Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".
Friday, September 3, 2010
Anotoine de Saint Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten"
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
The essence of the candle, it's not the the wax, who leaves traces, but light (Citadel)
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction
I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
The only real valuable thing is intuition
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
The only real valuable thing is intuition
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Short
Half of being smart it's knowing what you're dumb.
Neurosis is a disease.
Nature hates hero. First he breaks the law of energy conservation. Second, how strong can survive when the strongest is always mixed in situations where it is likely to disappear?
With a little ignorance can go far.
Learn to be honest. Even if you have to fake.
There is no absolute truth - it is absolutely true.
Understand the laws of nature does not mean being free to not obey them.
Human race never solve any of its problems. Only strives to survive them.
Hell has no fury nearly pacifist.
If you think it is, it's not!
- Gold's law
If the shoe fits, it'a ugly.
- Laws buying clothes
If you like it and there is your size, does not suit you.
If you like and suits you, you can not afford to pay the price.
If you like, suits you and you can afford, it will take to pieces at first use.
- The first law of conservatives.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Honore Balzac
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Osho
If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course of time will you start; moving into the world of light and crystallization, but once you are crystallized you will know what real revolution is. Then share your revolution with others; it has to go that way, from heart to heart.
A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it. Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe. In the beginning it is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of you...let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you. And each time you don't allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.
A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft. Why?--because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question, his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person--he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well- established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it.
A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology
All private goals are neurotic. The essential man comes to know, to feel, "I am not separate from the whole, and there is no need to seek and search for any destiny on my own. Things are happening, the world is moving--call it God...he is doing things. They are happening of their own accord. There is no need for me to make any struggle, any effort; there is no need for me to fight for anything. I can relax and be." The essential man is not a doer. The accidental man is a doer. The accidental man is, of course, then in anxiety, tension, stress, anguish, continuously sitting on a volcano. It can erupt any moment, because he lives in a world of uncertainty and believes as if it is certain. This creates tension in his be-ing: he knows deep down that nothing is certain.
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!
Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -- and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness. The whole work of meditation is to make you aware of all that is "mind" and dis identify yourself from it. That very separation is the greatest revolution that can happen to man. Now you can do and act on only that which makes you more joyous, fulfills you, gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty. But this is possible only if the master in you is awake. Right now the master is fast asleep. And the mind, the servant, is playing the role of master. And the servant is created by the outside world, it follows the outside world and its laws. Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. There is no blissfulness more precious than freedom, than being a master of your own destiny.
Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things.... Not everybody can be a painter - and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live! And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But everybody can be creative. Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I dont know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it - whatsoever it is
Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally--chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being, and remain conscious--and you are meditating. And then meditation is not separate from life. Whenever meditation is separate from life, something is wrong. It becomes life-negative. Then one starts thinking of going to a monastery or to a Himalayan cave. Then one wants to escape from life, because life seems to be a distraction from meditation. Life is not a distraction, life is an occasion for meditation.
Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.
I have gained many insights from simple quotations taken from masters of the mind. They reminded me of what it was I was doing again, they put things in a new light, in a new and often broader perspective. Reading different perceptions of the same process is also very enlightening and stimulating at times. I noticed that every time I 'accidentally' read a spiritual quote, it made perfect sense to the situation that I was in at that particular time in my life and it was often exactly what I needed.
In this world the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -- there are no distinctions.
You can love as many people as you want - that does not mean one day you will go bankrupt, and you will have to declare, 'Now I have no love.' You cannot go bankrupt as far as love is concerned
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Everything has a purpose in life...
My eyes are for the light, for the spring green, for the white snow, for the gray clouds and for the blue of the sky, for the stars of the night and for the incredible miracle that around me there are so many wonderful people.
My lips are for kissing, and my hands to be gentle and sensitive. My heart is for love, for warmth and for those who live in loneliness and chill.
Nothing is useless. Everything has its deep significance.
Then why I'm not happy?
Are my eyes closed?
My mouth is bitter?
My hands are 'claws' without heart?
Or my heart is dry?
If your life ever seems too difficult, try doing a little like a clown, who cries in his heart, and yet, laughing, is playing the violin for a child to heal his heart tears.
Funny quotes
When nothing goes right....go left
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. - Melanie Griffith
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain
Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected!
