Scarlett Cîmpeanu > Scarlett's Quotes

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
― Anais Nin

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

“A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“A University degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal.
Enter into the happiness, and burst.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, يوميات الحزن العادي