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Victor-Marie Hugo was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time.

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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Toleration is the best religion.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Those who live are those who fight.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

To love beauty is to see light.

To love is to act.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

I’m religiously opposed to religion.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Conscience is God present in man.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Despotism is a long crime.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one’s soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

One sometimes says: ‘He killed himself because he was bored with life.’ One ought rather to say: ‘He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.’

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don’t always succeed.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

A library implies an act of faith.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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92 Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited U.S. Supreme Court justices and most influential American common law judges in history, noted for his long service, pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy—and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures.

Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice on the Supreme Court.

He previously served as a Brevet Colonel in the American Civil War, in which he was wounded three times, as an associate justice and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and as Weld Professor of Law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School.

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The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Simple people… are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ‘consistent’.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Every idea is an incitement… Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Knowledge like timber shouldn’t be mush use till they are seasoned.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Don’t be “consistent” but be simple true.

Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

When in doubt, do it.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one’s own moral aesthetic preferences.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

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94 Freddie Hubbard quotes

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Men are only as great as they are kind.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

10 February 2023 0 comment

Authors

85 Napoleon Hill quotes

written by quotegal71

Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill’s works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one’s life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve “success”.

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

It is always your next move.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

You give before you get.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The battle is all over except the “shouting” when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Think and grow rich.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

10 February 2023 0 comment

Musicians

50 Jimi Hendrix quotes

written by quotegal71

James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.

List of quotes

I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.

I’m gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.

If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

If it was up to me, there wouldn’t be no such thing as the establishment.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

All I’m writing is just what I feel, that’s all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they’re not gonna see nothin’ but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I’d go on and try to get it together.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

We have time, there’s no big rush.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we’re trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that’s tryin’ to come around.

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.

See, that’s nothing but blues, that’s all I’m singing about. It’s today’s blues.

Rock is so much fun. That’s what it’s all about – filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

My nature just changes.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.

Music is my religion.

Music is a safe kind of high.

Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

You don’t have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don’t have to keep flashing those words all the time.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead your made for life.

You have to give people something to dream on.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

It’s funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

7 February 2023 0 comment

Authors

86 Ernest Hemingway quotes

written by quotegal71

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which included his iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations.

Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

Notable works	The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms For Whom the Bell Tolls The Old Man and the Sea

List of quotes

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Never confuse movement with action.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Man is not made for defeat.

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

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

Never mistake motion for action.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

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

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

7 February 2023 0 comment

Artists

41 Vincent Van Gogh quotes

written by quotegal71

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history.

In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art.

Not commercially successful in his career, he struggled with severe depression and poverty, which eventually led to his suicide at age thirty-seven.

List of quotes

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

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Authors

71 Gustave Flaubert quotes

written by quotegal71

Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad.

According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, “in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality”.

He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

Gustave Flaubert

Notable works	Madame Bovary Sentimental Education Salammbô The Temptation of Saint Anthony Three Tales Bouvard et Pécuchet

List of quotes

Read much, but not many books.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Read in order to live.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

One mustn’t always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Writing is a dog’s life, but the only life worth living.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can’t see standing.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Exuberance is better than taste.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it’s almost a desire that you miss.

A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that’s the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Madame Bovary is myself.

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

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63 F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes

written by quotegal71

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories.

Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Notable works	The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men, Tender Is the Night

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

You can stroke people with words.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Action is character.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it’s a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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128 George Eliot quotes

written by quotegal71

Mary Ann Evans known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876).

Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside.

Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people” and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Consequences are unpitying.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

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

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

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

1 February 2023 0 comment

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53 Bob Dylan quotes

written by quotegal71

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963) and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements.

His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.

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Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

There is nothing so stable as change.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

31 January 2023 0 comment

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Just go.	Anonymous
Take me anywhere.	Anonymous
If not now, when?	Anonymous
I need vitamin sea.	Anonymous
The world is yours.	Anonymous
To travel is to live.	Hans Christian Andersen
When in doubt, travel.	Anonymous
To travel is to evolve.	Pierre Bernardo
Adventure is worthwhile.	Aesop
Oh the places you’ll go.	Dr. Seuss
I read; I travel; I become.	Derek Walcott
Travel teaches toleration.	Benjamin Disraeli
You travel for the unknown.	Anonymous
Collect moments, not things.	Anonymous
Life is an adventure, dare it.	Anonymous
The journey is the destination.	Dan Eldon
Not all those who wander are lost.	J.R.R. Tolkien
Travel before you run out of time.	Anonymous
Travel is the ultimate inspiration.	Anonymous
The journey not the arrival matters.	T. S. Eliot
Life is short and the world is wide.	Anonymous
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.	David Mitchell
I’m in love with places I’ve been to.	Anonymous
Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.	Anonymous
Nature is one of our greatest teachers.	Anonymous
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.	Confucius
The mountains are calling and I must go.	Anonymous
You don’t have to be rich to travel well.	Eugene Fodor
Take only memories, leave only footprints.	Chief Seattle
Do it now. The future is promised to none.	Anonymous
People don’t take trips, trips take people.	John Steinbeck
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.	George Bernard Shaw
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.	Yogi Berra
I want to make memories all over the world.	Anonymous
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.	Neale Donald Walsch
Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.	Anonymous
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.	Helen Keller
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.	Peter Hoeg
He who would travel happily must travel light.	Antoine de St. Exupery
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.	Susan Sontag
This heart of mine was made to travel the world.	Anonymous
I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way.	Carl Sagan
It feels good to be lost in the right direction.	Anonymous
It is not down in any map; true places never are.	Herman Melville
Travel brings power and love back into your life.	Rumi
Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.	Tennessee Williams
Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.	Matthew Karsten
Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.	Paulo Coelho
Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.	Anonymous
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.	Anonymous

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