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Gabriel García Márquez zitat: “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Gabriel García Márquez Foto

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Es ist nicht wahr, dass Menschen aufhören, Träume zu verfolgen, weil sie alt werden, sie werden alt, weil sie aufhören, Träume zu verfolgen.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Oscar Wilde zitat: “Every woman is a rebel.”
Oscar Wilde Foto

“Every woman is a rebel.”
Jede Frau ist eine Rebellin.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Paulo Coelho Foto

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
Liebe ist eine ungezähmte Kraft. Wenn wir versuchen, es zu kontrollieren, zerstört es uns. Wenn wir versuchen, es einzusperren, versklavt es uns. Wenn wir versuchen, es zu verstehen, fühlen wir uns verloren und verwirrt.

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Gore Vidal Foto

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
Stil ist zu wissen, wer du bist, was du sagen willst, und keinen Unterschied zu machen.

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Milan Kundera Foto
Samuel Goldwyn Foto

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) American film producer (1879-1974).

Misattributed

Ovid Foto

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
Laßt andere die alten Zeiten preisen; Ich bin froh, dass ich in diesen geboren wurde.

Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet
Octavia E. Butler Foto

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”

Octavia E. Butler buch Parable of the Talents

Variante: In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
Quelle: Parable of the Talents

Emile Zola Foto

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
Sünde sollte etwas Erlesenes sein, mein lieber Junge.

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
Victor Hugo Foto

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
(Die) Musik drückt (das) aus, was nicht gesagt werden kann und worüber zu schweigen unmöglich ist.

Victor Hugo buch William Shakespeare

Ce qu’on ne peut dire et ce qu’on ne peut taire, la musique l’exprime.
Part I, Book II, Chapter IV
William Shakespeare (1864)
Variante: Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
Quelle: Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

Oscar Wilde Foto

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
Sie haben versprochen, dass Träume wahr werden können. Doch sie haben vergessen zu erwähnen, dass Albträume auch Träume sind.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Terry Pratchett Foto

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
Fünf Ausrufezeichen, das sichere Zeichen eines verrückten Geistes.

Terry Pratchett buch Reaper Man

Variante: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Quelle: Reaper Man

William Shakespeare Foto

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
Gib dem Leid Wörter; Denn Kummer, der nicht spricht, Strickt ein eisernes Herz und gebietet ihm, zu brechen.

Variante: The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
Quelle: Macbeth

Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
Wenn wir müde sind, werden wir von Ideen angegriffen, die wir vor langer Zeit erobert haben.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Mark Twain Foto

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
Mach immer was richtig ist. Es wird die Hälfte der Menschheit befriedigen und die andere in Erstaunen versetzen.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

To the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (February 16, 1901).
Variante: Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

Bertrand Russell Foto

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Von allen Formen der Vorsicht ist die Vorsicht in der Liebe vielleicht die tödlichste für das wahre Glück.

Bertrand Russell buch The Conquest of Happiness

Quelle: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Jim Valvano Foto
Abraham Lincoln Foto

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Die meisten Menschen sind so glücklich, wie sie sein wollen.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Often misquoted as: "I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." or "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
This quote is not found in the various Lincoln sources which can be searched online (e.g. Gutenberg). Niether does Lincoln appear more generally to use the phrase "making up {one's} mind". The saying was first quoted, ascribed to Lincoln but with no source given, in 1914 by Frank Crane and several times subsequently by him in altered versions. It was later quoted in How to Get What You Want (1917) by Orison Swett Marden (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1917), 74, again without source. Alternative versions quoted are: "I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" and "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."


Quelle: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/20/happy-minds/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPeople%20are%20about%20as%20happy,up%20their%20minds%20to%20be.%E2%80%9D&text=Remember%20Lincoln's%20saying%20that%20%E2%80%9Cfolks,up%20their%20minds%20to%20be.%E2%80%9D

Curiously in later books Crane, e.g. Four Minute Essays, 1919, Adventures in Common Sense, 1920, "21", 1930, Crane mentions other routes to happiness and does not again use this quote.

