'He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.' -Friedrich Nietzsche

'All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.' -Friedrich Nietzsche

'Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.' -Oscar Wilde

'We chose another way and sought to embrace the infinite. we went inside ourselves and created a new world.' -Henrik Steffens

'A true friend stabs you in the front.' -Oscar Wilde

'There is just one life for each of us: our own.' -Euripides

'Between two evils, i always pick the one i never tried before.' -Mae West

'Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.' -Mae West

'I have not seen any dead. I have done worse. In the dank air I have perceived it, and in the darkness, felt.' -Wilfred Owen

'If you look straight in my eyes / you still might see a disguise.' -Outkast

'If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.' -Albert Einstein

'[faith is] that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' -Bram Stoker (Dracula)

'Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.' -Bram Stoker (Dracula)

'Know yourself.' -The Oracle at Delphi

'In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.' -Coco Chanel

'Dreams are necessary to life.' -Anais Nin

'I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.' -Anais Nin

'Was Mich Nicht Umbringt, macht mich starker.' (German for- that which does not kill me, makes me stronger) -Fredrich Nietzsche

'What is life? a madness. What is life? an illusion, a shadow, a story, and the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.' -Pedro Calderon de la Barca

'But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.' -Pedro Calderon de la Barca

'Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.' -Eleanor Roosevelt

'Education is, not preparation for life; education is life itself.' -John Dewey

'Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.' -John Dewey

'Never shall i forget the flames that consumed my faith forever. never shall i forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. never shall i forget those moments that murdered my god and my sould and turned my dreams to ashes. never shall i forget these things, even were i condemned to live as long as god himself, never.' -Eli Wiesel (Night)

'From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.' -Eli Wiesel (Night)

'Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.' -Eli Wiesel (Night)

'It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.' -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

'Ancora Imparo' (latin for- I am still learning) -Michelangelo

'Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.' -Epictetus

'I shall die, and what i now feel be no longer felt… my spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus.' -Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

'How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.' -Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

'Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude.' -Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

'A great mind becomes a great fortune.' 'A great fortune is a great slavery.' -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

'Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.' -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

'Let us not look back… the past is gone! wherefore should we linger upon it now?' -Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

'I know the things i should be able to accomplish, and i dont want to do so.' -Paul Coelho (The Alchemist)

'This wasn't a strange place, it was a new one.' -Paul Coelho (The Alchemist)

'I wasn't born this way – in a darkness.' -E. Fuller Torrey (Surviving Schizophrenia)

'It is not the physical pain which hurts the most it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.' -Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search For Meaning)

'We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and others will understand neither how we felt nor how we feel now.' -Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search For Meaning)

'Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary.' -Diana Gabaldon (The Outlander)

'Like everyone else, scientists are wrong from time to time… the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of suprise.' -alias= Lemony Snicket (The Erstaz Elevator)

'If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.' -Marcus Aurelius

 

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  1. David 17 years ago


    'Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.' -Oscar Wilde

    that one is my fravourite. Nothing is worse than planning an elaborate revenge and someone spoils it by apologising 🙂

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