“Ordinary everyday life consists far more largely of horrors than writers of fiction usually care to admit.”—George Orwell
There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are thing we don’t know we don’t know
Ah: the Johari Window 
“Winning is for losers.” One F Jef
In honor of yogi berra passing
'It ain’t over ‘til it’s over’
Or my favorite
‘When you get to the fork in the road, take it!’
“The past is an information bank from which you can learn; it is not a web in which you are caught.”(Gillian Butler and Tony Hope)
My favourite inspirational quotes are:
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” - Albert Einstein.
“You have to be odd to be number one.” - Dr. Seuss
Dream big and dare to fail. (Norman Vaughan)
Tough times never last. Tough people do. (Dr Robert Schuller)
The best way out is always through. (Robert Frost)
The best dreams happen when you’re awake. (Cherie Gilderbloom)
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. (Charles Kettering)
You must not only aim right, but draw your body with all your might. (Henry David Thoreau)
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. (Mary Kay Ash)
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. (Napoleon Hill)
It is never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)
The road to easy street goes through the sewer. (John Madden)
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard)
Do what you love and the money will follow. (Marsha Sinetar)
Pertaining to my rationale towards language learning, I enjoy these quotes:
“You’re only as good as the time you put in”
“失败是成功之母”
“Kleinvieh macht auch Mist”
‘You’ve got what it takes but it will take everything you’ve got.’ (framed and put up in my study room right since my college days)
‘Don’t cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it’ll be free yogurt.’
‘To be happy you must be your own sunshine.’ (they say this and it sounds good to hear but personally speaking, my daughter is my sunshine )
‘Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.’ (Unfortunately, this is true. Fortunately, it holds true even for fun games in math like these → http://www.mathblaster.com/ )
‘It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.’ (Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter)
‘If you want to be happy, be.’
「丈夫、書万巻を擁さば、何ぞ百城に南面するを仮らんや。」
「坐して百城を擁す。」
(合山究「故事成語」講談社現代新書、1991年)
《魏書・李謐傳》：“丈夫擁書萬卷，何假南面百城？”
http://tw.ichacha.net/hy/坐擁百城.html
Mere presence of disability doesn’t render life not worth living.
それは謎です… 謎と いうのは説明できない事柄の こと です。 笑
これ が分かりません から 、説明して もらえます か ？
An honourable person prefers living wth millions of books to owning a hundred castles.
すばらしいですよ！。もちろん、しかしもし私にもっとお金があれば。。。then those castles could be filled with the orphans, the homeless, the disabled… 願っただけでいいものならこじきもたちまら金持さ。
疾風知勁草
疾風に勁草を知る
http://tw.ichacha.net/hy/疾風知勁草.html
“Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process; he is not merely an extant life, but is, within that life, endowed with possibilities through the freedom he possesses to make of himself what he will by the activities on which he decides.” - Karl Jaspers
“‘Do what you want’ risks becoming a call to impulsiveness and hedonism. … Ask not what you want from life, but what life wants from you, what’s trying to come into being through you?”(Oliver Burkeman)