The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

"To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."

~William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

- James Thorpe

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

- Franklin P. Adams

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

- George Bernard Shaw

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

- Horace Walpole

Having the true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.
– Steve Prefontaine

When you reach for the stars, you won’t quite get one, but you won’t come with handful of mud either.

Few of us know what we are capable of doing, we have never push ourselves hard enough.

- Alfred montapert

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

- Zach Braff

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

- Evan Esar

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

- Suzanne Necker

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

- Hannah Arendt

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

- Mike Myers

To be here is so much。
- Rainer Maria Rilke

The human person is a threshold where many infinities meet. There is the infinity of space that reaches out into the depths of the cosmos and the infinity of time reaching back over billions of years.

- JOHN O’DONOHUE

John is a wonderful writer i discovered recently, an Irish poet and scholar, Unforunately, died last month at 53 years.

Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching.

- Scott Adams

I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

- John Maynard Keynes

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

- Michael Crichton

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

- John F. Kennedy

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

- George Bernard Shaw

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

- W. Somerset Maugham

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

- Elbert Hubbard

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

how to translate this sentence?
thesunlover,pls.

Help, help, 晨思!

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

一篇好散文有这样的特质；它营造的氛围像帷帐一般把我们围在里面，而不是外面。




～最近工作太忙，没时间文学了。。。

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
- Rilke

"To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, but a living one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving"

Vincent van Gogh

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

- William James

Thanks alot for your help, 晨思! Nice job as always.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

- Abraham Lincoln

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

- GK Chesterton

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

- CS Lewis

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

- Sir Arthur Eddington

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

- Bertrand Russell

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

- Joseph Roux

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

- Laurence J. Peter

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
-Erma Bombeck

It's impossible. At that time, I would be very happy if I used half of my talent God gives me.