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Marcus Tullius Cicero Foto
Alexander Pope Foto

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Letter, written in collaboration with John Gay, to William Fortescue (23 September 1725).
A similar remark was made in a letter to John Gay (16 October 1727): "I have many years magnify'd in my own mind, and repeated to you a ninth Beatitude, added to the eight in the Scripture: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Variante: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Kontext: "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”
Deine Kleidung sollte knapp genug sein, um deine Weiblichkeit sichtbar zu machen, aber locker genug, um die Dame in dir hervorzuheben.

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

“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”

Walter Scott Marmion

Canto VI, st. 17.
Variante: Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
Quelle: Marmion (1808)

Albert Einstein Foto

“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
Wenn a für Erfolg steht, gilt die Formel a = x + y + z; x ist Arbeit, y ist Spiel, und z heißt Maulhalten.

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

Said to Samuel J Woolf, Berlin, Summer 1929. Cited with additional notes in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice and Freeman Dyson, Princeton UP (2010) p 230
1920s
Variante: If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

P.G. Wodehouse Foto

“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Quelle: Very Good, Jeeves!

Ambrose Bierce Foto

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
Die Umschläge dieses Buches liegen zu weit auseinander.

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.”
Bitte mach mir keinen Scherz. Beende das Interview mit dem, was ich glaube. Es macht mir nichts aus, Witze zu machen, aber ich möchte nicht so aussehen … Ich möchte ein Künstler sein, eine Schauspielerin mit Integrität.

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

Kontext: Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Her last taped interview, with Richard Meryman, published in LIFE magazine a few days before her death. (3 August 1962); quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) <!-- p. 42 -->

Bob Dylan Foto

“And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”
Und ich werde auf dem Meer stehen, bis ich anfange zu sinken.

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Jane Austen Foto

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
Die Entfernung ist nichts, wenn man ein Motiv hat.

Jane Austen buch Stolz und Vorurteil

Quelle: Pride and Prejudice

Henry David Thoreau Foto

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
Träume sind die Prüfsteine unserer Charaktere.

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

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday

Walter Lippmann Foto

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American journalist

A Preface to Morals (1929)

Albert Einstein Foto

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
Wenn Menschen nur deshalb gut sind, weil sie Bestrafung fürchten und auf Belohnung hoffen, dann tut uns das in der Tat sehr leid.

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

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
Wenn jeder für seine eigenen Überzeugungen kämpfen würde, gäbe es keinen Krieg.

Leo Tolstoy buch Krieg und Frieden

Quelle: War and Peace

Paulo Coelho Foto

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”
Intuition ist ein plötzliches Eintauchen der Seele in die universelle Strömung des Lebens.

Paulo Coelho buch Der Alchimist

Quelle: The Alchemist

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”
Vor der Heirat muss ein Mädchen mit einem Mann schlafen, um ihn festzuhalten. Nach der Heirat muss sie ihn festhalten, um mit ihm zu schlafen.

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

Variante: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Albert Einstein Foto

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
Eine kluge Person löst ein Problem. Ein weiser Mensch vermeidet es.

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

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Was du durch das Erreichen deiner Ziele bekommst, ist nicht so wichtig wie das, was du durch das Erreichen deiner Ziele wirst.

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

Original from Zig Ziglar https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zig_Ziglar
Misattributed

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Für jede Minute, die Sie wütend sind, verlieren Sie sechzig Sekunden des Glücks.

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

No known source in Emerson's works; first found as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom in a 1936 newspaper column:
: Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
:* Junius, "Office Cat" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85995624/, The Daily Freeman [Kingston, NY] (30 December 1936), p. 6
Misattributed

Woody Allen Foto

“It's a match made in heaven… by a retarded angel.”
Es ist ein Treffer, der im Himmel gemacht wurde ... von einem zurückgebliebenen Engel.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
John Burroughs Foto
Thomas Carlyle Foto
Anaïs Nin Foto

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

March 1937
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Quelle: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Charles Baudelaire Foto

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
Das Schöne ist immer bizarr.

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Variante: The Beautiful is always strange.

Marcus Tullius Cicero Foto

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Wenn du einen Garten in einer Bibliothek hast, wird es dir an nichts fehlen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

To Varro, in Ad Familiares IX, 4

Oprah Winfrey Foto

“I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Alfred Korzybski Foto
Wayne W. Dyer Foto

“You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
Du wirst im Leben so behandelt, wie du den Leuten beibringst, dich zu behandeln.

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
Rebecca West Foto
Victor Hugo Foto

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
Sie fragen mich, was mich zum Sprechen zwingt? eine seltsame Sache; Mein Gewissen.

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

Albert Einstein Foto

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

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

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Groß sein heißt missverstanden werden.

