Diddou > Diddou's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 111

« previous 1 2 3 4 next »

#1

“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected

tags: future, silence

1837 likes

#2

“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

tags: mind, new-ideas

1457 likes

#3

“Prudenta lui ii egala averea. Era de o umilinta excesiva. Niciodata orgoliul nu-l prinsese in capcanele sale. Acest negustor se facea atat de mic, de bland, de placut si de sarac la curte, in fata printeselor, regilor si favoritilor, incat aceasa modestie si bonomie ii pazisera afacerea.”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: catherine-de-medicis

2 likes

#4

“Femeile al caror suflet si ale caror intentii sunt pure, se folosesc de virtuti pentru a-i domina pe barbatii pe care-i iubesc; dar femeile care nu le vor binele ii guverneaza servindu-se de cusururile lor.”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: catherine-de-medicis

4 likes

#5

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

tags: contradiction, truth

1017 likes

#6

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

4287 likes

#7

“Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

550 likes

#8

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: procrastination

997 likes

#9

“Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: books, life, literature, men, scarlett-o-hara, women

203 likes

#10

“Respirația mi se pare schimbul cel mai important pe care-l facem cu Lumea. Cum adică? Trag aer în piept. Aer care e plin de respirațiile tuturor animalelor, tuturor plantelor. De respirațiile părinților, bunicilor, străinilor, cunoscuților... Îl trag în piept. Mă hrănesc cu el și îl eliberez din nou în Lume. Cu mine inclusă în el. Hm... și imediat sunt respirată de toată omenirea. De tot Universul. Și mai sunt oameni care se simt singuri... Trag aer. În plămânii mei ajunge aer consumat de Shakespeare, de Mozart, de Isus... dar și aer folosit de criminalii omenirii...”
― Oana Pellea, Jurnal 2003 - 2009

tags: inspirational-life

10 likes

#11

“‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: afghanistan, bright, country, education, marriage, smart, war, young-women

354 likes

#12

“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

108 likes

#13

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird

1773 likes

#14

“And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time ad space without you.”
― Tim Winton

4 likes

#15

“may my faith always be
at the end of the day

like a hummingbird...returning
to its favorite flower.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

tags: deep-thoughts, faith, flowers, hummingbird, life-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, profound, spiritual, sunset

51 likes

#16

“He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

tags: complex, emotions, feelings, love, lovers, profound

14 likes

#17

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: big-names, character, chaste, chasticity, clean, cleanliness, decency, discipline, flamboyance, flamboyant, good-choice, good-woman, her, integrity, ladies, lady, luxurious, luxury, money, move, name, names, opulence, profound, pure, purity, sensitivity, she, sound-judgment, virtue, wisdom, woman-of-virtue

87 likes

#18

“When a writer dies, he becomes his books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, profound, writing-life

24 likes

#19

“You too must seek the sun...”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

tags: inspiration, life, profound, truth

43 likes

#20

“You don't ask questions of an attic”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

tags: poetic, profound, telling

3 likes

#21

“God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

tags: chapter-21, courage, death, endurance, joy, life, optimism, steadfastness, strength, suicide

178 likes

#22

“Cand in sfarsit, aveam ceea ce dorisem, ma asezam la masa si, la prima opinteala, mi se parea ca sunt de o solemnitate idioata, ca am intrat intr-un rol care nu mi se potrivea. Si cum era de asteptat, totul se termina cu o noua amanare. Alteori ma exaspera foamea, o foame patologica, insuportabila ce nu putea fi astamparata in niciun fel, iar cand mi se sfarseau si aceste pretexte stravezii, imi venea in ajutor insasi natura: prea cald, prea frig, foarte umed, inainte de ploaie, dupa ploaie...”
― Augustin Buzura, Raport asupra singurătăţii

1 likes

#23

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

1419 likes

#24

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

1352 likes

#25

“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

474 likes

#26

“Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.”
― Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et Pensées: Caractères et Anecdotes

tags: ages-of-man, misanthropy

51 likes

#27

“Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did?”
― Nicolas Chamfort

24 likes

#28

“When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.”
― Nicolas de Chamfort

tags: don-t-know, know, liked, social, teach, world

23 likes

#29

“Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.”
― Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

tags: happiness, pleasure, truth

21 likes

#30

“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”
― Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

tags: boundaries, parenting

380 likes

« previous 1 2 3 4 next »

All Quotes

Diddou > Diddou's Quotes

Tags From Diddou’s Quotes