Aici poti pune ceva din suflet (al tau sau al celorlalti), orice citat si orice fraza care inseamna ceva mai mult decat simple cuvinte, pentru tine. Eu am sa pun unul in fiecare zi...
"Trebuie sa faci intotdeauna ceva. Cand crezi cu adevarat in ceva, trebuie sa actionezi. A te multumi sa vorbesti despre actiune este ca si cum te-ai lauda dinainte cu tablourile pe care ai de gand sa le pictezi. E de cel mai ingrozitor prost gust." - John Fowles - Colectionarul. Un indemn care sper sa te motiveze sa-ti lasi amprenta aici...
Monday, April 10, 2006
"Cuvinte intelepte - Quote(s) of the day"
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
-- Baltasar Gracian
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
"It's sad that, in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers"
"Pleasures too safely enjoyed lack zest"
"We suffer in love, but you love to suffer"
"Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you"
"Love is a game where both players cheat"
All quotes from My Dying Bride lyrics, written by Aaron Stainthorpe.
In my world
Love is for poets
Never the famous balcony scene
Just a dying faith
On the heaven's gate
"Numai fiindca ai ochii deschisi crezi ca poti vedea?"
Goethe
"...dar ce fel de idiot sunt acum, cind eu insumi mi-am dat seama ca lumea ma considera idiot..."
(dostoievski,idiotul)
"unii se nasc dupa moarte"
Nietzche
"Dragostea plateste totul,rascumpara totul"
- F.M.Dostoievski - "Fratii Karamazov"
"Satana sum et nihil humani a me alineum puto!"
- F.M.Dostoievski - "Fratii Karamazov"
"Blestemul lumii acesteia...sa crezi ca te inchini la soare,dar de fapt ai adorat scanteia..."
- M.Eminescu - "Pierduta pt mine..."
"We know what we are,but we know not what we can be..."
- Shakespeare - "Hamlet"
"Le bonheur consiste dans l'imagination de le poseder."
- Ib -
"Prostii se insoara intotdeuna,nebunii cateodata,inteleptul nicicand...."
- M.Eminescu -
"Philosofia medetur animis."
- Cicero -
"Prin mine treci spre locul de durere,/prin mine treci spre vesnica jelire,/Prin mine treci spre gloata care piere,/Mi-a fost dreptatea-ndemn spre faurire:/Puterea sfanta m-a zidit,instanta/In cer,suprema minte si iubire,/Etern traiesc si cate sunt substanta/'naintea mea etern au fost create,/Voi,ce intrati,lasati orice speranta."
- Dante Aligheri- "infernul"
"Le silence eternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie."
- Blaise Pascal -
"In augnt that tries the heart how few withstand the truth!"
- Lord Byron -
"Cine iubeste,acela se si teme;iubirea este un vas al suferintei;in iubire isi au radcina suferintele;renunta la ele si vei fi fericit."
- Ib -
"Totdeauna iubirea da in cele di urma suferinta."
- Niebelunge -
"Iubirea ucide spiritul."
- Calderon -
"Pentru a iubi pe oameni,trebuie din cand in cand sa-i parasim."
- Giovanni Papini -
"Unele naturi nu pot iubi pe de o parte,fara a uri pe de alta."
- Victor Hugo - "Mizerabilii"
"Iubirea este primejdia celui mai solitar..."
- Ib -
"Tocmai de aceea i s-a dat omului,in luntrea sa fragila,vasla in mana,pentru ca sa nu asculte de capriciul valurilor,ci de vointa judecatii sale."
- Goethe -
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
-- Oscar Arias Sanchez
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
-- Sister Mary Rose McGeady
" Love is always pacient and kind, is never jealous, is never rude or selfish, does not take offence and it is not resentfull. Love takes no pleasure in other people sins, the delight and the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. "
- " A walk to remember " -
" Pentru el nu sunt decat un specimen dintr-un rand de fluturi. Cand incerc sa zburatacesc afara din rand, incepe sa ma urasca. Se presupune ca trebuie sa fiu moarta, infipta in insectar, veznic aceeasi, vesnic frumoasa. Stie ca parte din frumusetea mea se datoreaza faptului ca sunt vie, dar el moarta ma vrea. Vrea sa fiu o moarta vie. Azi am simtit-o foarte clar. Am simtit ca prin faptul ca sunt vie si schimbatoare, ca am o inteligenta a mea, cam am diverse stari de spirit am ajuns sa ii devin insuportabila.
E solid; imuabil; cu o vointa de fier. Intr-o zi mi-a aratat ceee ce el numeste " sticla-de-omorat ". Sunt prizoniera in aceasta sticla. Ma zbat lovindu-mi aripile de peretii ei. Dar pot vedea prin ea si continuu sa cred ca pot sa evadez. Inca mai sper. Dar totul nu e decat o iluzie.
Un perete rotund de sticla groasa.
John Fowles - " Colectionarul "
Souffrance... superiorite de l'homme sur Dieu
Today's quotes are rather motivational:
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
- Dorothea Brande
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born American Physicist
Don't plan. Live it up:
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish Journalist, Writer, Dramatist
"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." - Martha Washington (1731-1802) American First Lady (1789-97)
"Invata-ma arta de a crea insule de nemiscare,in care sa pot aduna frumusetea lucrurilor inconjuratoare:norii,copacii,sunetul muzicii..."
Marion Stroud
"Pacea sufletului nu omoara speranta sau aventura,munca ori dragostea.Ci doar curge molcom prin peisajul vietii noastre ocupate ,neauzit si puternic;luminos si bland.Intarindu-ne-n fapta si visare" Pam Brown
"Multi alearga dupa fericire asemenea distratului care-si cauta palaria pe care o are in mana ori pe cap" James Sharp
"Fa-ti timp sa fii prietenos-este calea catre fericire.
Fa-ti timp sa visezi-si leaga-ti calul de o stea.
Fa-ti timp sa iubesti si sa fii iubit-este privilegiul zeilor.
