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Bhanu Acharya

Life is ignominious whose memories of existence fades away

Aeschylus

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Aeshop

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Maya Angelou

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Apollinaire

Joy came always after pain.

Aristotles

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree, at the right time and for the right purpose, in the right way, - that is not easy.

Isaac Asimov

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Miguel Asturias

However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

Bach

I have always kept one end in view, namely… to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honor of God.

Bach

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Mikhail Bakunin

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Balzac

“It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Baudelaire

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

de Simone Beauvoir

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.

Beethoven

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Brendan Behan

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Behan

“They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues…”

Heinrich Bell

I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.

Elizabeth Bishop

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

Karen Blixen

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Boccaccio

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”

Boccaccio

A kissed mouth doesn't lose its freshness, for like the moon it always renews itself.

Borges

“You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.”

Brecht

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

Brecht

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Brecht

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Giordano Bruno

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

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.

Pearl Buck

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Robert Burns

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

W. Burroughs

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

W. Burroughs

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

George Byron

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

George Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Amílcar Cabral

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.

Albert Camus

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Truman Capote

“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”

Cervantes

The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

Chanel

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

Chanel

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness

Ray Charles

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

Chateaubriand

Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it.

Chateaubriand

Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory

Guevara Che

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Chopin

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

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?

Joseph Conrad

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

Jose Craveirinha

Where are we really going? Always home.

cummings

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Dante

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Walt Disney

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Walt Disney

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Walt Disney

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Walt Disney

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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.

Will Durant

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Umberto Eco

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die

Thomas Eliot

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Epicurus

There is only one way to happiness, you have to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Exupery

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Ian Fleming

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Fontaine

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.)

Anne Frank

I've found that there is always some beauty left, in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

Viktor Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Sigmund Freud

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

Sigmund Freud

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.

Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Carlos Fuentes

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

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.

Galileo Galilei

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Galileo Galilei

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Khalil Gibran

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Emma Goldman

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

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

Maxim Gorky

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

Gracian

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Gracian

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Hatim

He who speaks the truth is always tranquil.

Hawking

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Hawthorne

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Hawthorne

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Hawthorne

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Patrick Hearn

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

Heinrich Heine

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle

Hemingway

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Hemingway

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Hemingway

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Hemingway

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Heraclitus

This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.

Hesiod

It will not always be summer; build barns.

Hermann Hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Nazim Hikmet

You are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want to anyway. I have a headache, my knees are full of scars I am in mud all around I struggle to walk towards your hesitant light.”

Hippocrates

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Homer

Always be first and best and never embarrass your ancestors.

Langston Hughes

the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,

Victor Hugo

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Ionesco

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Isokratis

In sloth and strenuous amusements the pleasures are followed by sorrows, but the diligence of virtue and the prudent management of life always offer pure and safer pleasures.

William James

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

William James

To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,

William James

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

Juan Jimenez

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

James Joyce

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

James Joyce

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Frida Kahlo

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.

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.

Immanuel Kant

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Kavvadias

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

Kawabata

“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Kawabata

Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

John Keats

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Kierkegaard

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Kipling

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Arthur Koestler

“Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality;

Arthur Koestler

“Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled, That changing one, you change the other too;.

Kunanbaev

Lazy people are always hypocrites.

Wanda Landowska

You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way.

Wanda Landowska

I never practice; I always play.

Laozi

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Laozi

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lenin

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Vinci da Leonardo

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

Doris Lessing

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

Primo Levi

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

John Locke

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Lucian

“A monkey is always a monkey," says the proverb, "even if he has birth-tokens of gold." Although you have a book in your hand and read all the time, you do not under­stand a single thing that you read, but you are like the donkey that listens to the lyre and wags his ears.

Rosa Luxemburg

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

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

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Andre Malraux

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Thomas Mann

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius

Karl Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Karl Marx

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Maupassant

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.

Freddie Mercury

I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me

Fatima Mernissi

The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.

Michelangelo

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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.

Henry Miller

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

Henry Miller

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

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.

Monet

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Monet

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Montaigne

“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”

Montesquieu

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Montesquieu

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Montesquieu

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montessori

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.

Jim Morrison

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

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.

Mozart

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

Pablo Neruda

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.

Aziz Nesin

I perceive that you will run away.. I can't beg, I can't run But leave your voice with me

Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Nietzsche

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings. Always darker, emptier and simpler.

Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Nietzsche

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Anais Nin

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

Novalis

Where are we really going? Always home.

George Orwell

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Bismarck von Otto

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Ovid

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Amos Oz

I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.

Okot P_Bitek

I do not understand/The way of foreigners/But I do not despise their customs./Why should you despise yours?

Charlie Parker

Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.

Dorothy Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Valery Paul

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Octavio Paz

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Pessoa

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Petrarca

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Edith Piaf

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

Edith Piaf

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

Edith Piaf

Love goes on a journey, like I do One day I'll find it By the time I see its face I'll recognize it right away.

Astor Piazzolla

For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet.

Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Sylvia Plath

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Plato

Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

The community which has neither poverty nor great riches will always have the noblest principles.

Elder the Pliny

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Plotinus

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

Plotinus

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Plutarch

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

A. Edgar Poe,

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Jackson Pollock

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

Jackson Pollock

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Karl Popper

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Elvis Presley

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Elvis Presley

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Elvis Presley

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Elvis Presley

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Marcel Proust

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Pythagoras

Do not look out for happiness, it is always within you

Wilhelm Reich

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man

Renoir

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

Renoir

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.”

Rilke

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rochefoucauld

In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.

Carl Rogers

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

Carl Rogers

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Rolland

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

Christina Rossetti

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Rousseau

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

de Sade,Marquis

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”

de Sade,Marquis

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

Carl Sandburg

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?”

Carl Sandburg

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Saramago

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Saramago

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

Saramago

A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Saramago

Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

Sartre

There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Virginia Satir

“Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference”

Schopenhauer

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.

Schopenhauer

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Compay Segundo

have learned from those who know how to preserve the tradition of music. I play music the way it used to be played.

Leopold Senghor

Now, try to put on a black skin for five minutes. I know you find this hard to do, but there is no other way to get the living feel of our situation.

Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them

Ahmed Shawqiν

My homeland is always in my mind, even when I am in paradise.

Upton Sinclair

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

Skinner

I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Skinner

The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Skinner

A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

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

An honest man is always a child.

Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.

Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Kim Sowol

South or north, or east, my body floats away, just look at it, the shining of hope, the faraway distances the stars light.

John Steinbeck

You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.

Stendhal

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Stendhal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Stendhal

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Igor Stravinsky

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

Talleyrand

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Talleyrand

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

William Thackeray

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Henry Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Leo Tolstoy

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Toulouse

These people annoy me. They want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. Look, it is so easy to finish things.

Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

John Updike

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising.

Paul Valery

Always start again.

Vonnegut

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Walt Whitman

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Durant Will

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves

Manos Xatzidakis

They say that artists are either communists or homosexuals. Anyway, I am not a communist…

Iannis Xenakis

"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one..."

B. W. Yeats

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.