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson
What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere?
'Hold my purse.'
Men are like bank accounts.
Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.
What you call dog with no legs?
Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
He who laughs last didn't get it.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. - Melanie Griffith
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain
Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected!
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson
What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere?
'Hold my purse.'
Men are like bank accounts.
Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.
What you call dog with no legs?
Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
He who laughs last didn't get it.
Random Quotes
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted qrongly the first time - Viktor Frankl
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me - William Shakespeare
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why ....I dream of thinghs that never were and as why not?- Robert Kennedy
What is ment to be will always find its way
Information is not knowledge- Albert Einstein
The hardest thingh to see is in front of your eyes- Goethe
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand-Pascal
Thinghs do not change, we change-Henry David
Be the change that you wish to see in the world-Gandhi
Sometimes you just need to run away just to see who will come after you
Life isnt't about waiting for the storm to pass....it's about learning to dance in the rain
You never know haw strong you are... until being strong is the only choice you have
Men are moved by two levers only:fear and self interest
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me - William Shakespeare
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why ....I dream of thinghs that never were and as why not?- Robert Kennedy
What is ment to be will always find its way
Information is not knowledge- Albert Einstein
The hardest thingh to see is in front of your eyes- Goethe
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand-Pascal
Thinghs do not change, we change-Henry David
Be the change that you wish to see in the world-Gandhi
Sometimes you just need to run away just to see who will come after you
Life isnt't about waiting for the storm to pass....it's about learning to dance in the rain
You never know haw strong you are... until being strong is the only choice you have
Men are moved by two levers only:fear and self interest
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
All right, then, I'll go to hell. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
We are all alike, on the inside.
We have the best government that money can buy.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
When in doubt tell the truth.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
All right, then, I'll go to hell. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
We are all alike, on the inside.
We have the best government that money can buy.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
When in doubt tell the truth.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
If.....
If you can find beauty in the colors of a small flower, then you still have hope... If you can find pleasure in the movement of a butterfly, then you still have hope... If the smile of a child can still warm your heart, then you still have hope... If you can see the good in other people, then you still have hope... If the rain breaking on a roof top can still lull you to sleep, then you still have hope... If the sight of a rainbow still makes you stop and stare in wonder, then you still have hope... If the soft fur of a favored pet still feels pleasant under your fingertips, then you still have hope... If you meet new people with a trace of excitement and optimism, then you still have hope... If you give people the benefit of a doubt, then you still have hope... If you still offer your hand in friendship to others that have touched your life, then you still have hope... If receiving an unexpected card or letter still brings a pleasant surprise, then you still have hope... If the suffering of others still fills you with pain and frustration, then you still have hope... If you refuse to let a friendship die, or accept that it must end, then you still have hope... If you look forward to a time or place of quiet and reflection, then you still have hope... If you still buy the ornaments, put up the Christmas tree or cook the turkey, then you still have hope... If you still watch love stories or want the endings to be happy, then you still have hope... If you can look to the past and smile, then you still have hope.... If, when faced with the bad, when told everything is futile, you can still look up and end the conversation with the phrase... yeah....BUT. . Then you still have hope... Hope is such a marvelous thing. It bends, it twists, it sometimes hides, but rarely does it break... It sustains us when nothing else can... It gives us reason to continue and courage to move ahead, when we tell ourselves we'd rather give in... HOPE
A capacity for love
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
There is in each of us, no matter how humble, a capacity for love. Even if our lives have not taken the course we had envisioned, even if we are less than the shape of our dreams, we are part of the human family. Somewhere, in the most inconsequential corners of our lives, is the opportunity for love.
If I am blind, I can run my hand across the back of a shell and celebrate beauty. If I have no legs, I can sit in quiet wonder before the restless murmurs of the sea. If I am wounded in spirit, I can reach out my hand to those who are hurting. If I am lonely, I can go among those who are desperate for love. There is no tragedy or injustice so great, no life so small and inconsequential, that we cannot bear witness to the light in the quiet acts and hidden moments of our days.
And who can say which of these acts and moments will make a difference? The universe is a vast and magical membrane of meaning, stretching across time and space, and it is not given to us to know her secrets and her ways. Perhaps we were placed here to meet the challenge of a single moment; perhaps the touch we give will cause the touch that will change the world.