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

Quelle: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Woody Allen Foto

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
Das Leben ahmt keine Kunst nach, es ahmt schlechtes Fernsehen nach.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
Ein Held ist nicht tapferer als ein gewöhnlicher Mann, aber er ist fünf Minuten länger tapfer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Winston S. Churchill Foto

“Never, never, never give in!”
Niemals, niemals, niemals aufgeben!

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

Variante: Never, never, never give up.

George Carlin Foto
Albert Einstein Foto

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
Unser Ziel muss es sein, uns aus dem Gefängnis zu befreien, indem wir den Horizont unseres Mitgefühls erweitern, bis er alle lebenden Wesen und die gesamte Natur in all ihrer Schönheit umfasst.

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

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
Die erste Methode zur Einschätzung der Intelligenz eines Herrschers besteht darin, die Männer zu betrachten, die er um sich hat.

Niccolo Machiavelli buch Der Fürst

Quelle: The Prince

John Steinbeck Foto

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
Kein Mann kennt andere Menschen wirklich. Das Beste, was er tun kann, ist anzunehmen, dass sie wie er selbst sind.

John Steinbeck buch The Winter of Our Discontent

Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Chapter III

Emily Dickinson Foto

“My friends are my "estate."”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859), letter #193 of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward
Variante: My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

Woody Allen Foto

“Sex without love is an empty experience. But as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.”
Sex ohne Liebe ist eine leere Erfahrung. Aber als leere Erfahrung ist eine der besten.

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

Love and Death (1975)

Milan Kundera Foto

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
Aber wenn die Starken zu schwach waren, um die Schwachen zu verletzen, mussten die Schwachen stark genug sein, um zu gehen.

Milan Kundera buch Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins

pg 71
Quelle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body

Leo Tolstoy Foto

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Falsch hört nicht auf, falsch zu sein, weil die Mehrheit daran beteiligt ist.

Leo Tolstoy buch A Confession

Quelle: A Confession

Woody Allen Foto

“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
Gott schweigt. Nun, wenn nur der Mensch den Mund halten würde.

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

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

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

Reportedly in: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Mistrust, Conspiracy, and Lack of Internet Ethics (1980) Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress. p. 32
Attributed

Anthony Robbins Foto
Confucius Foto

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
Wer alle Antworten kennt, hat nicht alle Fragen gestellt bekommen.

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

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
Keine Armee kann eine Idee aufhalten, deren Zeit gekommen ist.

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Variante: No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come

Leo Tolstoy Foto

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
Wenn Sie nach Perfektion suchen, werden Sie nie zufrieden sein.

Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina

Quelle: Anna Karenina

William Blake Foto

“Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
Mitleid ist die goldene Kette, durch die die Gesellschaft zusammengehalten wird.

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Thomas Jefferson Foto

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Wollen Sie wissen, wer Sie sind? Frag nicht. Handle! Aktion wird Sie abgrenzen und definieren.

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

Variante: Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
Eigentlich war ich nicht verliebt, aber ich fühlte eine Art zärtliche Neugier.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Quelle: The Great Gatsby

René Descartes Foto

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
Wenn Sie wirklich nach der Wahrheit suchen, ist es notwendig, dass Sie mindestens einmal in Ihrem Leben so weit wie möglich an allen Dingen zweifeln.

René Descartes buch Principles of Philosophy

Original Latin: Veritatem inquirenti, semel in vita de omnibus, quantum fieri potest, esse dubitandum
Variant translation: If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Principles of Philosophy (1644)
Variante: In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Sören Kierkegaard Foto

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
Die Leute verstehen mich so schlecht, dass sie nicht einmal meine Beschwerde verstehen, dass sie mich nicht verstehen.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Variante: People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.
Quelle: The Journals of Kierkegaard

Richard Bach Foto

“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”

Richard Bach buch Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Quelle: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Stephen King Foto

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Amateure sitzen und warten auf Inspiration, der Rest von uns steht einfach auf und geht zur Arbeit.

Stephen King (1947) American author

Quelle: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Leo Tolstoy Foto
Elbert Hubbard Foto

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”
Jeder Mann ist mindestens fünf Minuten am Tag ein verdammter Dummkopf. Weisheit besteht darin, die Grenze nicht zu überschreiten.

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

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Quelle: The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days

Sören Kierkegaard Foto

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
Der schmerzhafteste Zustand des Seins ist das Erinnern an die Zukunft, insbesondere an die, die Sie niemals haben werden.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Charles Bukowski Foto

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
Ich habe dich geliebt, wie ein Mann eine Frau liebt, die er nie berührt, nur schreibt, von der er kleine Fotos macht.

