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“When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading”
Als ich von den Gefahren des Trinkens las, hörte ich auf zu lesen.

“We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.”
Non enim omnis error stultitia est dicenda.

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
Die Leute kümmern sich nicht darum, wie viel Sie wissen, bis sie wissen, wie viel Sie sich interessieren.

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

“It's all in the mind.”
Es ist alles im Kopf.

“No one here gets out alive.”
Niemand hier kommt lebendig heraus.

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
Wer von Einsamkeit begeistert ist, ist entweder ein wildes Tier oder ein Gott.

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
Die größte Gefahr im Leben besteht darin, dass Sie zu viele Vorsichtsmaßnahmen treffen.

“If you are falling…. dive.”
Wenn Du fällst.... tauche.

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”

“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”

“Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
Wer seine Ängste überwunden hat, wird wirklich frei sein.

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
Sagen Sie den Menschen, dass es einen unsichtbaren Mann am Himmel gibt, der das Universum erschaffen hat, und die große Mehrheit wird Ihnen glauben. Sagen Sie ihnen, dass das Gemalte nass ist und sie müssen es berühren, um sich zu vergewissern.

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”

“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Greife das Böse an, das in dir ist, anstatt das Böse anzugreifen, das in anderen ist.

“Love would never leave us alone”
Liebe lässt uns nie alleine.

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Lesen zu lernen ist es, Licht ein Feuer; jede Silbe, die ausgeschrieben ist, ist ein Funke.

“You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.”
Man merkt, dass mit zunehmendem Alter kaum jemand weiß, wovon er spricht.

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
Misserfolg ist einfach eine neue Gelegenheit, dieses Mal intelligenter von vorne zu beginnen.

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Wenn ich wüsste, dass morgen der jüngste Tag wäre, würde ich heute noch ein Apfelbäumchen pflanzen.

“I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.”

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
Verwenden Sie das Telefon nicht. Die Leute sind nicht bereit, Ihnen zu antworten. Verwenden Sie Poesie.

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.

“There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.”

“When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.”

“Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.”

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
Was Sie in dieser Welt tun, ist eine belanglose Angelegenheit. Die Frage ist, was kann man die Leute glauben lassen, getan zu haben.

“Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.”
Die meisten unterhaltsamen Aktivitäten sind nicht selbstverständlich. Sie fordern eine Anstrengung, die man zunächst nicht machen will. Sobald die Interaktion jedoch ein Feedback zu den Fähigkeiten der Person liefert, wird sie in der Regel von sich aus belohnend.

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
Eine traurige Seele kann dich schneller töten als ein Keim, viel schneller.

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
Meine vergangenen Tage gehen mit mir. Sie halten Schritt, es sind graue Gesichter, die mir über die Schulter blicken.

“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”
Und du wünschst dir, ein Dichter zu sein; und du wünschst dir, ein Liebhaber zu sein.

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
Niemand ist jemals durch Geben arm geworden.

“If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and […] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
Wenn es darauf ankommt, lasse ich sie darüber nachdenken, was sie wollen. Wenn sie sich genug darum kümmern, was ich tue, dann bin ich schon besser als sie.

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
Wegen der Stürme haben die Bäume tiefere Wurzeln.

“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”
Der wahre Charakter eines Mannes kommt zum Vorschein, wenn er betrunken ist.

“What other people think of me is not my business.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Angst ist der Schwindel der Freiheit.

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
Wenn ich ein Herz daran hindern kann, zu brechen, Ich werde nicht umsonst leben.

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
Verschiebe nicht auf morgen, was genauso gut auf übermorgen verschoben werden kann.

“Your silence will not protect you.”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
Man kann das ganze Volk eine Zeit lang täuschen, und man kann einen Teil des Volkes die ganze Zeit täuschen, aber man kann nicht das gesamte Volk die ganze Zeit täuschen.

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Die meisten Leute sind andere Leute. Ihre Gedanken sind die Meinungen eines anderen, ihr Leben eine Mimikry, ihre Leidenschaften ein Zitat.

“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”

“To understand is to forgive.”

“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”

“Life is too short to learn German”
Das Leben ist zu kurz um Deutsch zu lernen.

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
Ein Mensch, der es wagt auch nur eine Stunde seiner Zeit, zu verschwenden, hat den Wert des Lebens nicht entdeckt.

“To be in company is not to be with someone, but to be in someone.”

“Charity and treating begin at home.”

“It is inevitable that the mind which does not have a place to turn to or any stable base will undergo change from hour to hour and from minute to minute due to the variety of its distractions, and by the things that come to it from outside it will be continually transformed into whatever occurs to it at any given moment.”

“What is at first small is often extremely large in the end. And so it happens that whoever deviates only a little from truth in the beginning is led farther and farther afield in the sequel, and to errors which are a thousand times as large.”
Was klein ist im Beginn wird oft am Ende überaus groß sein. Und so geschieht es, das wer im Anfange auch nur um ein Weniges von der Wahrheit abweicht, im Verlauf immer weiter und weiter und zu tausendmal größern Irrthümer fortgeführt wird.

“You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy", and the other "tyranny."”

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

“An unjust law is no law at all.”

“Fortune favours the brave.”
Fortis fortuna adiuvat.

“I was taught at school never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it.”

“The things that change are not our real life. Within us there is another body, another beauty. It belongs to that ray of light which never changes. We must discover how to mingle with it and become one with that unchanging thing. We must realize and understand this treasure of truth. That is why we have come to the world.”

“The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.”

“The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do”

“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”
Wenn du Tränen vergießt, wenn du die Sonne vermisst, vermisst du auch die Sterne.

“We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion.”

“One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.”

“World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.”

“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.”

“Let us live – we must die.”
Vivamus, moriendum est.

“No virtue is equal to the good of others and
no vice greater than hurting others.”

“The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.”
Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
Leben ist das, was passiert, während du andere Dinge im Kopf hast.

“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.”
Jemand, der nicht an Wunder glaubt, ist kein Realist.

“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”

“I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.”

“The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,
That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.”

“It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.”
Es ist unmöglich, schneller als das Licht zu reisen, und sicherlich nicht wünschenswert, da der Hut immer wieder wegweht.

“As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.”

“A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates”

“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”

“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”

“In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.”

“Here's how you can tell someone is your friend: A) You can tell them bad news, and they'll listen. B) You can tell them good news, and they'll help you celebrate.”

“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”

“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”

“I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.”

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”

“If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time … human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.”

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
Glauben Sie nichts, was Sie hören, und nur die Hälfte, die Sie sehen.

“Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.”

“Only the educated are free.”