Marden used a great many quotes in his writings, without giving sources. Whilst sources for many of the quotes can be found, this is not true for all. For instance he mentions another story in which Lincoln says "Madam, you have not a peg to hang your case on"; this also does not seem to found in Lincoln sources.

Elias Canetti Foto

“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

Quelle: The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

Stephen King Foto

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
Was mich persönlich betrifft, Sie können meine Waffe haben, aber mein Buch bekommen Sie nur, wenn Sie es aus meinen kalten toten Fingern zwingen.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Wenn es dunkel genug ist, können Sie die Sterne sehen.

Widely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on the internet; however, a presumably definitive source of Emerson's works at http://www.rwe.org fails to confirm any occurrence of this phrase across his works. This phrase is found in remarks attributed to Charles A. Beard in Arthur H. Secord, "Condensed History Lesson", Readers' Digest, February 1941, p. 20; but the origin has not been determined. Possibly confused with a passage in "Illusions" in which Emerson discusses his experience in the "Star Chamber": "our lamps were taken from us by the guide, and extinguished or put aside, and, on looking upwards, I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads, and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure. Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, “The stars are in the quiet sky,” &c., and I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture. Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead, reflecting the light of a half–hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect."
Misattributed

Abraham Lincoln Foto

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Zerstöre ich meine Feinde nicht, wenn ich sie zu meinen Freunden mache?

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

His response when "accused of treating his opponents with too much courtesy and kindness, and when it was pointed out to him that his whole duty was to destroy them", as quoted in More New Testament Words (1958) by William Barclay; either this anecdote or Lincoln's reply may have been adapted from a reply attributed to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund:
:* Some courtiers reproached the Emperor Sigismond that, instead of destroying his conquered foes, he admitted them to favour. “Do I not,” replied the illustrious monarch, “effectually destroy my enemies, when I make them my friends?”
::* "Daily Facts" in The Family Magazine Vol. IV (1837), p. 123 http://books.google.de/books?id=aW0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123&dq=destroy; also quoted as simply in "Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?" in The Sociable Story-teller (1846)
Disputed

Jane Austen Foto

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
Ich wünsche mir, ebenso wie alle anderen, vollkommen glücklich zu sein. aber wie alle anderen muss es auf meine Art sein.

Jane Austen buch Sense and Sensibility

Quelle: Sense and Sensibility

Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Judy Garland Foto
Abraham Lincoln Foto

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Mein bester Freund ist ein Mensch, der mir ein Buch gibt, das ich noch nicht gelesen habe.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Oscar Wilde Foto

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Ein Elternteil zu verlieren, kann als Unglück angesehen werden. Beide zu verlieren, scheint nachlässig.

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Henry David Thoreau Foto

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Wenn wir ruhig und bereit genug sind, werden wir in jeder Enttäuschung Entschädigung finden.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Quelle: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Stephen King Foto

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Jedes Wort, nach dem Sie in einem Thesaurus suchen müssen, ist das falsche Wort. Es gibt keine Ausnahmen zu dieser Regel.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Bruce Lee Foto

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
Fürchte dich nicht vor dem Scheitern. - Nicht Misserfolg, sondern geringes Ziel ist das Verbrechen. Bei großen Versuchen ist es herrlich, sogar zu scheitern.

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121
Quelle: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Colette Foto

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
Ich ging, um die wenigen persönlichen Gegenstände zu sammeln, die ... für mich von unschätzbarem Wert waren: meine Katze, meine Entschlossenheit zu reisen, und meine Einsamkeit.

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Confucius Foto

“Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest.”
Der Mensch hat dreierlei Wege, klug zu Handeln; erstens durch Nachdenken, das ist das Edelste, zweitens durch Nachahmen, das ist das Leichteste, und drittens durch Erfahrung, das ist das Bitterste.

