Posts tagged quotation

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
George Orwell, 1984
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J.K. Rowling
The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.
Quando il gioco è finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola. When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
But why should you be interested in me?”
Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai’s soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I’m interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us.
Haruki Murakami, After Dark
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover