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Alfred Adler

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Akhmatova

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

Aristophanes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Isaac Asimov

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

Jane Austen

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Sathya Baba

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

Balzac

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Matsuo Basho

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

Bataille

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Henri Bergson

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating yourself endlessly.

Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Andre Breton

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Giordano Bruno

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Giordano Bruno

The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.

Pearl Buck

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Robert Burns

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

George Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Calvino

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Cervantes

That which costs little is less valued.

Anton Chekhov

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Cicero

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

cummings

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Marie Curie

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Dante

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Delacroix

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Diogenes

We have two ears and one tongue so that we should listen more and talk less.

Walt Disney

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Will Durant

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Umberto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Eisenstein

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

Eisenstein

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

George Eliot

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”

George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Feuerbach

To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.”

Fitzgerald

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Paulo Freire

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Galeano

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

Gauguin

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Jean Genet

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Khalil Gibran

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Khalil Gibran

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Goethe

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Nikolai Gogol

“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.”

Emma Goldman

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Nadine Gordimer

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Gracian

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Hawking

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

Hawthorne

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Heraclitus

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

Horace

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Ionesco

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

Ionesco

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Jesus

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Juan Jimenez

Blessed is the famous flaw that saves us from the abominable perfection

Maria Kallas

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Wassily Kandinsky

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

Kavvadias

Always the perfect, unworthy lover of the endless voyage and azure ocean

Kepler

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Jack Kerouac

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry

Srecko Kosovel

These awesome times, these restless times, are playing nervously with what we are looking for, in every direction, crushing and killing dreams.

Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Kropotkin

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

Kunanbaev

He who shouts in his anger is harmless. Fear the one who is silently angry.

Wanda Landowska

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.

Lawrence

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Eino Leino

He who a single one loves is blessed – beloved of everybody. Whoever self-interest forgets the best will blessèd dreams embody.

Vinci da Leonardo

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Mykola Lysenko

Bless us, oh Lord, with good fortune For ever and evermore.

Mykola Lysenko

Bless us with freedom, bless us with wisdom, Guide into kind world,

Norman Mailer

Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Malatesta

Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion.

Andre Malraux

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

Andre Malraux

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Nelson Mandela

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Edouard Manet

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Karl Marx

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

E.L. Masters,

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire. It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Herman Melville

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

Henri Michaux

With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?

Henri Michaux

He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.

Michelangelo

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Henry Miller

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

John Milton

Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

Gabriela Mistral

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Gabriela Mistral

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

A. Modigliani

You are not alive unless you know you are living.

Moliere

“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.

Montesquieu

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu

The less men think, the more they talk.

Mozart

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.

Nietzsche

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Kostis Palamas

Was it really my destiny, was it my fortune, I haven't met another A sea within me as shallow as a lake, And like an ocean boundless and big.

Boris Pasternak

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Octavio Paz

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Pessoa

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Sunthorn Phu

The worth of music, it includes all things Of untold value, like a priceless gem

Karma Phuntsho

The culture of social and mass media is very restless and hectic and frenzied. This is going to make the human psyche, especially among young people here, very volatile

Plutarch

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Sergei Prokofiev

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Pythagoras

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Pythagoras

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings will never know health or peace. He, who sows the fruit of murder and pain can not reap joy and love.

Rilke

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Rochefoucauld

he happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Jacqueline Romilly

I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.

Rousseau

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Rousseau

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Gabrielle Roy

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Schubert

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Irena Sendler

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

Mary Shelley

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Skinner

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

Skinner

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

Skinner

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

Skinner

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Socrates

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Solon

The best city is where those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Spinoza

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

John Steinbeck

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.

Stendhal

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Tagore

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Tagore

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

Tchaikovsky

I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music.

Tesla

Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth.

Henry Thoreau

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Vonnegut

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Simone Weil

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Tennessee Williams

can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

Yourcenar

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Stefan Zweig

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.