"Daca iti plac citatele..." - O serie de cuvinte care te pot inspira (a large collection of quotes)

"To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them." - Charles Buxton

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." - Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." - Horace Walpole

"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." - George Christoph Lichtenberg

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears.
Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be." - Hubert H. Humphrey

"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest." - Wilson Mizner

"In a mad world only the mad are sane." - Akira Kurosawa

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." - Thomas Carlyle

"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." - Norm Papernick

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given." - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003

"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all." - Peter McWilliams, Life 101

"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know." - W. H. Auden

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose." - Darrin Weinberg

"If I could be any part of you, I’d be your tears. To be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips." - Unknown

"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in." - Katherine Mansfield

"Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within." - Franz Kafka

"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time." - Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." - Paul Dirac

"Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living." - Toni Cade Bambara

"If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be." - Peter McWilliams, Life 101

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better." - Laurie Anderson

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail." - Alfred North Whitehead

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." - Bonnie Prudden

"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." - Shakti Gawain

"Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there." - Mickey Friedman

"Why do we close our eyes when we dream, kiss and imagine? Because the best things are unseen!" - Unknown

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." - Christopher Morley

"When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision." - Lord Falkland

"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." - Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." - George Bernard Shaw

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson

"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." - Harriet Martineau

"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it." - Ogden Nash

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place." - Abigail Van Buren, 1978

"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think." - Mortimer Adler

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." - Brendan Gill

"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." - Gordon R. Dickson

"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine." - Fritz Perls

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going." - Professor Irwin Corey

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"

"The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either." - Dick Cavett

"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never." - Marguerite de Valois

"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." - David Starr Jordan

"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it." - James A. Garfield

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm

"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question." - Stephen Jay Gould

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." - Franz Kafka

"Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Alexander Pope, Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727

"That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure." - Madonna, O Magazine, January 2004

"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult." - Plutarch

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freya Madeline Stark

"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

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim." - George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction

"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." - Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)

"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends." - Herbert Hoover

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all." - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41

O mare parte din a nu uita cine suntem cand suntem mici implica partea aceea a gandirii. Atunci cand traim, de zi cu zi, ne indreptam fara sa ne dam seama catre ceva, un ceva care nu mai este ceea ce am fost. Ceea ce suntem la origine, dpdv al conceptiilor, este de o puritate si o deschidere catre orice experienta de nedescris. Insa, in loc sa ne indreptam spre ceea ce ne-am nascut sa fim, cautam sa ne uitam inainte, in spre viitor. De fapt, cine suntem nu se poate schimba si, eu cred, daca te indepartezi de cine ai fost atunci cand ai fost nascut, nu vei fi fericit. Secretul fericirii adevarate (adica nu cea din iluzie) este apropierea de sine, intelegerea de sine. Dragostea pentru sine si aprecierea pentru valorile tale. Daca stau sa ma gandesc, ceea ce ma face pe mine eu... este faptul ca pot sa privesc orice cu bucurie, cu veselie. Pot sa simt ceea ce simt altii. Cand eram mic sufeream cand sufereau cei din jurul meu... si multi facem asta. Tot ce suntem cand suntem mici e aproape de ideal... iar gandirea, conceptia de viata, totul deriva de acolo. Poate pare greu de crezut... dar e foarte posibil si probabil.

"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life." - Evelyn Underhill

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." - Blaise Pascal

"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door." - Publilius Syrus

"You don't have to die in order to make a living." - Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 10-14-05

"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."

"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

"You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty." - Cecil Baxter

"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours." - Bertrand Russell

"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." - Andre Maurois

"Most people love you for who you pretend to be... to keep their love, you keep pretending--performing. You get to love your pretense... it's true, we're locked in an image, an act.
And, the sad thing is, people get so used to their image--they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And, if you try to remind them, they hate you for it. They feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession." - James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of the Doors