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

The Analects, as reported in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 279.
Attributed

Oscar Wilde Foto

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
Ich kannte nichts als Schatten und ich dachte, dass sie echt sind.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

William Shakespeare Foto
Sigmund Freud Foto

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Rückblickend werden Sie eines Tages die Jahre des Kampfes als die Schönsten erleben.

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
James Joyce Foto

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Quelle: Ulysses

Karl Marx Foto

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xyc9AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Die+Philosophen+haben+die+Welt+nur+verschieden%22+%22es+kommt+aber+darauf+an+sie+zu+ver%C3%A4ndern%22&pg=PA72#v=onepage
"Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15; these words are also engraved upon his grave.
First published as an appendix to the pamphlet Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy by Friedrich Engels (1886)
Quelle: Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
Es gibt nur die Gejagten und die Jäger, die Emsigen und die Müden.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

Oscar Wilde Foto

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
Verschiebe nicht auf morgen, was genauso gut auf übermorgen verschoben werden kann.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Lucille Ball Foto

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Variante: I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Variante: Id rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.

Gabriel García Márquez Foto

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
Alle Menschen haben drei Leben: öffentlich, privat und geheim.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Quelle: Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

Mark Twain Foto

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
Ein Teil des Erfolgsgeheimnisses im Leben besteht darin, das zu essen, was man mag, und das Essen in sich selbst kämpfen zu lassen.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
Alle Männer haben Ängste, aber die Tapferen legen ihre Ängste ab und gehen vorwärts, manchmal zum Tod, aber immer zum Sieg.

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Quelle: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Stephen King Foto

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
Zeit braucht alles, ob Sie es wollen oder nicht.

Stephen King buch The Green Mile

Quelle: The Green Mile

Teresa of Ávila Foto

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”
Lass dich von nichts stören, nichts erschreckt dich. Alle Dinge vergehen. Gott ändert sich nicht. Geduld erreicht alles.

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint
Oscar Wilde Foto

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
Es gibt nur eine Sünde, und das ist die Dummheit.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Quelle: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

William Faulkner Foto

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
Sei kein Schriftsteller. Sei ein Schreiberling.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Vincent Van Gogh Foto

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
Die Fischer wissen, dass das Meer gefährlich und der Sturm schrecklich ist, aber sie haben diese Gefahren nie als ausreichenden Grund gefunden, an Land zu bleiben.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Vincent Van Gogh Foto

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Große Dinge entstehen durch eine Reihe kleiner Dinge die zusammen kommen.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

In his letter to Theo, from The Hague, 22 October 1882, http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/11/237.htm
1880s, 1882

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Wir müssen als Brüder zusammenleben oder als Narren zusammen zugrunde gehen.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, A Christmas Sermon (1967)
Variante: We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.

John Locke Foto

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Ich habe immer gedacht, dass die Handlungen der Menschen die besten Interpreten ihrer Gedanken sind.

John Locke buch An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Book 1, Ch. 3, sec. 3
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Variante: The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Oscar Wilde Foto

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
Durch Musik fühlt man sich so romantisch - zumindest geht es einem immer auf die Nerven - was heutzutage auch so ist.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Albert Einstein Foto

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
Logik bringt dich von A nach B. Deine Phantasie bringt dich überall hin.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variante: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.

Stephen King Foto

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
Ein bisschen Talent ist eine gute Sache, wenn Sie Schriftsteller werden wollen. Die einzige wirkliche Anforderung ist jedoch die Fähigkeit, sich an jede Narbe zu erinnern.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Bertrand Russell Foto

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
Es gibt zwei Beweggründe, ein Buch zu lesen: den einen, dass man Freude daran hat; den anderen, dass man damit prahlen kann.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Oscar Wilde Foto

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
Man sollte niemals einer Frau vertrauen, die einem ihr wirkliches Alter sagt. Eine Frau, die einem dies sagen würde, würde einem jedes beliebige sagen.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Jane Austen Foto

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
Ich bin das glücklichste Wesen der Welt. Vielleicht haben das schon andere Leute gesagt, aber keine mit einer solchen Gerechtigkeit. Ich bin sogar glücklicher als Jane; sie lächelt nur, ich lache.

Jane Austen buch Stolz und Vorurteil

Quelle: Pride and Prejudice

Charles Baudelaire Foto

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”
Das Leben hat nur einen wahren Reiz: den Reiz des Spiels. Aber was ist, wenn wir gleichgültig sind, ob wir gewinnen oder verlieren?

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Oscar Wilde Foto

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
Ziel des Lebens ist Selbstentwicklung. Das eigene Wesen völlig zur Entfaltung zu bringen, das ist unsere Bestimmung.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Abraham Lincoln Foto

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Gib mir sechs Stunden einen Baum zu fällen und ich werde die ersten vier mit dem Schärfen der Axt verbringen.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Variante: If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.

Charles Bukowski Foto

“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
Baby, sagte ich. Ich bin ein Genie. Nur weiß das keiner außer mir.

Charles Bukowski buch Factotum

Quelle: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31

Bob Dylan Foto

“All I can be is me- whoever that is.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Jack London Foto

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
Ein Knochen für den Hund ist keine Wohltätigkeit. Nächstenliebe ist der Knochen, der mit dem Hund geteilt wird, wenn Sie genauso hungrig sind wie der Hund.

Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist

"Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, 2013
Variante: Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Winston S. Churchill Foto

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
Nichts im Leben ist so erheiternd, als ohne Ergebnis beschossen zu werden.

Winston S. Churchill buch The Story of the Malakand Field Force

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Variante: There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
Jeder tiefe Denker hat mehr Angst davor, verstanden zu werden als missverstanden zu werden.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Oscar Wilde Foto

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
Höre nichts Böses, sprich nichts Böses, und du wirst nicht zu Cocktailparties eingeladen werden.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Stephen King Foto

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
Wir erfinden Schrecken, um uns der Realität zu stellen.

Stephen King (1947) American author
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Foto

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Quelle: Life's Little Instruction Book

Terry Pratchett Foto
Emile Zola Foto

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.”
Ich kümmere mich wenig um Schönheit oder Perfektion. Die großen Jahrhunderte interessieren mich nicht. Alles, was mich interessiert, ist Leben, Kampf, Intensität. Ich fühle mich wohl in meiner Generation.

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

"My Hates" (1866).

Bruce Lee Foto

“Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
Balancieren Sie Ihre Gedanken mit Aktion. - Wenn Sie zu viel Zeit damit verbringen, über etwas nachzudenken, werden Sie es nie schaffen.

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Quelle: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 43

Elbert Hubbard Foto

“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
Erkläre es niemals - deine Freunde brauchen es nicht und deine Feinde werden dir sowieso nicht glauben.

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

The Motto Book (1907).
Variante: Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

Haruki Murakami Foto
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
Wir sind alle kaputt, so kommt Licht herein.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

This quotation was not crafted by Ernest Hemingway. Its exact genesis is uncertain, but QI hypothesizes that the 1929 statement by Hemingway and the 1992 lyric by Leonard Cohen both strongly influenced the evolution of the expression and its ascription. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/

Susan B. Anthony Foto
Ian Fleming Foto

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

Du lebst nur zweimal: Einmal, als du geboren bist Und einmal, wenn du dem Tod ins Gesicht siehst.

Ian Fleming buch You Only Live Twice

Quelle: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 11 : Anatomy Class

Gabriel García Márquez Foto

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”
Sex ist der Trost, den Sie haben, wenn Sie keine Liebe haben können.

