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Jean Paul Sartre Foto
Paulo Coelho Foto

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
Jeder ignorierte Segen wird zum Fluch.

Paulo Coelho buch Der Alchimist

Quelle: The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho Foto

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
Warten ist schmerzhaft. Vergessen ist schmerzhaft. Aber nicht zu wissen, was davon man tun soll, ist das Schlimmste.

Paulo Coelho buch By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variante: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Quelle: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Gabriel García Márquez Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Es ist einer der Segnungen alter Freunde, dass Sie es sich leisten können, mit ihnen dumm zu sein.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Quelle: Emerson in His Journals

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
Wir müssen sehen, dass das Ziel, das wir suchen, eine Gesellschaft ist, die in Frieden mit sich selbst ist, eine Gesellschaft, die mit ihrem Gewissen leben kann.

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

1960s, How Long, Not Long (1965)
Kontext: I must admit to you that there are still jail cells waiting for us, and dark and difficult moments. But if we will go on with the faith that nonviolence and its power can transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows, we will be able to change all of these conditions. And so I plead with you this afternoon as we go ahead: remain committed to nonviolence. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding. We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.

Richard Bach Foto

“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”
Der Glaube besteht darin, die Beteuerungen der Seele anzunehmen; der Unglaube darin, sie zu leugnen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Das ultimative Maß eines Menschen ist nicht das, wo er in Momenten der Bequemlichkeit und des Wohlstandes steht, sondern wo er in Zeiten der Krisen, Herausforderungen und Kontroversen steht.

Martin Luther King, Jr. buch Strength to Love

Strength to Love, p. 25
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
Kontext: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others.

Victor Hugo Foto

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
Lieben oder geliebt haben, das ist genug. Fragen Sie nichts weiter. Es gibt keine andere Perle in den dunklen Falten des Lebens.

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Variante: To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Quelle: Les Misérables

Jack Kerouac Foto

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”
Es macht mich immer stolz, die Welt zu lieben, die im Vergleich so einfach ist.

Jack Kerouac buch Big Sur

Quelle: Big Sur

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
Glück kann nicht bereist, besessen, verdient, getragen oder verbraucht werden. Glück ist die spirituelle Erfahrung, jede Minute mit Liebe, Anmut und Dankbarkeit zu leben.

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer
Napoleon Hill Foto

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
Hegen Sie Ihre Visionen und Ihre Träume, denn sie sind die Kinder Ihrer Seele, die Blaupausen für Ihre endgültigen Errungenschaften.

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

As quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 53

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
Wütend und halb verliebt in sie und unglaublich leid, wandte ich mich ab.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
So kämpfen wir weiter, wie Boote gegen den Strom, und unablässig treibt es uns zurück in die Vergangenheit.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Closing lines
Quelle: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)

George Carlin Foto

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Denken Sie daran, wie dumm der Durchschnittsmensch ist, und stellen Sie fest, dass die Hälfte von ihnen dümmer ist.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Doin' It Again, Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics (1990)
Kontext: I know that. Some people don't want you to mention certain things. Some people don't want you to say this, some people don't want you to say that. Some people think if you mention some things they might happen. Some people are really fucking stupid. Did you ever notice that, how many stupid people you run into during the day? Goddamn there's a lot of stupid bastards walking around. Carry a pad and pencil with you, you'll wind up with thirty or forty names by the end of the day. Think about this; think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that.

Charles Bukowski Foto

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
Die freie Seele ist selten, aber du weißt es, wenn du es siehstim Grunde, weil du dich gut fühlst, sehr gut, wenn du in der Nähe bist oder mit ihnen …

Charles Bukowski buch Tales of Ordinary Madness

Tales of ordinary madness (1967-83)
Variante: .. the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them...
Quelle: Tales of Ordinary Madness

Henry David Thoreau Foto

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
Ich habe drei Stühle in meinem Haus: einen für die Einsamkeit, zwei für die Freundschaft und drei für die Gesellschaft.

Henry David Thoreau buch Walden

Quelle: Walden

Confucius Foto

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Respektiere dich selbst und andere werden dich respektieren.

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

Quelle: Sayings of Confucius

Robert M. Pirsig Foto

“The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.”