Fa-ti timp sa privesti de jur imprejur-ziua e prea scurta pentru a fi egoist.
Fa-ti timp sa razi-asta e muzica sufletului." Veche rugaciune englezeasca
"Cunoasterea e mandra cu cate a invatat.Intelepciunea stie cate mai sunt de aflat" William Cowper
"Ce face viata o dulceata e ca se-ntampla o data in viata" Emily Dickinson
"Nu exista scurtaturi pentru a ajunge in locurile frumoase" Beverly Sills
"Cand nu ti-au ramas decat doi banuti,cumpara o paine de-un ban si un crin cu celalalt" proverb chinezesc
"Toata frumusetea este o bucurie si o avere pentru eternitate..." Oscar Wilde
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it doesn't mean it's useless. (Thomas A. Edison)
My idea of an agreable person is a person who agrees with me. (Benjamin Disareli)
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. (Thomas Jefferson)
Curiosity is the key to creativity. (Akio Morita)
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. (Pierre Corneille)
Respect yourself and other will respect you. (Confucius)
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. (George Carlin)
I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education. (Wilson Mizner)
In copilarie, cuvintele ne dor, puterea fiecaruia este imensa, si nu avem decat doua solutii: cei mai curajosi dintre noi infrunta cuvintele si ies victoriosi, pe cand ceilalti raman tacuti, sufleteste, pentru restul vietii lor - Eu
"Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to contemplation of the truth." - Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) Polish Religious Leader
Prieten nu este cel care zice "Ia-o inainte!" ci cel care zice "Vin cu tine!"
Dragostea este o bogatie care nu se vinde nici nu se cumpara ci se da.
Nici o persoana nu iti merita lacrimile iar cea care le merita nu te va face sa plangi.
Adevarata lacrima nu este cea care izvoraste din ochiul tau si se prelinge pe fata ta ci cea care izvoraste din inima ta si se prelinge prin sufletul tau.
Creeaza absenta ta pentru ca cineva sa-ti simta lipsa dar nu prelungi prea mult acea absenta pentru ca acel cineva sa nu simta ca poate trai fara tine.
Cand ceva care va place se termina sau pur si simplu pleaca amintiti-va ca frunzele de toamna nu cad pentru ca vor ci pentru ca a sosit momentul.
Trebuie sa credem ca totul este pentru totdeauna fara sa stim ca "pentru totdeauna" mereu se termina.
"how happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
the world forgetting by the world forgot
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned" (Alexander Pope)
And now a few words from the visionary Steven Wright:
If your travelling at the speed of light, what happens when you turn your headlights on?
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
something.
Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many
is research.
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never
tried before.
Change is inevitable....except from vending machines.
A fool and his money are soon partying.
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of
payments.
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
Borrow money from pessimists-they don't expect it back.
Half the people you know are below average.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
"Visele se materializeaza in fapte reale.Faptele genereaza iarasi vise,iar interdependenta lor da nastere celei mai inalte forme de a trai" Anais Nin
"Viata nu trebuie folosita pentru a face,viata trebuie folosita pentru
a fi " Lao-Tzu
"In momentele cele mai tacute se produc experientele cele mai profunde" Nietzche
"Sa nu ai tot ce iti doresti este o conditie a fericirii" Bertrand Russell
"Nu ne sta in putere sa facem lucruri uriase-ci numai lucruri mici, cu iubire uriasa" Maica Tereza
"Numai cel care transforma vocea vantului in cantec,imblanzind-o prin propria iubire este cu adevarat deosebit" Kahlil Gibran
"Bunatatea este ca un bumerang,vrei s-o daruiesti dar ea se intoarce" Mark Ortman
"Fii tu insuti schimbarea pe care o doresti lumii" Mahatma Gandhi
"Fericirea este aidoma unui fluture,de neprins atunci cand il vanezi,dar care daca stai linistit poate da peste tine" Nathaniel Hawthorne
Citatele de azi se refera la sanse, oportunitati:
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
-- Wayne Gretzky
"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English Essayist, Novelist, Journalist, Poet
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
-- Frederick Douglass
Citate despre viata... ("The secret of life"):
"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal
(1623-1662) French Scientist, Religious Philosopher -> Autoanaliza, sau linistea, reduc starea de confuzie sau pierdere de sine...
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
-- William Goldman, "The Princess Bride" - Nice movie!
I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm
here.
-- Payne Stewart
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
-- William James
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself." - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Author, Lyric Poet, Dramatist
One of my favs...
"..In fapta lumea-i visul sufletului nostru.Nu exista nici timp,nici spatiu-ele sunt numai in sufletul nostru.Trecut si viitor e in sufletul meu ,ca padurea intr-un sambure de ghinda,si infinitul asemene,ca reflectarea cerului instelat intr-un strop de roua." Mihai Eminescu,Sarmanul Dionis
dupa ce am citit tot ce-a fost scris aici ma simt luminat si trist. toti stiti atat de multe, si totusi, cati dintre voi le si intelegeti? think at that.
"Death is when life turns into art"
[Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You]
"Seek the gate within yourself,
More I shall not say, beware of evil,
It has many forms, for it is not one
Before my silence was past, let it now return..."
[Saturnus - Astral Dawn]
"Fear not, all true gods carry horns"
[Saturnus - The Underworld]
"Love is dead and thou art free
She doth live but dead to thee"
[Robert Deveraux, Earl of Essex]
"In the season of night let it come
That the raven may guard upon thee
And when pursued by snow, rain, wind
And darkness let it come that I see
With the celestial eyes of bright wisdom"
[From the Tibetan Book of the Dead]
"No beginning without an end"
[Ebony Tears - The End]
Love and friendship:
"From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved. One might perhaps answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved." - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) Italian Philosopher, Statesman, Diplomatist, Writer
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty." - Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957) American Author, Journalist
A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and
if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
-- Alice Childress
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - Saint Basil (329-379AD) Bishop of Caesarea
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love,
I can: all of them make me laugh.
