than to see their real import or value.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

~ Bernard Baruch ~

I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, howeverimperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence.

~ Felix Adler ~

We have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes.

~ Henry Fairfield Osborn ~

I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children; whose work serves the earthhe lives on and from and with, and is therefore pleasurable and meaningful and unending; whose rewards are not deferred until "retirement," but arrive daily and seasonally out of the details of the life of their place; whose goal is the continuance of the life of the world, which for a while animates and contains them, and which they know they can never compass with their understanding or desire.

~ Wendell Berry ~

We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...

~ Clifford D. Simak ~

Nobody knows about my man. They think he's lost on some horizon. And suddenly I find myself Listening to a man I've never known before, Telling me about the sea, All his love, 'til Eternity. Ooh, he's here again, The man with the child in his eyes.

~ Kate Bush ~

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

~ Hilaire Belloc ~

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.

~ Eric Hoffer ~

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

~ Sheri S. Tepper ~