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A poor person is not someone who has little but one who needs infinitely more, and wish, and wish, more and more. — Epicurus, Seneca, and the Aymara
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. —Bible
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? —Mark 8:36
What we did before for the love of God, nowadays we do it for the love of money, which means, for the love of what gives us the sensation of highest power and good conscience? —Nietzsche, Aurora
I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots. — Albert Einstein
Don't measure your life by your failures, but your success. —Serge Demyanenko
What you give is yours forever. What you keep, you lose.
—Monsieur Ibrahim
The
individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by
the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning
yourself. — Rudyard Kipling
If you live comfortably, there must be more important things in life than money. —Serge Demyanenko
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. —Plato
He saw people living in a childish or animal-like way, which he both loved and despised. He saw them toiling, saw them suffer and grow gray about things that to him did not seem worth the price—for money, small pleasures and trivial honors. he saw them scold and hurt each other; he saw them lament over pains at which the Samana laughs, and suffer at deprivations which a Samana does not feel. —Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (translated by Hilda Rosner)
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
— Albert Camus
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Rudyard Kipling
Most people would rather die than think; in fact they do so. — Bertand Russell
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. — Rabindranath Tagore
Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. — Matthew 5:37
• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
• The only way to deal with an un-free world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
• I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
— Albert Camus
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? —Mark 8:36
What we did before for the love of God, nowadays we do it for the love of money, which means, for the love of what gives us the sensation of highest power and good conscience? —Nietzsche, Aurora
A rose is a rose is a rose. — Gertrude Stein
...estar contigo o no estar contigo, es la medida de mi tiempo... — Jorge Luis Borges
... be with you or without you, is the extent of my time ... (google translation)
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. —Plato
Smiling is what makes you happy.
When you dance, your heart sings.
Slowness is the key to happiness.
What you give is yours forever. What you keep, you lose.
—Monsieur Ibrahim
I refuse to lower my standards to accommodate those who refuse to raise theirs. — Steve Gamlin
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. — Bible
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. — Lord Byron
Aliud est discere aliud videri sibi didicisse. — Augustine
One thing is to know, another thing is to believe to know.
Se c’è l’Amore tutto è utile, se manca l’Amore tutto il resto è inutile. — Agostino
If there is Love, all is useful; if there is no love, everything else is useless.
I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots. — Albert Einstein
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? — T.S. Eliot, The Rock (1934)
The great ages did not contain more talent. They wasted less. — T.S. Eliot
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people. — Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, 1936
The greater the suffering is never to have suffered... — Pablo Neruda
(O maior dos sofrimentos é nunca ter sofrido.)
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. — Irving Berlin
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. — Irving Berlin
Talent is only the starting point. — Irving Berlin
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. — Henry Miller
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The worse thing you might learn about love is to realize that it was not worth all the tears. — Sergio Caldarella (Dr. Divago)
Fools are those who love, but without their foolishness nothing would ever be real. — Sergio Caldarella (Dr. Divago)
Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars. — Anonymous
Expecting heaven is what hell is all about. — Peter McWilliams
Everything that I know, I know only because I love. — Lev Tolstoj
When love is not madness, it is not love. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still. — Lord Byron
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. — Kahlil Gibran
For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment. — Kahlil Gibran
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. — Kahlil Gibran
Much of your pain is self-chosen. — Kahlil Gibran
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. — Kahlil Gibran
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. — Kahlil Gibran
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. — Kahlil Gibran
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words many indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. — Kahlil Gibran
If a teacher is indeed wise s/he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. — Kahlil Gibran
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind. — Kahlil Gibran
A poor person is not someone who has little but one who needs infinitely more, and wish, and wish, more and more. — Epicurus, Seneca, and the Aymara
Don't measure your life by your failures, but your success. —Serge Demyanenko
• The harder the struggle, the sweeter the prize.
• Giving gets more rewards than taking.
• Fame is fleeting, love lasts forever.
• The loving touch of a woman is more precious than all earthly riches.
• I would rather be taken for a fool than know myself as a pompous ass.
— Serge P. C. Demyanenko
Blessed
are the weird people – - poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters,
troubadours – - for they teach us to see the world through different
eyes. — Jacob Nordby