There is in each of us, no matter how humble, a capacity for love. Even if our lives have not taken the course we had envisioned, even if we are less than the shape of our dreams, we are part of the human family. Somewhere, in the most inconsequential corners of our lives, is the opportunity for love.
If I am blind, I can run my hand across the back of a shell and celebrate beauty. If I have no legs, I can sit in quiet wonder before the restless murmurs of the sea. If I am wounded in spirit, I can reach out my hand to those who are hurting. If I am lonely, I can go among those who are desperate for love. There is no tragedy or injustice so great, no life so small and inconsequential, that we cannot bear witness to the light in the quiet acts and hidden moments of our days.
And who can say which of these acts and moments will make a difference? The universe is a vast and magical membrane of meaning, stretching across time and space, and it is not given to us to know her secrets and her ways. Perhaps we were placed here to meet the challenge of a single moment; perhaps the touch we give will cause the touch that will change the world.
Coco Chanel
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
A woman has the age she deserves.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
My friends, there are no friends.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Elegance is refusal.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same. l
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Great loves too must be endured.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
A woman has the age she deserves.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
My friends, there are no friends.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Elegance is refusal.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same. l
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Great loves too must be endured.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Harry Ford
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Any colour - so long as it's black.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
History is more or less bunk.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Any colour - so long as it's black.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
History is more or less bunk.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Harisson Frod
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
I've never wanted to be the boss.
If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
I've never wanted to be the boss.
If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
Declaration of principles-Paulo Coelho
] All human beings are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.
2] Each human being has been granted two courses of action: that of deed and that of contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
3] Each human being has been granted two qualities: power and gift. Power drives a person to meet his/her destiny, his gift obliges that person to share with others which is good in him/her. A human being must know when to use power, and when to use compassion.
4] Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he/she who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse – and others will always choose for him/her.
5] Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.
6] Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt – provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him/her.
7] Each human being has his own Personal Legend to be fulfilled, and this is the reason he is in the world. The Personal Legend is manifest in his enthusiasm for what she/he does.
Single paragraph – the Personal Legend may be abandoned for a certain time, provided one does not forget it and returns as soon as possible.
8] Each man has a feminine side, and each woman has a masculine side. It is necessary to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition objectively.
9] Each human being must know two languages: the language of society and the language of the omens. The first serves for communication with others. The second serves to interpret messages from God.
10] Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content – not necessarily that which makes others content.
11] Each human being must keep alight within him the sacred flame of madness. And must behave like a normal person.
12] The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one’s neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.
Paragraph 1 – we shall love our adversaries, but not make alliances with them. They are placed in our way to test our sword, and deserve the respect of our fight.
Paragraph 2 – we shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.
12A] We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.
14] Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.
15] The impossible is possible
2] Each human being has been granted two courses of action: that of deed and that of contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
3] Each human being has been granted two qualities: power and gift. Power drives a person to meet his/her destiny, his gift obliges that person to share with others which is good in him/her. A human being must know when to use power, and when to use compassion.
4] Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he/she who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse – and others will always choose for him/her.
5] Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.
6] Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt – provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him/her.
7] Each human being has his own Personal Legend to be fulfilled, and this is the reason he is in the world. The Personal Legend is manifest in his enthusiasm for what she/he does.
Single paragraph – the Personal Legend may be abandoned for a certain time, provided one does not forget it and returns as soon as possible.
8] Each man has a feminine side, and each woman has a masculine side. It is necessary to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition objectively.
9] Each human being must know two languages: the language of society and the language of the omens. The first serves for communication with others. The second serves to interpret messages from God.
10] Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content – not necessarily that which makes others content.
11] Each human being must keep alight within him the sacred flame of madness. And must behave like a normal person.
12] The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one’s neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.
Paragraph 1 – we shall love our adversaries, but not make alliances with them. They are placed in our way to test our sword, and deserve the respect of our fight.
Paragraph 2 – we shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.
12A] We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.
14] Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.
15] The impossible is possible
Paulo Coelho
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it
You are what you do, and not what you think you should do
Enjoy life but be attentive. Don't think there are no beasts just because the forest is silent
Don't allow your mind tell your heart what to do.The mind gives up easily
Fear of failure leads to failure
Curiosity kills the cat, but helps the tiger to live
The art of sex is the art of controlled abandon
Don’t think it can’t happen, because it can.
