Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you — a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you. … It's like electricity — we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.

~ Ray Charles ~

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford

快樂 不是擁有得多，而是計較得少

快樂 不是擁有得多，而是計較得少。

"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."
- Paul Brown

I feel that in my own life anything I have done of possible worth has happened in spite of my gross, worldly self. I have been no more than the vessel used to convey ideas above my intellectual capacities. When people praise passages I have written, more often than not I can genuinely say, "Did I write that?" I don't think this is due to my having a bad memory, because I have almost total recall of trivialities. I see it as evidence of the part the supernatural plays in lives which would otherwise remain earthbound.

~ Patrick White ~

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. If you simply have a consensus, it generally stultifies. It fails to see the problems of that consensus and it depends on the existence of critics to break up that iceberg and permit knowledge to develop. This is in fact one of the underpinnings of democratic theory. It is one of the reasons why we believe in notions of free speech and its one of the great forces in terms of intellectual development.

~ Walter Gilbert ~

My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.

~ José de San Martín ~

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.

~ Steve Jobs ~

I don’t believe in the “supernatural,” I believe in the “supernormal.” To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it’s because we haven’t been able to understand it yet.

~ Richard Matheson ~

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

~ Eleanor Farjeon ~

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind. ~ John Ruskin ~

(1)別和小人過不去，因為他本來就過不去； (2)別和社會過不去，因為你會過不去； (3)別和自己過不去，因為一切都會過去； (4)別和老婆/老公過不去，因為她/他會不讓你過去； (5)別和往事過不去，因為它已經過去； (6)別和現實過不去，因為你還要過下去。

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg ~

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. ~ Francis Bacon ~

We know our time on this Earth is fleeting. We know that we will each have our share of pleasure and pain, that even after we chase after some earthly goal, whether it’s wealth or power or fame or just simple comfort, we will, in some fashion, fall short of what we had hoped. We know that, no matter how good our intentions, we’ll all stumble sometimes in some way. We’ll make mistakes, we’ll experience hardships and even when we’re trying to do the right thing, we know that much of our time will be spent groping through the darkness, so often unable to discern God’s heavenly plans. There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace, that is true. ~ Barack Obama ~

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. ~ Alexander Hamilton ~

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to "social peace," though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force. ~ A. J. Muste ~