-- W. H. Auden
"The KISS principle:
Keep It Simple, Stupid!"
(some random bright programmer enjoying a glass of vodka)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered but the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)
A single death is a tragedy and a million deaths is a statistic. (Joseph Stalin)
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. (Oscar Wilde)
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. (Barry LePatner)
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. (Evelyn Waugh)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. (Thomas A. Edison)
The big thieves hang the little ones. (Czech Proverb)
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. (Hobart Brown)
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. (Elbert Hubbard)
The greatest things...
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, and thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, philosophy, and religion all in one.
- Eudora Welty, 1909 - 2001
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
-- Eric Hoffer
Grab a hold of the world!
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it’s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost
feel the warmth on your face.
-- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06-02-04
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-- Christopher Morley
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
-- Thomas Guthrie
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Heaven never touched earthly face
She was the sun shining upon
The tomb of your hopes
And dreams so frail
He was the moon painting you
With its glow so vulnerable and pale
The one in the Big Blue is what the world stole from me
This night will bring him back to me
The sun is shining out of my hands
it can burn, it can blind you all
when it breaks out of the fists
it lays down hotly on the face
it will not set tonight
and the world counts loudly to ten
will return
in ten days
as your shadow
and I will hunt you down
Secretly I will rise from the dead
and you will plead for mercy
then I will kneel in your face
and stick my finger ïn the ashes
For survival:
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. - Arnold Joseph Toynbee
"At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come
from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that
happens to other people." - Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American Science Fiction Writer
From a well-known man:
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places - you may find marvelous ideas.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- All from Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519
"Isi daduse seama ca exista doua lucruri care te impiedica sa-ti realizezi visele:gandul ca sunt imposibile sau, printr-o brusca rasturnare a rotii norocului, faptul de a le vedea transformandu-se in ceva posibil cand te astepti mai putin. Ei bine, in acest moment apare spaima de un drum care nu stii unde duce, de o viata cu provocari necunoscute, de posibilitatea ca lucrurile cu care suntem obisnuiti sa dispara pentru totdeuna."
Paulo Coelho - "Diavolul si domnisoara Prym" -
"Si ce alt folos ai mai vrea sa tragi dintr-o calatorie? Iata-ma despuiat de orice podoaba. Intr-un oras cu firme pe care nu le poti citi, cu litere ciudate de care nu se mai agata nimic familiar, fara prieteni cu care sa vorbesc, fara nimic care sa ma distraga. Stiu ca din aceasta camera, pana la care ajung zgomotele unui oras strain, nu ma mai poate smulge lumina mai suava a unui camin sau a unui loc iubit. Sa chem, sa strig? Se vor ivi doar chipuri straine. Biserici, aur si tamaie, totul ma arunca intr-o viata cotidiana in care spaima mea da pret fiecarui lucru. Si iata cum cortina de obiceiuri, tesatura confortabila de gesturi si de cuvinte sub care inima atipeste se ridica incet, dezvaluind chipul palid al nelinistii. Omul e fata in fata cu sine insusi: il desfid sa fie fericit... Si totusi tocmai de aceea calatoria e o revelatie. Un mare dezacord are loc intre el si lucruri. In inima ce si-a pierdut vechile certitudini, cantarea lumii patrunde mai usor. Desprinsa acum de toate, ea transforma pana si cel mai neinsemnat copac singuratic intr-o induiosatoare si fragila imagine. Opere de arta si surasuri de femei, rase de oameni inradacinati in pamantul lor si monumente in care se rezuma secolele, toate altcatuiesc un peisaj emotionant si sensibil ce se incheaga in timp ce calatorim. Iar seara, aceasta camera de hotel in care din nou ceva scormoneste in mine, ca o foame a sufletului."
Albert Camus "Fata si reversul"
Some experienced remarks:
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
-- Marilyn Manson, I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
-- William Hazlitt
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
-- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
Happy Easter y'all!
Love is the most expressed in quotes also, so here are some inspired ones:
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
-- Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
"And in the end, the love you take
Is equal to the love you make..."
- From The End by The Beatles
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
-- Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Since we're at the end of Easter, therefore holy holidays - these following are about God:
"The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God." - Jean
Rostand (1894-1977) French Biologist, Writer
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. - from Anatole France, 1844 - 1924
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
-- G. K. Chesterton
- Ce faceţi de dimineaţă până seara?
- Mă suport.
[CIORAN]
"Lumea nu e decat un nicaieri universal, de aceea nu ai unde sa te duci niciodata" Emil Cioran
The human being:
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he
has attained liberation from the self." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born American
Physicist
"Few love to hear the sins they love to act." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women." - Unknown
The general man, watch out:
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
-- H. L. Mencken
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. - William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British Essayist, Noted Literary Critic
"Imi amintesc cum la Florenta, in manastirea mortilor, la Santissima Annunziata, s-a trezit in mine un simtamant pe care l-am luat drept disperare, dar care nu era decat manie. Ploua. Citeam inscriptiile de pe pietrele funerare si de pe ex voto-uri. Unul fusese un tata duios si un sot fidel; altul, nu numai cel mai bun dintre soti, dar si negustor priceput (...) Dar ramaneam indiferent. Aproape toti, dupa cum aratau inscriptiile, se resemnasera sa moara, lucru neindoielnic de vreme ce acceptasera sa isi indeplineasca si celelalte indaotirir. Astazi, copiii napadisera manastirea si sareau capra pe lespezile ce le perpetuau virtutile. Se lasa noaptea. M-am intins pe pamant, cu spatele sprijinit de o coloana. un preot a trecut pe langa mine zambindu-mi. In biserica orga canta stins si suntele ei calde razbateau uneori printre strigatele copiilor. Singur, sprijinit de coloana, eram ca un om caruia i s-a pus mana-n gat si isi striga credinta pana la ultima suflare. Totul in mine protesta impotriva unei asemenea resemnari. "Trbuie", spuneau, inscriptiile. Nu, spuinea revolta mea, si avea dreptate."