Robert M. Pirsig buch Zen und die Kunst ein Motorrad zu warten

Quelle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 20
Kontext: Zen is the "spirit of the valley." The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.”
Es ist leicht, für andere zu leben; jeder tut es. Ich fordere Sie auf, für sich selbst zu leben.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

May 3, 1845
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

Gustave Flaubert Foto

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Reisen macht bescheiden. Man sieht welch winzigen Platz man in der Welt einnimmt.

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
Paulo Coelho Foto

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
Die Menschen sind jederzeit in der Lage, das zu tun, wovon sie träumen.

Paulo Coelho buch Der Alchimist

Quelle: The Alchemist

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
Vergebung ist keine gelegentliche Handlung, sondern eine konstante Haltung.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Winston S. Churchill zitat: “It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”
Winston S. Churchill Foto

“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 168, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Douglas Adams Foto
Woody Allen Foto

“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”
Ich wurde aus dem College geworfen, weil ich bei der Metaphysik-Prüfung geschummelt hatte; ich schaute in die Seele meines Tischnachbarn.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Standup Comic (1999)
Quelle: Annie Hall: Screenplay

Leo Buscaglia Foto

“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”
Liebe ist immer mit offenen Armen. Wenn Sie Ihre Arme wegen der Liebe schließen, werden Sie feststellen, dass Sie nur sich selbst in der Hand halten.

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
Ist es nicht hübsch, das zu denken?

Ernest Hemingway buch The Sun Also Rises

Quelle: The Sun Also Rises

Henry Ford Foto

“My best friend is one who brings out the best in me”
Mein bester Freund ist derjenige, der das Beste in mir hervorbringt.

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Actually due to Harris Weinstock: "My best friend is the man who can bring out of me my best, and your best friend is the one who tends to bring out the best in you" (May 1914) Attributed to Henry Ford as early as 1948.
Misattributed

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
Wir wären zusammen und hätten unsere Bücher und wären nachts warm im Bett zusammen mit offeneM Fenster und die Sterne leuchten.

Ernest Hemingway buch Paris – Ein Fest fürs Leben

Variante: Where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
Quelle: A Moveable Feast

Charles Lamb Foto

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist

Quoted in "Table Talk" http://books.google.com/books?id=LIxUAAAAcAAJ&q=%22greatest+pleasure+I+know+is+to+do+a+good+action+by+stealth+and+to+have+it+found+out+by+accident%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage in The Athenaeum magazine (4 January 1834).

John Wooden Foto
Gabriel García Márquez Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
Wenn Persönlichkeit eine ununterbrochene Reihe erfolgreicher Gesten ist, dann war etwas Großartiges an ihm.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

Gabriel García Márquez Foto
Pythagoras Foto

“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Sect. 30, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon (2007) by Robert J. Scully, Marlan O. Scully, p. 11

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
Die Schaffung von tausend Wäldern ist in einer Eichel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Charles Bukowski Foto

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
Der kürzeste Abstand zwischen zwei Punkten ist oft unerträglich.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Richard Bach Foto

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variante: You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
Quelle: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Woody Allen Foto

“Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”
Liebe ist die Antwort, aber während man auf sie wartet, stellt der Sex ein paar ganz gute Fragen.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Also found http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22love+is+the+answer%22#search_anchor in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

Albert Einstein Foto

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Ich bin genug von einem Künstler, um frei auf meine Vorstellungskraft zurückgreifen zu können. Fantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen. Das Wissen ist begrenzt. Imagination umkreist die Welt.

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

1920s, Viereck interview (1929)

Agatha Christie Foto

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
Es ist ein merkwürdiger Gedanke, aber erst wenn man Leute sieht, die lächerlich aussehen, merkt man, wie sehr man sie liebt.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Quelle: An Autobiography

Ernest Hemingway Foto
Gabriel García Márquez Foto

“There is always something left to love.”
Es gibt immer etwas zu lieben.

Gabriel García Márquez buch One Hundred Years of Solitude

Quelle: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Richard Bach Foto

“Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variante: All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you

P.G. Wodehouse Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“It takes two to make an accident.”
Es braucht zwei, um einen Unfall zu machen.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

John Steinbeck Foto

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
Vielleicht hat jeder auf der ganzen verdammten Welt gegenseitige Angst.

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Quelle: Of Mice and Men

George Eliot Foto

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
Wofür leben wir eigentlich, wenn es nicht dazu ist, uns gegenseitig das Leben leichter zu machen?

