Gandhi

A minimum of good action is better than a maximum of good intention.

Gray

The path of glory leads but to the grave

David Ben Gurion

in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles

Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov (1814-1841)

[ru]
Женщины! женщины! кто их поймет? Их улыбки противоречат их взорам, их слова обещают и манят, а звук их голоса отталкивает... То они в минуту постигают и угадывают самую потаенную нашу мысль, то не понимают самых ясных намеков...

[en]
Oh women, women! Who really does understand them? Their smiles contradict their glances, their words promise and beguile, but their tone of voice repulses. They either figure out in a flash your innermost thought or they don't get the most obvious hint . . .

Ivo Andrić

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Ko u ovom svetu ne ume da organizuje sam svoj život, nije vredan da živi, a ko ga sa uspehom organizuje, izgubi pri tome toliko snage i svežine da mu i ne vredi mnogo što živi.

***

Što ne boli - to nije život, što ne prolazi - to nije sreća.

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Kolumbo priča da je prilikom otkrića Kube video biljku pamuka i na njoj stalno u isto vreme jedne čahure koje tek dozrevaju, druge koje su već dozrele i otvorene, i treće koje su tek u cvetu.

Takva biljka trebalo bi da bude čovek.

***

Toliko je bilo u životu stvari kojih smo se bojali. A nije trebalo. Trebalo je živeti.

***
Svuda u svetu, a naročito valjda u ovim balkanskim zemljama, možete na dva načina da se odbranite i održite u struji života i da ljude prisilite da vas poštuju i - poštede. Prvi je: da stečete toliko novca i sigurnih dobara da vam niko ne sme i ne može ništa. Drugi je: da pokažete takvu ravnodušnost prema novcu, vlasti i svakom društvenom sjaju i uspehu, da vam i opet - ne može niko ništa.
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"Posrnućete, ali nećete pasti; a ako se i desi - izuzetan slučaj! - baš i da padnete, nećete se povrediti nego ćete, čim
se pridignete, produžiti mirno i bodro svoj put. Različiti ste od svega oko sebe, sve vam preti i sve vas ugrožava, ali vam se ne može ništa zlo i nepopravljivo desiti, jer u vama od začetka vašeg zivi skrivena i neuništiva iskra životne radosti koja je moćnija od svega što vas okružuje. Samo ćete celog veka, sve do poslednjeg daha, patiti zbog svog neprirodnog položaja u svetu u koji ste bačeni. Tako se može reći da vam je, kroz sve mene i obrte dugog života, dvoje zajemčeno i osigurano: duga patnja i sigurna pobeda."
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Ne smrt, zaborav rešava sve. Zaborav, i to ne samo pojmova, reči i lica, nego svega što postoji i živi. Zaborav tela i zaborav vremena. Zaborav, da bi se moglo predahnuti i živeti dalje u telu bez sećanja, sa duhom bez imena. Zaborav, smrt sa pravom na nadu.
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Arnold H. Glasow

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Kant, Immanuel

What can I know?
What ought I to do?
What can I hope?

La Rochefoucauld

Few people know how to be old

William Shakespeare

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

William Morrow

What lies behind us and what lies
before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is nothing more frightful than
imagination without taste.

Bertrand Russell

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Miguel De Cervantes

All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.

Publilius Syrus

The eyes are not responsible when
the mind does the seeing.

Goethe

We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own defects.

mr right

Nothing is as simple as it seems at first
Or as hopeless as it seems in the middle
Or as finished as it seems in the end.



experience

Erica Jong

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing:no one to blame.

Pindar, 518-446

“The present will not long endure”

Paul Cezanne

I want to die painting.

Seneca

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[en] And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

[mk] Ако не си птица - не седнувај на работ на амбисот.

Tone Svetina

[si] Življenje obrusi me kot nož, kdor me ne prime prav naj zakrvavi.


Ukana - moto

Vincent Van Gogh

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore.

mr right

If you sometimes feel a little useless, offended or depressed !!!
Remember that YOU were once the fastest and most victorious sperm out of millions !!!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Sigmund Freud

I am not really a man of science, not an OBSERVER, not an EXPERIMENTER, and not a THINKER. I am by temperament nothing but a CONQUISTADOR . . . with the curiosity, the boldness, and the tenacity that belong to that type of person.

Sigmund Freud

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright

“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”

mr right

Треба што повеќе денови обични
да ги направиме необични
за да се паметат ,
особено по добро

Oscar Wilde

"Never trust in a woman who admite her real age,if she is capable of it, she is capable anything!"

Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Andre Gide

Better to be hated for what you are
than to be loved for what you are not.

Yiddish Proverb

If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

Demetrius

The riches that are not found in our soul do not belong to us.

John W Gardner

"The cynic says, "One man can't do anything."
I say, "Only one man can do anything." "
(John W Gardner)

--------------------------------------------------

"One man can do everything."
(me.BLACKONLY - sorry John)

Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

"The truth is more important than the facts."