Camus "Nunta"
Funny but with a certain degree of truth in them:
A good friend will come bail you out of jail...But a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Damn... We screwed up!" - Unknown
If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.
- Cullen Hightower
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
-- Ronnie Shakes
If it's "funny stuff" day... Then "funny stuff" day it is:
I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.
--> Billy Connolly
A guy at work went in for a competition and won a trip to China. He's out there now...trying to win a trip back!
--> Jerry Dennis
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
--> Rodney Dangerfield
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.
--> Emo Philips
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
--> Eric Sykes
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
--> Jack Handey
I think they're funny and that this blog is the coolest.
Life decisions:
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) American Theologian, Clergyman
"If you don't program yourself, life will program you!" - Les Brown (1945~) American Speaker,
Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an
uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever
exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving
too.'
-- William Ralph Inge
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
--> Steve Martin
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
--> Jimi Hendrix
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
--> Benjamin Franklin
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
--> Proverb
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
- All from J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904 - 1967
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
Deep-down truths:
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-- Isaac Asimov
"People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they
think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are
designed." - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) English Writer
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
-- George Orwell
It's incredible how long ago these were said, isn't it?
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then with a continuous series of such thoughts as these: for instance, that where a man can live, there he can also live well.
- All from Marcus Aurelius, 121 - 180
Cand fosnetul frunzelor e treaz si peretii inca se zvarcolesc in mine ce n-as da pentru o fereastra pe care sa o deschid!atat de mult m-am apropiat de mine incat nu mai vad nimic.
Dar ce fereastra sa deschid?!cum sa mai privesc cerul in ochi cand eu nu mai vad albastrul?
Cand cerul m-a privit in ochi am plecat capul...n-am putut sa vad ca ...nu ii mai vedeam albastrul.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there
is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote
the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely
more variable than the modes of silence.
-- Tom Blair
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain
working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it
comes, you feel you've known it always.
-- Katherine Anne Porter
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to
live.
-- Mark Twain
I have made this a rather long letter because I haven't had time to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662
A random selection from the best:
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have
long taken for granted.
-- Bertrand Russell
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance." - William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British Essayist, Noted
Literary Critic
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
-- Russell Baker
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Alfred Kissinger
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
- John Michael Crichton
A full cup must be carried steadily.
-- English Proverb
Beauty...
The smell of rain is rich with life.
- Estela Portillo Trambley
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
- W. Somerset Maugham, 1874 - 1965
The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the source of all art and science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
Always believe:
"The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using
it." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its
restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have
restrictions placed upon it.
-- Gloria Swanson
Learning and beliefs:
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but
in a new way.
-- Doris Lessing
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at
second hand, and without examination.
-- Mark Twain
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
-- Frances Willard
These are simply great:
"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do
well, and put your whole soul into it - ever bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you
have." - John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) American Industrialist, Philanthropist
"When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of
itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything." - Makism Gorky (1868-1936) Russian
Novelist, Short-story Writer, Dramatist
Let's see it from two different points:
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
-- Susan Sontag, New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect
when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
-- John Wayne
Here's from the Peter Pan writer:
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
- All from James Matthew Barrie, 1860 - 1937
Funny quotes (again):
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
-- George Burns
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
"The tools I need for my work are paper,tobacco,food and a little whiskey"
( W.Faulkner,American writer)
But all I need are paper and anger.
As "writing about art is like dancing about architecture" what if I would paint about music...or walk about lonliness and tremble about windy souls...I know I will finally write about art and dance about architecture...
nu-i lasa pe alti sa te faca sa suferi ,, sufera pentru ca o meriti
life is a journey not a destination
if u wish to die :) go ahead ,, ill see on the other side
"I believe in angels.When I know the time is right for me I cross the street...I have a dream."
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust." (T.S.Eliot)
traiau la masa batrani care rasuceau amintirile pe fire de par si tineri care isi imaginau amintiri din prezent...nu se mai traia,se catara pe viata.lumina inca mai era soarta orbilor.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, 1821 - 1890
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
-- Margaret Bonnano
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
-- Sigmund Freud, 1856 - 1939
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
-- Eckhart Tolle
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our
intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
-- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past,
and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
-- Dan Millman
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
-- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
-- Pablo Picasso
"Constientul este o coaja de nuca plutind pe oceanul inconstientului"
(C.A.Jung)
...
"Mai întîi mi-ai spus: degeaba privirea ta caută cerul, fereastra e în tine.
Te-am întrebat încurcat: şi lumina, lumina tot din mine vine?
Nu, din tine vin doar lacrimile cu care cureţi geamul plin de praf..."
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know
it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not
happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand
of unhappiness.
-- Robertson Davies
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide
it with.
-- Mark Twain
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard David
Bach (1936~) American Author
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates
inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
-- Frank Tibolt
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
-- George Orwell
"I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing." - Socrates (469-399BC) Greek
Philosopher of Athens
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
-- Alexander A. Bogomoletz
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first
time.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.
-- Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Erich Fromm, 1900 - 1980
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller, 1880 - 1968
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
- Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rosy-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day are gray and cold.
- Jean Paul Richter, 1763 - 1825
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
- Stanislaw Lec
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to
blossom.
-- Anaïs Nin
Un plan in spatiu.un plan umplut cu drepte paralele si concurente,cu rotiri de sfere tangente ori confundate,cu puncte...si toate stranse la un loc formau avatarul mintii cuiva.iar mintea aceea forma un suflet.el era cel ce transpunea fantasmagoria in concretul lumii reale.era un suflet din acelea care-si facea mintea sa-I intre-n suflet.
Erau odata 2 suflete,doua drepte in acelasi plan.cand nu-si mai putu purta preaplinul din el singur,unul din suflete se dedubla in hartie plina cu vorbe.hartia,intersectata cu sufletul din care se rupsese,se orienta perpendicular pe el.
Erau doua suflete in acelasi plan.din reflex hartia se facea perpendiculara pe ambele suflete... din afinitate pentru apropierea la distanta.
Astfel ca hartia se meatmorfoza in cel mai scurt drum dintre cele 2 suflete:perpendiculara pe 2 drepte paralele.
Era acel soi de apropiere care nu facea discriminari,nu refuza distanta mascata...acel soi de apropiere care n-avea interes pentru varietate...acel fel unic de apropiere de la distanta.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any
reaction, both are transformed.
-- Carl Jung
Success only hurts the first time.
-- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
-- Ramsay Clark
"De cele mai multe ori ceea ce numim noi fericire e ceea ce nu cunoastem."
(Anatole France)
m-am trezit intr-o dimineata cu senzatia ca nu mai e timp inapoia lui acum.apoi mi-am dat seama ca lumina nu poate fi ingropata.a fost atunci cand mi-am inchis toate pleoapele dinspre mine.este acum cand imi deschid jumatate din pleoape spre altceva care sa nu fie eu.este candva cand...dar ce va fi numai lumina neingropata stie si jumatatea de pleoape latente in somn prelung.insa de-atunci si pana candva tot tin lumina luminii.
am adormit intr-o seara fara nimic.
"Este mai usor sa dezintegrezi un atom decât o prejudecata."
(Albert Einstein)
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world,
right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful
action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing
it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation
should be changed.
-- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
- Honoré de Balzac, 1799 - 1850
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
- Gloria Steinem
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Benjamin Franklin
"writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo"
(Don Marquis)
"am facut un pas...atat.si de atunci merg mereu"
"Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what
they are. A really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are
absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of
having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry
he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize." - Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press
three.
-- Alice Kahn
An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.
-- Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006
More than usual.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
-- Pierre Corneille, 'The Cid,' 1636
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
- Alfred Hitchcock, 1899 - 1980
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round'. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P.
Jones (1881-1960) American Journalist
I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your
inner life or unconscious at night.
-- Margery Cuyler
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,'
December 1770
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
-- Freya Madeline Stark
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords
anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures;
but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
-- Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
"I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth.
There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its
variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever since . . . I could never belong entirely
to one side of any question." - Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Novelist
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
- Sydney Smith, 1771 - 1845
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his
own.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
-- Andre Gide
"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests
his heart in everything." - Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) Irish Humorous, Novelist
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.
- All from Ian Fleming, 1908 - 1964
"Orice as explora, gasesc urmele unui poet care a fost acolo înaintea mea."
S. Freud
"Iadul este gol si toti diavolii sunt aici."
William Shakespeare
" Daca am cunoaste toate tainele universului am cadea indata intr-un plictis enorm "
Anatole France
3...frumos numarul 3.este numarul ideal de alternative de care ar avea nevoie omul pentru a nu se simti nici constrans nici prea liber...
"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know." - Jim
Rohn [E. James Rohn] American Motivational Speaker
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
and at last you create what you will.
-- George Bernard Shaw
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and
love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in
the end to lie down and rest.
-- Pearl Bailey
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against the painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts.
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
- All from Patrick Henry, 1736 - 1799
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by
others." - Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430AD) Numidian-born Theologian
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise.... Because that is how life is, full of surprises.
I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions.... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
- All from Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904 - 1991
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
-- Aaron Rose
The only difference between the saint and sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
-- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia." -
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) American Writer, Printer, Businessman
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) American Poet, Essayist
“mi-e frica de cand m-am nascut.frica ma tine captiva,ma ascunde dupa fustele ei.inainte stateam de buna voie in confortul pe care mi-l oferea.mi-e frica de oameni,de apa,de unele vietuitoare.daca reusesc sa-mi inving toate fricile cunoscute apare una noua.trebuie s-o inving chiar pe ea...frica ce se pricepe sa ma ademeneasca.ma cunoaste atat de bine.n-o mai vreau.dau cu ea de pamant.o fac praf.ca sa fiu libera.
Eu am ales viata.”
(adela greceanu—intelegerea drept in inima)
Instead of quotes...
Why is journaling so powerful?
Journal writing captures our thoughts and feelings on paper. This shows us how we think, create, learn and intuit. When we can see what we're thinking, we can work with our thoughts in new ways. We break through our habitual patterns to discover our innate wisdom and creative genius. And when we do this, our lives transform.
Journaling is a potent self-help tool even when used casually. And when we understand how it works, and use it by design, its power to heal and expand our abilities grows exponentially.
"The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation,
when in reality they should be an object of contemplation." - Simone Weil (1909-1943) French
Philosopher, Mystic
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was
still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
-- Ellen DeGeneres
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
-- Heda Bejar
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Samuel Levenson (1911-1980) American Humorist, Author - wow. a great metaphor for living in the past...
"Omul stie mai multe decât întelege."
(Alfred Adler)
...da,fiindca a sti nu inseamna a cunoaste
"Abilitatile naturale fara educatie au dus la glorie mult mai des decat educatia fara abilitati innascute."
(Cicero )
...iar iluziile nasc vise care nasc vise care nasc vise care nasc vise care...
"I see trees of green........ red roses too
I watch 'em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue..... clouds of white
Bright blessed days....warm sacred nights
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world."
(Louis Armstrong)
What a wonderful World!
" Cu cat un lucru este mai absurd, cu atat are sanse sa se apropie de fondul unei probleme. Cu cat este mai absurd, cu atat este mai evident. Absurditatea este simpla si concisa, in timp ce inteligenta recurge la tot felul de subterfugii si ascunzisuri. Inteligenta este vicleana iar absurditatea sincera si naiva."
(F.M.Dostoievski - Fratii Karamazov)
"Non l'idea, ma il sentimento e quel che conferisce all'arte l'aerea legerezza del simbolo: un' aspirazione chiusa nel giro di una rappresentazione, ecco l'arte."