I may not recorgnize God’s hand each day, but I know it's there
I know many people who are going nowhere at an alarming speed
The simple things are the most extraordinary, but only a pure heartl can recognize them
Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself
You may not know your path, but you must know what you don't want in life
Each man has a feminine side, and each woman has a masculine side. It is necessary to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition objectively.
Impossible is possible
Life: each note leaves a memory, but only the melody tells the whole story
Sex and the City
“I'm homeless! I'll be a bag lady! A Fendi bag lady, but a bag lady!”- Carrie
“I like my money where I can see it, hanging in my closet.”- Carrie Bradshaw
“As we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal will find herself a little lost. And when that happens, I guess she has to let go of the coulda, shoulda, woulda, buckle up and just keep going.”- Carrie Bradshaw
“What's really going on here is sex. Good, old-fashioned, eager-to-please, do-what-I-tell-you-to sex.”- Miranda
“There's two kinds of guys. The ones who hold your hand and the ones that f**k you.” – Samantha Jones
“I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.”
“Don’t play hard to get with a man who’s hard to get.” – Samantha Jones
'It took me a really long time to get here, but I’m here. Carrie, you’re the one.’ – Mr. Big
"I can’t color enough, I would color all day every day If I had my way, I would use every crayon in my box.”- Samantha Jones
‘Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.’
"Think about it. If you are single, after graduation there isn’t one occasion where people celebrate you … Hallmark doesn’t make a “congratulations, you didn’t marry the wrong guy” card. And where’s the flatware for going on vacation alone?" -Carrie Bradshaw
"There isn't enough wall space in New York City to hang all of my exes. Let me tell you, a lot of them were hung." - Samantha
Monday, August 30, 2010
With time...J.L.Borges
After a while, man learns to perceive the subtile difference between to support and to chain a soul and learns that love does not mean that you sleep with someone and having someone next to you is not synonymous with safety and so, man begins to learn ... that kisses are not contracts and presents are not promises and so the man begins to accept defeats with his head up and eyes open and learn to build all the roads based on today and now, for the land of 'tomorrow 'is too uncertain for plans ... and the future always has a lot of alternatives, which stop halfway.
And after a while, man learns that if too much, even the life-giving warmth of the sun, burns.
So he begins to plant his own garden and beautifies his own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring him flowers, and learns that really can support, as indeed has the power, that's really valuable, and humans learns, learns ,... and learns each day.
With time you learn that to stay with someone because it offers a good future means that sooner or later you will want to go back to the past.
With time you understand that only one who is able to love you with your flaws, without trying to change you, you can bring all the happiness you want.
With time you understand that true friends are not counted and the one who does not fight for them sooner or later it will be surrounded by false friends. With time you learn that words said in a moment of anger, can continue to make harm the rest of your life .
With time you learn that the excuse is something anyone can do, but forgiveness it is something really big hearts can do.
With time you understand that if you seriously injured a friend, is very likely that his friendship will never be the same intensity.
In time you realize that although you are happy with your friends in a day you will cry for those you let them go.
In time you realize that every experience lived with each being, will not ever happen again.
In time you realize who humiliates and despises a human being, sooner or later will suffer the same humiliation and contempt, but multiplied square.
With time you learn that if youhurry or force things to happen, in the end, they will not be as expected.
In time you realize that in reality, the future was not the best but when you are living right at the moment.
With time you will see that although you feel happy with who you are around, you will miss the ones that were with you yesterday and they went and are no longer here ..
With time you will learn that trying to forgive or being forgiven , to say that you love, or that you miss someone, to say you need, to say that you want to be friends, before a tomb, has no sense.
But unfortunately, all is learned only with time ...
And after a while, man learns that if too much, even the life-giving warmth of the sun, burns.
So he begins to plant his own garden and beautifies his own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring him flowers, and learns that really can support, as indeed has the power, that's really valuable, and humans learns, learns ,... and learns each day.
With time you learn that to stay with someone because it offers a good future means that sooner or later you will want to go back to the past.
With time you understand that only one who is able to love you with your flaws, without trying to change you, you can bring all the happiness you want.
With time you understand that true friends are not counted and the one who does not fight for them sooner or later it will be surrounded by false friends. With time you learn that words said in a moment of anger, can continue to make harm the rest of your life .
With time you learn that the excuse is something anyone can do, but forgiveness it is something really big hearts can do.
With time you understand that if you seriously injured a friend, is very likely that his friendship will never be the same intensity.
In time you realize that although you are happy with your friends in a day you will cry for those you let them go.
In time you realize that every experience lived with each being, will not ever happen again.
In time you realize who humiliates and despises a human being, sooner or later will suffer the same humiliation and contempt, but multiplied square.
With time you learn that if youhurry or force things to happen, in the end, they will not be as expected.
In time you realize that in reality, the future was not the best but when you are living right at the moment.
With time you will see that although you feel happy with who you are around, you will miss the ones that were with you yesterday and they went and are no longer here ..
With time you will learn that trying to forgive or being forgiven , to say that you love, or that you miss someone, to say you need, to say that you want to be friends, before a tomb, has no sense.
But unfortunately, all is learned only with time ...
Paradoxul vremurilor noastre
Paradoxul vremurilor noastre in istorie este ca avem cladiri
mai mari, dar suflete mai mici; autostrazi mai largi,
dar minti mai înguste. Cheltuim mai mult, dar avem mai putin;
cumparam mai mult, dar ne bucuram mai putin.
Avem case mai mari, dar familii mai mici, Avem mai multe
accesorii, dar mai putin timp; avem mai multe functii, dar mai
putina minte, mai multe cunostinte, dar mai putina judecata; mai multi experti si totusi mai multe probleme, mai multa
medicina, dar mai putina sanatate.
Bem prea mult, fumam prea mult, cheltuim prea nesabuit, radem prea putin, conducem prea repede, ne enervam prea tare, ne culcam prea târziu, ne sculam prea obositi, citim prea putin, ne uitam prea mult la televizor si ne rugam prea rar.
Ne-am multiplicat averile, dar ne-am redus valorile.
Vorbim prea mult, iubim prea rar si uram prea des. Am invatat cum sa ne castigam existenta, dar nu cum sa ne facem o viata.
Am adaugat ani vietii si nu viata anilor. Am ajuns pana la luna si inapoi dar avem probleme cand trebuie sa traversam strada sa
facem cunostinta cu un vecin. Am cucerit spatiul cosmic, dar nu si
pe cel interior. Am facut lucruri mai mari, dar nu mai bune. Am curatat aerul, dar am poluat solul. Am cucerit atomul,dar nu si
prejudecatile noastre.
Scriem mai mult, dar invatam mai putin. Planuim mai multe, dar realizam mai putine. Am invatat sa ne grabim, dar nu si sa asteptam. Am construit mai multe calculatoare: sa detina mai multe informatii, sa produca mai multe copii ca niciodata,dar comunicam din ce în ce mai putin.
Acestea sunt vremurile fast-food-urilor si digestiei
incete; oamenilor mari si caracterelor meschine; profiturilor
rapide si relatiilor superficiale.
Acestea sunt vremurile în care avem doua venituri, dar mai multe divorturi, case mai frumoase, dar camine destramate.
Acestea sunt vremurile în care avem excursii rapide,scutece de unica folosinta, moralitate de doi bani, aventuri de-o noapte, corpuri supraponderale si pastile care iti induc orice stare de la bucurie la liniste si la moarte. Sunt niste vremuri in care sunt prea multe vitrine, dar nimic in interior. Vremuri in care tehnologia iti poate aduce aceasta scrisoare si in care poti decide fie sa impartasesti acest punct de vedere, fie sa stergi acest mesaj.
Aminteste-ti sa-ti petreci timp cu persoanele iubite,pentru
ca nu vor fi langa tine o eternitate.
Aminteste-ti sa spui o vorba buna copilului care te venereaza, pentru ca acel copil va creste curand si va pleca de langa tine.
Aminteste-ti sa-l imbratisezi cu dragoste pe cel de langa tine pentru ca aceasta este singura comoara pe care o poti oferi cu inima si nu te costa nimic.
Aminteste-ti sa spui "TE IUBESC" partenerului si persoanelor pe care le indragesti, dar mai ales sa o spui din inima. O sarutare si o imbratisare vor alina durerea atunci cand sunt sincere.
Aminteste-ti sa-i tii pe cei dragi de mana si sa pretuiesti
acel moment pentru ca intr-o zi acea persoana nu va mai fi langa tine.
Fa-ti timp sa iubesti, fa-ti timp sa vorbesti, fa-ti timp sa impartasesti gandurile pretioase pe care le ai.
mai mari, dar suflete mai mici; autostrazi mai largi,
dar minti mai înguste. Cheltuim mai mult, dar avem mai putin;
cumparam mai mult, dar ne bucuram mai putin.
Avem case mai mari, dar familii mai mici, Avem mai multe
accesorii, dar mai putin timp; avem mai multe functii, dar mai
putina minte, mai multe cunostinte, dar mai putina judecata; mai multi experti si totusi mai multe probleme, mai multa
medicina, dar mai putina sanatate.
Bem prea mult, fumam prea mult, cheltuim prea nesabuit, radem prea putin, conducem prea repede, ne enervam prea tare, ne culcam prea târziu, ne sculam prea obositi, citim prea putin, ne uitam prea mult la televizor si ne rugam prea rar.
Ne-am multiplicat averile, dar ne-am redus valorile.
Vorbim prea mult, iubim prea rar si uram prea des. Am invatat cum sa ne castigam existenta, dar nu cum sa ne facem o viata.
Am adaugat ani vietii si nu viata anilor. Am ajuns pana la luna si inapoi dar avem probleme cand trebuie sa traversam strada sa
facem cunostinta cu un vecin. Am cucerit spatiul cosmic, dar nu si
pe cel interior. Am facut lucruri mai mari, dar nu mai bune. Am curatat aerul, dar am poluat solul. Am cucerit atomul,dar nu si
prejudecatile noastre.
Scriem mai mult, dar invatam mai putin. Planuim mai multe, dar realizam mai putine. Am invatat sa ne grabim, dar nu si sa asteptam. Am construit mai multe calculatoare: sa detina mai multe informatii, sa produca mai multe copii ca niciodata,dar comunicam din ce în ce mai putin.
Acestea sunt vremurile fast-food-urilor si digestiei
incete; oamenilor mari si caracterelor meschine; profiturilor
rapide si relatiilor superficiale.
Acestea sunt vremurile în care avem doua venituri, dar mai multe divorturi, case mai frumoase, dar camine destramate.
Acestea sunt vremurile în care avem excursii rapide,scutece de unica folosinta, moralitate de doi bani, aventuri de-o noapte, corpuri supraponderale si pastile care iti induc orice stare de la bucurie la liniste si la moarte. Sunt niste vremuri in care sunt prea multe vitrine, dar nimic in interior. Vremuri in care tehnologia iti poate aduce aceasta scrisoare si in care poti decide fie sa impartasesti acest punct de vedere, fie sa stergi acest mesaj.
Aminteste-ti sa-ti petreci timp cu persoanele iubite,pentru
ca nu vor fi langa tine o eternitate.
Aminteste-ti sa spui o vorba buna copilului care te venereaza, pentru ca acel copil va creste curand si va pleca de langa tine.
Aminteste-ti sa-l imbratisezi cu dragoste pe cel de langa tine pentru ca aceasta este singura comoara pe care o poti oferi cu inima si nu te costa nimic.
Aminteste-ti sa spui "TE IUBESC" partenerului si persoanelor pe care le indragesti, dar mai ales sa o spui din inima. O sarutare si o imbratisare vor alina durerea atunci cand sunt sincere.
Aminteste-ti sa-i tii pe cei dragi de mana si sa pretuiesti
acel moment pentru ca intr-o zi acea persoana nu va mai fi langa tine.
Fa-ti timp sa iubesti, fa-ti timp sa vorbesti, fa-ti timp sa impartasesti gandurile pretioase pe care le ai.
Restul e doar nisip
Un profesor de filosofie statea in fata studentilor sai cu cáteva obiecte.
Cánd a inceput cursul, fara sa spuna un cuvánt, a luat un borcan mare si a inceput sa-l umple cu pietre cu diametrul de aproximativ 5 cm. Apoi i-a intebat pe studenti daca borcanul este plin.
Au fost cu toti de acord ca este plin!
Apoi, a luat o cutie cu pietricele si le-a turnat in borcan, scuturándu-l usor. Desigur ca acestea s-au rostogolit printre pietrele mari si a umplut spatiile ramase libere. Apoi i-a intrebat din nou daca borcanul este plin.
Au fost iarasi de acord ca este plin! Si au rás.
Apoi profesorul a luat o cutie cu nisip si l-a turnat in borcan, scuturándu-l usor. Desigur, nisipul a umplut spatiul ramas liber.
Acum, spuse profesorul vreau sa recunoasteti ca aceasta este viata voastra.
Pietrele mai mari sunt lucrurile importante: familia, partenerul, sanatatea si copiii vostri, lucruri cu care chiar daca totul este pierdut si ati ramas numai cu ele viata voastra tot ar fi completa.
Pietricelele sunt celelalte lucruri care conteaza: slujba, casa si masina.
Nisipul reprezinta lucrurile mici care completeaza restul.
Daca puneti in borcan mai intái nisipul, nu mai ramáne loc pentru pietrele mari si pentru pietricele.
La fel se desfasoara si viata voastra: daca va consumati timpul si energia cu lucrurile mici, nu veti avea spatiu penru lucrurile importante. Fiti atenti la lucrurile care sunt esentiale pentru fericirea voastra.
Jucati-va cu copiii vostri, faceti-va timp pentru controale medicale, duceti-va perechea la dans.
Va va ramáne mereu destul timp pentru a merge la serviciu, sa faceti curat in casa, sa dati o petrecere sau sa va duceti gunoiul. Aveti grija de pietrele mari in primul ránd, de lucrurile care intradevar conteaza.
Traim ca sa fim fericiti, suntem fericiti daca iubim si, iubim daca suntem iubiti!
In viata nu sunt importante persoanele din viata noastra, ci relatiile pe care le construim cu ei!
RESTUL E DOAR NISIP!
Cánd a inceput cursul, fara sa spuna un cuvánt, a luat un borcan mare si a inceput sa-l umple cu pietre cu diametrul de aproximativ 5 cm. Apoi i-a intebat pe studenti daca borcanul este plin.
Au fost cu toti de acord ca este plin!
Apoi, a luat o cutie cu pietricele si le-a turnat in borcan, scuturándu-l usor. Desigur ca acestea s-au rostogolit printre pietrele mari si a umplut spatiile ramase libere. Apoi i-a intrebat din nou daca borcanul este plin.
Au fost iarasi de acord ca este plin! Si au rás.
Apoi profesorul a luat o cutie cu nisip si l-a turnat in borcan, scuturándu-l usor. Desigur, nisipul a umplut spatiul ramas liber.
Acum, spuse profesorul vreau sa recunoasteti ca aceasta este viata voastra.
Pietrele mai mari sunt lucrurile importante: familia, partenerul, sanatatea si copiii vostri, lucruri cu care chiar daca totul este pierdut si ati ramas numai cu ele viata voastra tot ar fi completa.
Pietricelele sunt celelalte lucruri care conteaza: slujba, casa si masina.
Nisipul reprezinta lucrurile mici care completeaza restul.
Daca puneti in borcan mai intái nisipul, nu mai ramáne loc pentru pietrele mari si pentru pietricele.
La fel se desfasoara si viata voastra: daca va consumati timpul si energia cu lucrurile mici, nu veti avea spatiu penru lucrurile importante. Fiti atenti la lucrurile care sunt esentiale pentru fericirea voastra.
Jucati-va cu copiii vostri, faceti-va timp pentru controale medicale, duceti-va perechea la dans.
Va va ramáne mereu destul timp pentru a merge la serviciu, sa faceti curat in casa, sa dati o petrecere sau sa va duceti gunoiul. Aveti grija de pietrele mari in primul ránd, de lucrurile care intradevar conteaza.
Traim ca sa fim fericiti, suntem fericiti daca iubim si, iubim daca suntem iubiti!
In viata nu sunt importante persoanele din viata noastra, ci relatiile pe care le construim cu ei!
RESTUL E DOAR NISIP!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Napoleon Bonaparte
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Emily Bronte
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Thomas Mann
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
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