Love, Michael Garrett Marino

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

- Michael Garrett Marino

Winter, William Shakespeare

Blow, blow, thou winter wind. Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Beauty, Spanish Proverb

The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house.

- Spanish Proverb

Japan, Qin Gang (秦剛)

The essence of Japanese leaders' visits to the Yasukuni shrine is to beautify Japan's history of militaristic aggression and colonial rule. It is an attempt to overturn international society's just ruling on Japan's militarism and to challenge the results of World War II and the post-war international order.

- Qin Gang (秦剛), Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman, immediately after Abe's visit to the shrine (
Dec 26, 2013)

Writings, James Dickey

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

- James Dickey (1923-1997)

Advice, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Beauty, Christopher Paolini

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

― Christopher Paolini (1983- ), Eragon and Eldest

Happiness, Booker T. Washington

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

- Booker T. Washington (1858-1915)

Advice, Chinese Proverb

Not been on the Great Wall, not a great man.

- Chinese Proverb

War, Chester W. Nimitz

Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

- Chester W. Nimitz (1885-1966)

Faith and Works, Bible, New Testament

Faith and Works.

Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless?

+ Letter of James 2:20

http://www.usccb.org/bible/James/2

Women, H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married, too.

- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Beauty, Khalil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

- Kahlil Gibran (1983-1931)

아름다움은 얼굴에 있지 않습니다. 마음 속에 있는 빛입니다.

- Khalil Gibran

Beauty, Richard Armour

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin-skinned people.

- Richard Armour (1906-1989)

Beauty, Laurence J. Peter

Every girl should use beauty that Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

- Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) Canadian teacher and author of the best-selling book The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong (1969)

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Laurence_J._Peter

Failure, Irish Proverb

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.

- Irish Proverb

Heroine, Wonder Woman

I am Diana, Princess of the Amazons! I won't be denied!

- Wonder Woman, Justice League, Paradise Lost

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Justice_League

Beauty, German Proverb

Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom.

- German Proverb

Job, Wreck-It Ralph from Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Wreck-It Ralph: It's hard to love your job, when no one else seems to like you for doing it...

- Wreck-It Ralph from Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Death, Genghis Khan

If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.

- Genghis Khan (1162-1227)

Happiness, Western Proverb

Every rose has its thorn.

- Western Proverb

Anger, Unknown

Keep your mouth shut when you are swimming and when you are angry.

- Unknown

Autumn, Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a harmony. In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Wisdom, Western Proverb

Painted flowers have no scent.

- Western Proverb

Belief, Linda Ellerbee

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

- Linda Ellerbee (1944- )

Life, Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden from Fight Club (1999)

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you, never wanted you, in all probability he hates you. It's not the worst thing that could happen.

- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden from Fight Club (1999)

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(film)

Modesty, Confucius (孔子)

君子欲訥於言而敏於行。

- 孔子

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

- Confucius (孔子, 551BC–479BC)

Autumn, Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Love, Portuguese Proverb

An old man in love is like a flower in winter.

- Portuguese Proverb

Belief, Denis Waitley

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

- Denis Waitley (1933- )

나를 망설이게 하는 것은 나 자신이 아니라 난 할 수 없을 것이라는 생각하는 것이다.

- 데니스 웨이틀리 (Denis Waitley)

Fear, Sergeant Calhoun from Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Sergeant Calhoun: "Fear" is a four-letter word!

- Sergeant Calhoun from Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Knowledge·Wisdom, Confucius (孔子)

過猶不及。

- 孔子

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

- Confucius (孔子, 551BC–479BC)

Autumn, Mitchell Burgess

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

- Mitchell Burgess

Wisdom, Western Proverb

If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.

- Western Proverb

Leader·Leadership, David Gergen

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become, and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

- David Gergen (1942- )

Desert, Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump from Forest Gump (1994)

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

― Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump from Forest Gump

Study, Confucius (孔子)

Study the past if you would define the future.

- Confucius (孔子, 551BC–479BC)

Beauty, John Donne

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

- John Donne (1572-1631)

Life, Hellenic Proverb

It will not always be summer.

- Hellenic Proverb

Attitude, Harry S. Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

- Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)

Love, James Garner as Noah Calhoun/"Duke" from The Notebook (2004)

They didn't agree on much. In fact, they rarely agreed on anything. They fought all the time, and they challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.

- James Garner as Old Noah Calhoun/"Duke" from The Notebook (2004)