(Nu ideea, ci sentimentul este acela care confera artei sublima usurinta a simbolului: o aspiratie inchisa intr-o reprezentare, iata ce inseamna arta)
(Benedetto Croce - Breviario de estetica)
"Ogni intuizione sentimentale diventa lirica allorquando si organizza in forma artistica e acquista in tal modo il carattere della totalita."
(Orice intuitie sentimentale devine lirica atunci cand se organizeaza intr-o forma artistica, capatand astfel caracter de totalitate.)
(Umberto Eco - Opera aperta)
"L'ingegno e quella tal forma superiore dell'intelligenzza, che tutti possono capire, aprezzare ed amare."
(Talentul este acea forma superioara a inteligentei pe care toti o pot intelege, pretui si iubi.)
(Giovanni Papini - Un uomo finito)
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn
something new.
-- Og Mandino
"I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary." - Yogi Berra (1925~) American
Baseball Player, Coach, Manager
"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big
threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to
overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams." - Les Brown (1945~) American Speaker, Author, Trainer,
Motivator Lecturer
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
- Jeremy Irons
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do. - George Bernard Shaw
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-- Herbert Hoover
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn
something new.
-- Og Mandino
"I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary." - Yogi Berra (1925~) American
Baseball Player, Coach, Manager
"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big
threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to
overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams." - Les Brown (1945~) American Speaker, Author, Trainer,
Motivator Lecturer
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
- Harriet Tubman
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
- Sydney J. Harris, 1917 - 1986
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me
at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
-- Dave Barry
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
-- Joe Ancis
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
-- Audrey Giorgi
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action
and for bustle too, I believe.
-- Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to
leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Benjamin Franklin
I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult.
- Elwyn Brooks White, 1899 - 1985
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." - Jackson Brown (Life's
Little Instruction Book)
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy.
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
- Voltaire
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
-- William S. Burroughs
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- Siddhartha Gautama, 563 - 483 BC
“A fost odata o pasare.impodobita cu o pereche de aripi desavarsite si pene stralucitoare,colorate si minunate. In sfarsit,o vietate creata ca sa zboare libera si sloboda in cer,sa-I bucure pe cei care o zaresc.
Intr-o zi,o femeie vazu pasarea si se indragosti de ea. Ii urmari zborul cu gura cascata de uimire,cu inima batandu-I mai repede,cu ochii stralucindu-I de emotie. Se indemna sa zboare impreuna cu ea si amamndoua calatorira prin cer intr-o armonie desavarsita. Ea admira,venera,proslavea pasarea.
Dar ii veni atunci un gand:poate ca pasarea voia sa cunoasca cine stie ce munti indepartati.si femeia se simti infricosata.infricosata ca nu va mai simti niciodata acelasi lucru pentru alta pasare.si se simti invidioasa.invidioasa pe capacitatea de zbor a pasarii.
Si se simti singura.
Si cugeta:”am sa instalez o capcana.data viitoare cand va veni pasarea,ea nu va mai pleca.”
Pasarea,indragostita si ea,reveni a doua zi,cazu in capcana si fu inchisa in colivie.
Si ea privea zilnic pasarea.avea la dispozitie obiectul pasiunii sale si-l arata prietenelor ei,care comentau: “dar tu esti cineva care are totul.” Intre timp incepu sa se produca o ciudata transformare: cum avea pasarea la dispozitie si nu mai era nevoita sa o cucereasca,isi pierdu interesul pentru ea.pasarea,nemaiputand sa-si dea glas sensului vietii ei,incepu sa slabeasca.pierzandu-si stralucirea,se urati-si femeia nu-I mai dadea micio atentie,multumindu-se doar sa-I curete colivia si sa o hraneasca.
Intr-o buna zi pasarea isi dadu duhul.femeia fu cuprinsa de o adanca tristete si-si ducea zilele cu gandul la ea.
(...)
Daca s-ar fi observat pe sine insusi,ar fi descoperit ca ceea ce o emotiona atat de mult la pasarea aceea era libertatea ei,nu trupul ei fizic.
Fara pasare si viata isi pierdea sensul si moartea veni sa-I bata la usa. “de ce ai venit?” o intreba ea pe moarte.
“pentru ca tu sa poti zbura iarasi cu pasarea in cer raspunse moartea.
“daca ai fi lasat-o sa plece si sa se intoarca nestanjenita,ai fi iubit-o si admirat-o si mai mult. Acum insa ai nevoie de mine ca s-o reintalnesti.” “
(Paulo Coelho)
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
- Audrey Hepburn
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's
where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
- All from Nikola Tesla, 1856 - 1943
"Pasarea zboara intr-o pasare mare,
Pestele inoata intr-un peste imens.
Daca esti pasare sau peste,
Trebuie sa te cateri pe o franghie
La pasarea sau pestele care te contine,
Cu aceleasi insusiri ,insa mult mai mari.
Sau sa te cobori,pe aceeasi franghie ,
La pasarea sau pestele dinauntrul tau,
Cu aceleasi insusiri,insa mult mai mici.
(...)
cate iubiri sunt in noi si cum trebuie sa le facem una!
cate iubiri sunt in noi cand iubim!si cum mai sunt de false unele! "
(intelegerea drept in inima-Adela Greceanu)
In an essay titled "Bumper-Sticker Wisdom," one of 40 in her wonderful book, "Slices of Life,"
speaker, author and seminar leader Ellie Lofaro described these mini-messages in what Patricia Fripp
calls "words that come alive." She wrote: "Nowadays, humor, satire, cynicism, frivolity and
vulgarity permeate those four-by-twelve-inch telegrams that travel the asphalt jungle." Herewith, a few
samples:
If You Can Read This, I've Lost My Trailer.
The Earth Is Full - Go Home.
I Have the Body of a God - Buddha.
So Many Pedestrians - So Little Time.
Illiterate? Write for Help.
Honk if Anything Falls Off.
I Refuse to Have a Battle of Wits with an Unarmed Person.
