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“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Man dabūt visu –
nelabo un labo,
man dabūt visu –
zemisko un svēto,
un naidu man
un mīlestību dabūt,
un neko labāku
es nevaru sev novēlēt.”
― Ojārs Vācietis, Dzeja

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Magnēts uzmeklē dzelzi un pievelk to, tāpat kā dzelzs pievelk magnētu. Taču drīz vien magnēts ar savu spēku tā iespaido dzelzi, ka tā pamazām pakļaujas, pati kļūstot par magnētu. Tad magnēts to atgrūž. Un meklē jaunu dzelzi.”
― Ēriks Marija Remarks

“Where are you?” She asked. “I have been searching all my life.” “Stop looking for me,” Love replied, “and I will find you.”
― Lang Leav, Lullabies

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.

good human beings save the world
so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead
it means I made it.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“Es tevi gribu
Cik labi, ar tevi var neizlikties,
Es tikai ar tevi gribu tikties,
Es gribu, lai tikai tu manī skaties, -
Kad tu manī skaties, es esmu patiess.
Kad tu manī skaties, es esmu patiess,
Mūsu dzīvē vēl simtiem vilcienu aties
Un tūkstošiem jūdžu būs jāiet vēl kājām
Un varbūt bez ūdens, bez sāls un bez mājām.
Bez ceļa, bez ūdens, bez sāls un bez mājām
Man liekas, mēs tūkstošiem jūdžu jau gājām.
Tavs skatiens bij traks, un tavs skatiens bij prātīgs,
Tavs augums kā rudzu maize bij sātīgs.
Tavs augums kā rudzu maize ir sātīgs,
Ta zeme, ko min tavas kājas, man patiks,
Pat sviedriem un asinīm saindēta
Tā zeme, ko min tavas kājas, būs svēta.
Šī zeme, ko min tavas kājas būs svēta.
Balti ķirši un sarkanas rozes zied sētā.
Kā laiku un telpu, un bezgalību
Es tevi gribu.”
― Imants Ziedonis, Kā laiku un telpu, un bezgalību..