George Eliot buch Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)
Kontext: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

Paulo Coelho Foto

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
Die Leute lernen nie etwas, indem man ihnen sagt, sie müssen es selbst herausfinden.

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Quelle: Veronika Decides to Die

John Ruskin Foto

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
Unvollkommenheit zu verbannen heißt, den Ausdruck zu zerstören, die Anstrengung zu kontrollieren, die Vitalität zu lähmen.

John Ruskin buch The Stones of Venice

Quelle: The Stones of Venice

Marcus Tullius Cicero Foto

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
Lesen Sie bei jeder Wartezeit; zu allen Stunden lesen; in der Freizeit lesen; in Zeiten der Arbeit lesen; lesen, wie man hineingeht; Lesen Sie, wie man ausgeht. Die Aufgabe des gebildeten Geistes ist einfach ausgedrückt: Lesen, um zu führen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
George Bernard Shaw Foto
Orson Welles Foto

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
Mein Arzt sagte mir, ich solle auf ein ausgiebiges Abendessen für Vier verzichten. Es sei denn, es gibt drei andere Leute.

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Confucius Foto

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Ich höre und ich vergesse. Ich sehe und ich erinnere mich. Ich tue und ich verstehe.

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

Xunzi in the Xunzi (book)
Misattributed, Chinese

Helen Keller Foto

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
Stell Dich Deinen Mängeln und lerne sie kennen; doch lass' Dich nicht von ihnen schulmeistern. Lass Dir von ihnen Geduld, Güte und Einsicht lehren. Stell dich deinen Mängeln und erkenne sie an; doch lass dich nicht von ihnen beherrschen. Lass sie dich Geduld, Güte und Einsich lehren.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”
Ich wollte dich nicht zum Abschied küssen - das war die Schwierigkeit - ich wollte dich zur guten Nacht küssen - und das ist ein großer Unterschied.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Martin Luther King, Jr. zitat: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Ungerechtigkeit ist überall eine Gefahr für Gerechtigkeit.

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

1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
Kontext: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, no American can afford to be apathetic about the problem of racial justice. It is a problem that meets every man at his front door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
Unser Hauptbedürfnis im Leben ist, jemanden zu haben, der uns dazu bringt, das zu tun, was wir können.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

Agatha Christie Foto

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
Die Liebe einer Mutter zu ihrem Kind ist mit nichts auf der Welt zu vergleichen. Sie kennt kein Gesetz, kein Mitleid. Sie riskiert alles und tritt erbarmungslos alles nieder, was ihr im Weg steht.

Agatha Christie buch The Hound of Death

Quelle: The Hound of Death

Jane Austen Foto

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
Lauf so oft verrückt wie du willst, aber sei nicht ohnmächtig!

Jane Austen buch Love and Freindship

Quelle: Love and Friendship

Leo Tolstoy Foto

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
Kann man wirklich jemand anderem sagen, was man fühlt?

Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina

Quelle: Anna Karenina

John F. Kennedy Foto

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
Die Chinesen verwenden zwei Pinselstriche, um das Wort "Krise" zu schreiben. Ein Pinselstrich steht für Gefahr; der andere für die Gelegenheit. Seien Sie sich in einer Krise der Gefahr bewusst - aber erkennen Sie die Gelegenheit.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
George Carlin Foto

“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
Ich mache diese echte Idiotensache und sie heißt Denken. Und anscheinend bin ich kein sehr guter Amerikaner, weil ich meine eigenen Meinungen bilden mag.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
John Steinbeck Foto

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic?… Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
Tragen Sie stolz in Ihrem Schmerz? Lässt er Sie groß und tragisch erscheinen?… Nun, denken Sie darüber nach. Vielleicht spielen Sie gerade eine Rolle auf einer großen Bühne, und sie selbst sind das Publikum.

John Steinbeck buch East of Eden

Quelle: East of Eden

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”
Ich mag Menschen und ich mag, dass sie mich mögen, aber ich trage mein Herz dort, wo Gott es hingestellt hat, innen.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Vergiss nie, dass alles, was Hitler in Deutschland getan hat, legal war.

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

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
Nur diejenigen, die das Absurde versuchen, werden das Unmögliche erreichen!

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

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
Nichts ermüdet mich je, außer zu tun, was ich nicht mag.