Macedonian

Додека умните размислуваат за животот, будалите го живеат.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"Everything has been figured out,

except how to live."

Galileo

"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself"

Charles de Gaulle

I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.

Charles de Gaulle

[en] Now she is like the others.

[fr] Maintenant, elle est comme les autres.

• Spoken at the funeral of his daughter Anne, who had Down Syndrome, February 1948

Charles de Gaulle

There are three roads to ruin: by gambling, which is the quickest; through women, which is the most pleasurable; and through taking the advice of experts, which is the most certain

Proverb, German

An old man loved is winter with flowers. 

Miguel de Unamuno

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Miguel de Unamuno

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Miguel de Unamuno

“It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love”

Miguel de Unamuno

Consciousness is a disease.

Robert Newton Peck

Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.

Seneca

Life is a play! 'Tis not its length but its performance that counts.

Walt Schmidt

Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.

Brenda Ueland

The imagination needs moodling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering.

Thomas Alva Edison

"There's a way to do it better.
Find it."

Carlos Castaneda

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.

Aldous Huxley

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Hans Holzer

Not believing shortens down horizons.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be what we are, and to become what
we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

(BECOMING)

Spanish Proverb

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and to rest afterward."

Woodrow Wilson

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

Kenyan Proverb

He who refuses to obey cannot command.

Maurice Sendak

There must be more to life than having everything.

Stanislaw J Lec

You must first have a lot of patience
to learn to have patience

Zimbabwe saying

You don't have to be faster than the lion, you only have to be faster than the slowest guy.

Ann Landers

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Charles Darwin

[en] "It is not the strongest (of the species) that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

[mk] "Не преживуваат ни најсилните ни најумните (видови) , туку оние кои се најприлагодиви на промените„


( ) by blackONLY

Socrates

[en] Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

[mk] Пазете се од јаловоста на зафатеноста во животот

Richard Bach

I gave my life to be the person I am.
Was it worth it?

Marcel Proust (Valentin Louis Georges Eugène )(1871–1922)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

mr right

Don't regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

mr right

Charles Buxton

You will never find time for anything.
You must make it.

Charles Buxton

Immanuel Kant

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Mary Hemingway

Worry a little bit every day
and in a lifetime
you will lose a couple of years.
If something is wrong,
fix it if you can.
But train yourself not to worry.
Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“I don't know, I don't care, and
it doesn't make any difference!”

“If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough”

“Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

[en]
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

[mk]
Телото е куќа со мноштво прозори, во која седиме, покажувајки се и плачејки по минувачите - да дојдат и да не сакаат.


Robert Louis Stevenson

stanislaw jirzy lec

[en]
solitude, you are so congested

[mk]
самотијо, ти си пренаселена


stanislaw jirzy lec

Shakti Gawain

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
Shakti Gawain

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Helen Keller

Albert Camus

Charm is getting the answer "yes" without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

mr right

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

unknown

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
Fyodor Dostoevsky

mr right

"The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion. The tunnel is."
Anonymous

Carl Sagan

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Carl Sagan

distribution

39.6%		11.3%
ISTJ - 11.6% Inspector	ISFJ - 13.8% Protector	INFJ - 1.5% Counselor	INTJ -2.1% Mastermind
ISTP - 5.4% Crafter	ISFP - 8.8% Composer	INFP - 4.4% Healer	INTP - 3.3% Architect
33.8%		15.6%
ESTP - 4.3% Supervisor	ESFP - 8.5% Performer	ENFP - 8.1% Champion	ENTP - 3.2% Inventor
ESTJ - 8.7% Conservator	ESFJ - 12.3% Provider	ENFJ - 2.5% Teacher	ENTJ - 1.8% Field Marshall

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Pablo Picasso

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Pablo Picasso

Viggo Mortensen

"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."


Viggo Mortensen

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

Fred Astaire

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Fred Astaire

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Henri Matisse

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"The Model T is available in any color you choose, so long as it's black."
Henry Ford

Miguel de Cervantes

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."

Miguel de Cervantes

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (1872–1933)

"No person was ever honored for what they received.
Honor has been the reward for what they gave."

Calvin Coolidge

from SHALL WE DANCE

The rumba... is a vertical expression of a horizontal wish. You have to hold her like the skin on her thigh is your reason for living. Let her go like your heart's being ripped from your chest. Pull her back like you're gonna have your way with her, right here on the dance floor. And then finish... Like she's ruined you for life

Jeremy Irons (1948-****)

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
Jeremy Irons

Rabbi Israel Salanter (*-*)

First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world.

Rabbi Israel Salanter

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either--but right through every human heart.

Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

Alphonse Allais

[fr]
Partir, c'est mourir un peu, mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.

Alphonse Allais

Partir Cest Mourir Un Peu

Ralph Charell

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Ralph Charell