读书多了，容颜自然改变。许多时候，自己可能以为许多看过的书籍都成过眼烟云，不复记忆，其实他们仍是潜在的。在气质里，在谈吐上，在胸襟的无涯。当然，也能显露在生活和文字中。
—— 三毛，《关于读书》
化妆只是最末的一个枝节，它能改变的事实很少。深一层的化妆是改变体质，让一个人改变生活方式，睡眠充足，注意运动与营养，这样她的皮肤改善，精神充足，比化妆有效得多。再深一层的化妆是改变气质，多读书，多欣赏艺术，多思考，对生活乐观，对生命有信心，心地善良，关怀别人，自爱而有尊严，这样的人就是不化妆也丑不到哪里去。脸上的化妆只是化妆最后的一件小事。我用一句简单的话来说明：三流的化妆是脸上的化妆，二流的化妆是精神的化妆，一流的化妆是生命的化妆。
—— 林清玄，《生命的化妆》
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
—— Dead Poet Society
I do not like the idea of happiness — it is too momentary. I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.
—— Georgia O'Keefe, Award-winning painter
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
—— Richard Feynman
The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.
—— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle