“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
The most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
In 20 years, you will be more dissapointed by what you didn’t do than by what you did.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
That’s all. Which was your favorite?
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” – Albert Einstein
For every dark night there’s a brighter day. – Tupac Amaru Shakur
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Evil is whatever distracts.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
‘Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.’
‘We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.’
‘Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.’
‘Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.’
‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.’
“My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.” – Charlie Chaplin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
“I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I’m in the wrong building.”
“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?”
“No problem is so formidable that you can’t walk away from it.”
“There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.”
“Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh ! There’s so little hope for advancement.”
“That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another…. ”
“I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.”
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’”
“Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night”.”
Let’s celebrate together Diego Riviera’s birthday, trying to share best Diego Riviera Quotes.
“If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.”
“Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman’s body and of female sexuality.” (talking of his wife Frida Kahlo)
“Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.”
“Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did.”
“I’ve never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.”
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
When you respond to life, that’s positive; when you react to life, that’s negative.
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down.Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.