Jane Austen buch Mansfield Park

Variante: I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
Quelle: Mansfield Park

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
Obwohl wir um die Welt reisen, um das Schöne zu finden, müssen wir es bei uns tragen, oder wir finden es nicht.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art
Variante: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Quelle: Emerson's Essays
Kontext: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
Mein ganzes Leben lang habe ich die Worte gesehen, als würde ich sie zum ersten Mal sehen.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Letter (9 April 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
Wenn du liebst, möchtest du Dinge dafür tun. Sie möchten dafür opfern. Sie möchten dienen.

Ernest Hemingway buch A Farewell to Arms

Quelle: A Farewell to Arms

Francis Bacon Foto

“There are two ways of spreading light.. to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Es gibt zwei Wege um das Licht zu verbreiten: sei die Kerze oder der Spiegel der sie reflektiert.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Euripidés Foto

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Rede vernünftig mit einem Dummkopf und er nennt dich dumm.

Euripidés The Bacchae

Bacchæ l. 480
Variant translation: To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Variant translation: He were a fool, methinks, who would utter wisdom to a fool. (translated by Edward Philip Coleridge)
Variant translation: Wise words being brought to blinded eyes will seem as things of nought. ( translated by Gilbert Murray http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8418/8418-h/8418-h.htm)
Quelle: The Bacchae

Gabriel García Márquez Foto

“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
Sag ihm ja. Selbst wenn Sie vor Angst sterben, auch wenn es Ihnen später leid tut, denn was auch immer Sie tun, es wird Ihnen den Rest Ihres Lebens leid tun, wenn Sie Nein sagen.

Gabriel García Márquez buch Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera

Quelle: Love in the Time of Cholera

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
Schreiber sind keine richtigen Leute. Aber wenn sie ein wenig gut sind, dann sind es ganz viele Leute, die sich so schwer anstrengen, um eine einzige Person zu sein.

F. Scott Fitzgerald buch The Love of the Last Tycoon

Quelle: The Love of the Last Tycoon

Paulo Coelho Foto

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
Verschwenden Sie Ihre Zeit nicht mit Erklärungen: die Leute hören nur, was sie hören wollen.

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Pearl S.  Buck Foto

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
Sie können sich nicht dazu bringen, etwas zu fühlen, das Sie nicht fühlen, aber Sie können sich dazu bringen, sich trotz Ihrer Gefühle richtig zu verhalten.

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"My Neighbor's Son"
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

Leo Tolstoy Foto

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina

Quelle: Anna Karenina

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
Frieden kann nicht durch Gewalt erhalten werden. Er kann nur durch Verständnis erreicht werden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Charles Bukowski Foto

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
Sie retten die Welt, indem Sie jeweils einen Mann retten. Alles andere ist grandiose Romantik oder Politik.

Charles Bukowski buch Women

Variante: You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Quelle: Women

Sören Kierkegaard Foto
Leo Tolstoy Foto

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
Die beiden stärksten Krieger sind Geduld und Zeit.

Leo Tolstoy buch Krieg und Frieden

Bk. X, ch. 16
Quelle: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her”
Ein Mädchen sollte niemals vergessen, dass sie niemanden braucht, der sie nicht braucht.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Thomas Jefferson Foto

“I cannot live without books.”
Ich kann nicht ohne Bücher leben.

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to John Adams (10 June 1815)
1810s

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”
Was ich ins Bett trage? Natürlich, Chanel Nr. 5.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variante: What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

Napoleon Hill Foto

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Variante: Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Quelle: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
Ohne Ehrgeiz fängt man nichts an. Ohne Arbeit macht man nichts fertig. Der Preis wird Ihnen nicht zugesandt. Du musst es gewinnen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Douglas Adams Foto

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
Wir sind festgefahren mit Technik und alles, was wir wirklich wollen, ist nur Zeug, das funktioniert.

Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

Quelle: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

George Bernard Shaw Foto

“Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”
Kunst ist der magische Spiegel, den Sie machen, um Ihre unsichtbaren Träume in sichtbaren Bildern zu reflektieren. Sie verwenden einen Glasspiegel, um Ihr Gesicht zu sehen: Sie verwenden Kunstwerke, um Ihre Seele zu sehen.

George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Quelle: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Kontext: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.

Jane Austen Foto

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
Tanzlust war ein gewisser Schritt in Richtung Verliebtheit.

Jane Austen buch Stolz und Vorurteil

Quelle: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
Ich mag große Partys. Sie sind so intim. Auf kleinen Partys ist man nie unter sich.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

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