You! Out of the Gene Pool - Now!
Stoplights Timed for 35 mph Also Are Timed For 70 mph
How Many Roads Must A Man Travel Down Before He Admits He is Lost?
All Men Are Animals; Some Just Make Better Pets.
- Material from Bob Kelly
Resident Wordsmith and Quotemeister
WordCrafters, Inc.
www.wordcrafters.info
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important'. Never
forget this message when working with people." - Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001) American Entrepreneur
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
-- Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and
often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
-- Bertrand Russell
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
-- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer, and critic.
- John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900
There are two kinds of people in the world: the Givers and the Takers. The difference between the two is that the Takers eat well, and the Givers sleep well at night.
- Joy Mills
Despite the sight of all the miseries which affect us and hold us by the throat we have an irrepressible instinct which bears us up.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
- All from Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
-- Barry LePatner
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
-- Michelangelo Buonarroti
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as
contributing to the need for it." - Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) Anglo-American Film Director
I can resist anything but temptation.
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
- Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
- Sir John Lubbock, 1834 - 1913
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if
it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
- J. Willard Marriott, 1900 - 1985
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
-- Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999 (oh, so true)
...doua idei care se continua una pe cealalta ..care merg bine impreuna..aproape ca alcatuiesc un intrega suficient...aproape..
:
"Stiu personal, printr-o trista experienta, ca urmarind scopuri utopice se ajunge la carnagii si la lagare de concentrare. Din momentul în care sacrificati ceea ce este posibil pentru ceea ce este de dorit va angajati pe o cale inumana."
(Paul Watzlawick)
"Daca normele sociale sunt clar definite si percepute ca stabile, indivizii isi limiteaza ambitiile in functie de aceste norme.Daca normele sunt imprecise si instabile,indivizii nutresc ambitii ce depasesc posibilitatile de realizare si resimt o frustrare"
(paradigma frustrarii relative- Stouffer)
si acum....ceva din autoarea mea preferata(uneori)
:
“trupul cu fricile lui e fragil.e o armura sparta prin care poate patrunde ce nu e iubire.pe-acolo patrund si greselile celuilalt.si,ca sa ai iertarea deplina,trebuie sa te ierti in timp ce eu te iert.atunci apare fradina in jurul gandului nostru.”
These are the prerogatives of genius: to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships, and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
- All from Ambrose Bierce
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
-- Alexandre Dumas
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
-- Mark Twain
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
-- M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
Loving You
What a lovely thing to do
Spend my lifetime loving you
Planning days that bring us pleasure
Building memories two can treasure
Reaching milestones one by one
Sharing problems sharing fun
Being close - the best friends ever
Making dreams come true together
- Unknown
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
-- Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory
To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
- All from Robert Anson Heinlein, 1907 - 1988
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
- Agnes De Mille, 1905 - 1993
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
- William Adams (explorer)
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
-- Gracie Allen
"stiai ca si copacii
inimilor noastre
au aripi,inalte
pana la pleoapa
inchisa
a cerului?
Cand incearca
sa zboare,
se face ziua,
cresc
rauri largi
de lumina
di pleoapa
treptat
deschisa.
Nu le poti vedea
copacilor
in zbor
radacinile suspendate.
Nu putem atinge
cerul
sfant
cu varfurile degetelor,desi
urcam
din treapta-n treapta
serpuind
printre ramurile lor-
pentru ca
suntem,
zi sau noapte,
la fel de
orbi..."
(Nestiinta-V.Belegante)
...cata liniste pot cuprinde niste biete cuvinte scrise in topica potrivita;
si cand te gandesti ca ele sunt materiale si linistea nu,iar sufletul nici atat...
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the
same time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up" (1936)
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no
longer flow into our souls.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of
adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-- Anne Bradstreet, 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly
considered.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
-- Andre Gide
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry someone you can't live without.
- Unknown
Relationships of all kinds are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
- Kaleel Jamison (the Nibble Theory)
The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it - once you can honestly say, "I don't know," then it becomes possible to get at the truth.
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
" Trebuia sa fie fericit.Dar nu era.In timp ce majorotatea muritorilor se speteau pentru un codru de paine,un acoperis sub care sa traiasca,o slujba care sa le permita a traai cu demnitate,el avea toate acestea ,ceea ce-l facea si mai nefericit.Daca si-ar fi facut un bilant recent al vietii, poate traise 2-3 zile in care se trezise,privise soarele-sau ploaia-si se simtise bucuros ca era dimineata,pur si simplu bucuros fara sa-si doareasca nimic, fara sa ceara numic in schimb.Afara de acele cateva zile ,restul existentei i se irosise pe visari,frustrari si impliniri,dorinta de autodepasire, calatorii dincolo de propriile limite;nu stia exact cum sau de ce, sigur este ca isi petrecuse viata incercand sa isi dovedeasca ceva. "
(P.Coelho)
"...Dar fericirea nu este un vânat după care alergi cu limba scoasă. Şi oamenii aleargă o vreme după ceea ce cred ei că este fericirea, şi-n această goană prin pustiu obosesc. Nu mai vor să gonească după fericire. Vor să se apropie de ea, pe furiş, s-o ia prin surprindere. Ei şi-au pus speranţa într-un om, şi acel om n-a corespuns aşteptărilor. Şi atunci încep să tragă concluzii, şi-n loc să trăiască, molfăie principii. "
(Teodor Mazilu-Goana dupa fericire)
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
-- Albert Guerard
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
-- Harrison Ford, quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
- Jean de La Fontaine, 1621 - 1695
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
-- George Bernard Shaw
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
-- Ernest Hemingway
Everything you can imagine is real.
-- Pablo Picasso
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Jung
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to
fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
-- Carl Sagan
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the
regenerative power of the human heart.
-- Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- All from George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950
all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon
- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
-- Dale Carnegie
“Sufletul era considerat in Antichitate un principiu al binelui, o particula divina, iar trupul – o inchisoare a sufletului, se credea ca dupa moarte sufletul isi continua existenta si suporta mai multe modificari si metamorfoze, spre a se purifica de infestarea pricinuita de trup; in conceptia orfismului, reincarnarea (asa cum aflam din surse tarzii - Pindar, Platon etc.) este o metempsihoza in forma unei triple incercari a sufletului in viata corporala “
((aproximativ)Platon)
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-- Leo Tolstoy
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to
fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
-- Carl Sagan
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the
regenerative power of the human heart.
-- Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- All from George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950
all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon
- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
-- Dale Carnegie
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies
faith in the future.
-- Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go
together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to
figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
-- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has
chosen.
-- Minor White
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman, 1904 - 1999
We r all angels with one wing and we must embrace one another to fly
- Unknown
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark
about three inches away.
-- Tom Lehrer, lecturing in "The Nature of Math", 4/4/90
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
-- Gilda Radner
1. Never tell everything at once.
-- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.
- Marion Woodman
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
-- Ann Landers
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope ... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert F. Kennedy, 1925 - 1968
"daca iubirea trece,
n-a fost iubire...
daca te-ntrebi
iubire de-a fost,
n-a fost iubire...
de fapt,
inceteaza
sa mai intrebi
de-a fost iubire...
invata
mai bine,
sa-ti camuflezi
sentimentele,
sufletul,
curajul,
inteligenta,
dorul...
daca
n-am fi invatati
sa ne iubim doar pe noi insine
din nastere,
poate ca
astazi
n-am mai trece apatic
prin vamile
dorului,
si,
am intelege ca
Marile Taine
sunr mai aproape,
cele mai aproape
de noi..."
(poeme nespuse-Violeta Belegante)
frumoasa poezie. mersi!
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last
forever.
-- Anatole France
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
- Charles F. Kettering
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
- Chester W. Nimitz.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
- All from Mae West, 1892 - 1980
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
-- Albanian Proverb
You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry someone you can't live without.
- Unknown
"jocul copilului,ca si cel al omului matur,este o luare in posesie a lumii si o fuga din lume;
vrand s-o cucereasca,el evadeaza in acelasi timp din lume: ii suprapune o alta,in care isi ofera iluzia Puterii."
(Henri Delacroix)
"arta nu reda vizibilul.face vizibil."
(Paul Klee)
..cat imi place asta!
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
-- Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to
end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
-- Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one
than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
-- John Stuart Mill - great philosophy has this guy. In fact, it's the basis for democracy today, and the progressive tax with earned money idea, etc.
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
-- Henry Moore
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
-- Sylvia Robinson
Keep close to Nature's heart ... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir, 1838 - 1914
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
- Maurice Chevalier, 1888 - 1972
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Orice om cu judecată îşi va aminti ca tulburarea vederii este de două feluri şi are două cauze, fie intrarea din lumină în întuneric, fie ieşirea de la întuneric la lumină, ceea ce este tot atît de adevărat pentru ochiul minţii ca şi pentru ochiul trupului; iar cel care-şi aminteşte acest lucru cînd observă pe cineva a cărui vedere este nesigură şi slabă nu se va grăbi să rîdă de el; se va întreba mai întîi dacă oare acel suflet omenesc a ieşit dintr-o viaţă mai luminoasă şi nu poate vedea bine pentru că este neobişnuit cu întunericul, sau dacă este orbit de lumina cea mare în care a ieşit din întuneric. Şi va socoti că cel din urmă este fericit în starea în care se află, şi-l va compătimi pe celălalt; sau, dacă-i vine să rîdă de sufletul care vine de jos la lumină, va fi mai îndreptăţit s-o facă decît să rîdă de cel care se înapoiază de la lumină în peştera."
(Platon-Republica)
....trist dar adevarat....
" Când vârâm ceva în cap, nu-l mai scoatem pentru nimic în lume, cu orice temeiuri, limpezi ca lumina zilei; totul sare îndărăt ca mingea lovită de perete. "
(Suflete moarte-Gogol)
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
-- Margaret Wheatley
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
- Patricia Neal
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
- Carl Lotus Becker
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
- All from Oprah Winfrey
"este conditia umana.de cand am fost alungati din paradis ori facem pe cineva sa sufere ori ne uitam la suferintele celorlalti.
e inevitabil."
"din noaptea timpurilor omul intelesese ca suferinta ,o data privita fara teama ,era pasaportul sau catre libertate"
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
- Franz Kafka, 1883 - 1924
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.
-- Albert Einstein
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
- Lao-Tzu
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
- Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour
of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
-- Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
-- Charles Lindbergh
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
"Visul se straduieste mereu sa exprime ceea ce eul nu stie sa priceapa."
(C.Jung)
"Visul este implinirea deghizata a unei dorinte"
(S.Freud)
"De cînd am început studiul inconştientului îmi par mie însumi extrem de interesant. Păcat numai că trebuie păstrată tăcerea despre ce este mai intim."
(S.Freud)
"A fi total sincer faţă de tine însuţi constituie un exerciţiu folositor."
(S.Freud)
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their
lives.
-- Sue Murphy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
-- John F. Kennedy
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
When you learn to trust your emotions instead of manipulating them, you will experience true love.
- Lucy Alexis Smith
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward, 1921 - 1994
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work
miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
-- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person.
And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you.
Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon.
-- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 26. Write from the heart., 08-22-04
"
Stiai
Ca si copacii
Inimilor noastre
Au aripi,inalte
Pana la pleoapa
Inchisa
A cerului?
Cand incearca
Sa zboare,
Se face ziua,
Cresc
Rauri largi
De lumina
Din pleoapa
Treptat
Deschisa.
Nu le poti vedea
Copacilor in zbor
Radacinile suspendate.
Nu putem atinge
cerul
sfant
cu varfurile degetelor,desi
urcam
din treapta-n treapta
serpuind
printre ramurile lor-
pentru ca
suntem,
zi sau npate,
la fel de
orbi...
"
(nestiinta-poeme nespuse)
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