Gabriel García Márquez buch Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Variante: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Quelle: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”
Denken Sie immer daran, dass Sie nicht nur das Recht haben, eine Einzelperson zu sein, sondern auch die Verpflichtung haben, eine Einzelperson zu sein.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
C.G. Jung Foto

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
Einsamkeit entsteht nicht dadurch, dass man keine Menschen um sich hat, sondern dadurch, dass man ihnen die Dinge, die einem wichtig erscheinen, nicht mitteilen kann.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Napoleon Hill Foto

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
Was auch immer ein menschlicher Geist ermessen und glauben kann, kann er erreichen.

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

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Variante: Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Quelle: Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

Albert Einstein Foto

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
Nur wenige Menschen sind in der Lage, mit Gleichmut Meinungen zu äußern, die sich von den Vorurteilen ihres sozialen Umfelds unterscheiden. Die meisten Menschen sind sogar nicht in der Lage, sich solche Meinungen zu bilden.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

The New Quotable Einstein
1950s, Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

Aristotle Foto

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
Ich betrachte den als mutiger, der seine Ängste überwindet, als den, der seine Feinde besiegt; denn der schwerste Sieg ist der über sich selbst.

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Peter F. Drucker Foto

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Das meiste, was wir als Führung bezeichnen, besteht darin, den Mitarbeitern die Arbeit zu erschweren.

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
Ah Frauen. Sie machen die Höhen höher und die Tiefen häufiger.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Niccolo Machiavelli Foto

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
Denn der Löwe ist nicht geschützt gegen die Schlingen und der Fuchs nicht gegen die Wölfe. Er muß also Fuchs sein, um die Schlingen zu kennen, und Löwe, um die Wölfe zu schrecken. Die sich nur auf die Löwennatur verstehen, sind nicht gut beraten.

Niccolo Machiavelli buch Der Fürst

Quelle: The Prince (1513), Ch. 18
Variant translations of portions of this passage:
Every one admits how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live with integrity and not with craft. Nevertheless our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have held good faith of little account, and have known how to circumvent the intellect of men by craft, and in the end have overcome those who have relied on their word.
Ch. 18. Concerning the Way in which Princes should keep Faith (as translated by W. K. Marriott)
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second.
Kontext: A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this.
Kontext: How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation. You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is therefore necessary to know well how to use both the beast and the man. This was covertly taught to princes by ancient writers, who relate how Achilles and many others of those princes were given to Chiron the centaur to be brought up, who kept them under his discipline; this system of having for teacher one who was half beast and half man is meant to indicate that a prince must know how to use both natures, and that the one without the other is not durable. A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.... those that have been best able to imitate the fox have succeeded best. But it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler.

John F. Kennedy Foto

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
Wir müssen die Zeit finden, anzuhalten und den Menschen zu danken, die unser Leben verändern.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Charles Bukowski Foto
Jean Paul Sartre Foto

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

Jean Paul Sartre buch Les mots

The Words (1964), speaking of his grandmother.

C.G. Jung Foto

“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

C.G. Jung buch Psychological Types

Quelle: Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation (1921), Ch. 1, p. 82
Kontext: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

Abraham Lincoln Foto

“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Vielleicht war der Charakter eines Mannes wie ein Baum und sein Ruf wie sein Schatten; der Schatten ist das, was wir darüber denken; Der Baum ist die echte Sache.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

As quoted in "Lincoln's Imagination" by Noah Brooks, in Scribner's Monthly (August 1879), p. 586 http://books.google.com/books?id=jOoGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA586
Posthumous attributions
Variante: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Henry David Thoreau Foto

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Wie vergeblich ist es, sich zu setzen, um zu schreiben, wenn Sie nicht aufgestanden sind, um zu leben.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

August 19, 1851
Journals (1838-1859)
Variante: How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Oscar Wilde Foto

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Einige Dinge sind kostbarer, weil sie nicht lange dauern.

Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Robert Fulghum Foto

“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”

Robert Fulghum buch All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Quelle: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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