Charles Bukowski buch Love Is a Dog from Hell

Quelle: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Milan Kundera Foto

“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”

Milan Kundera buch Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins

Quelle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Charles Bukowski Foto

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
Am wichtigsten ist es, wie gut Sie durch das Feuer gehen.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
Rückblickend schätze ich, dass ich die ganze Zeit geschauspielert habe. Zum einen bedeutete das, dass ich in einer interessanteren Welt leben könnte als in der Welt, die um mich herum ist.

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

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
Welche meiner vielen wichtigen Nichtigkeiten sollte ich dir zuerst erzählen?

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Woody Allen Foto

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
Vertrauen ist das, was Sie haben, bevor Sie das Problem verstehen.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
Verschwenden Sie sich nicht mit Ablehnung und bellen Sie nicht gegen das Böse, sondern singen Sie die Schönheit des Guten.

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

Success
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

Paulo Coelho Foto

“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
Wenn Sie zunächst versprechen, was Sie noch nicht einmal haben, verlieren Sie Ihren Wunsch, darauf hinzuarbeiten.

Paulo Coelho buch Der Alchimist

Quelle: The Alchemist

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
Wenn Freundschaften echt sind, sind sie keine Glasfäden oder Frostwerk, sondern die dauerhaftesten Dinge, die wir kennen können.

Ralph Waldo Emerson buch Essays: First Series

Quelle: Essays: First Series

Milan Kundera Foto

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”

Milan Kundera buch Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins

pg 27
Quelle: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight

D.H. Lawrence Foto

“Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Rudyard Kipling Foto

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
Ich habe in meinem Leben nie einen Fehler gemacht; zumindest nie einen, den ich später nicht erklären hätte können.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Quelle: Under The Deodars

Marcus Tullius Cicero Foto

“In times of war, the law falls silent.”
In Kriegszeiten verstummt das Gesetz.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Sören Kierkegaard Foto

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
Die häufigste Form der Verzweiflung ist, nicht zu sein, wer du bist.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
Das Erste und Letzte, was Sie auf dieser Welt tun müssen, ist, es zu überstehen und sich nicht von ihm zerschlagen zu lassen.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Leo Tolstoy Foto

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
Sei schlecht, aber sei wenigstens kein Lügner, kein Betrüger!

Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina

Quelle: Anna Karenina

Norman Vincent Peale Foto
Albert Einstein Foto

“Love is a better master than duty.”
Liebe ist ein besserer Meister als Pflicht.

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

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
Die meisten Schatten dieses Lebens entstehen, wenn man im eigenen Sonnenschein steht.

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

“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”
Ich bin stets zu spät für Termine - manchmal bis zu zwei Stunden. Ich habe versucht, mein Verhalten zu ändern, aber die Dinge wegen denen ich mich verspäte, sind zu stark und machen mir zu viel Freude.

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

“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”
Ich bin auf jeden Fall eine Frau und ich genieße es.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Simone de Beauvoir Foto

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Attributed
Quelle: As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 548

Jane Austen Foto

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
Selten, sehr selten, gehört die vollständige Wahrheit zu irgendeiner menschlichen Mitteilung; selten trägt es sich zu, dass etwas nicht ein wenig verschleiert oder ein wenig irrig ist.

Jane Austen buch Emma

Quelle: Emma

Thomas Jefferson Foto

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
In Amerika gibt es keine Regierung durch die Mehrheit. Wir haben eine Regierung durch die Mehrheit derer, die mitwirken.

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

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”
Es gibt Zeiten, in denen diese Augen in deinem Gehirn dich selber anstarren.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Quelle: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
Nur weil du einmal versagst, heißt das nicht, dass du bei allem versagen wirst.

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

“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
Glück besteht in der häufigen Wiederholung des Vergnügens.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Henry David Thoreau Foto

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
Das größte Kompliment, das mir jemals gemacht wurde, war, als man mich fragte, was ich dachte, und sich um meine Antwort kümmerte.

Henry David Thoreau buch Life Without Principle

Life Without Principle (1863)
Kontext: The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool.

George Carlin Foto

“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”
Lache oft, lang und laut. Lache, bis du nach Luft schnappst.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Edith Wharton Foto
Anaïs Nin Foto
Paulo Coelho Foto

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
Keiner von uns weiß, was in der nächsten Minute passieren könnte, und trotzdem gehen wir weiter. Weil wir vertrauen. Weil wir Glauben haben.

Paulo Coelho buch Brida

Quelle: Brida

Victor Hugo Foto

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
Wer nicht weint, sieht nicht.

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

John Steinbeck Foto

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
Ideen sind wie Hasen. Du bekommst ein Paar und lernst, mit ihnen umzugehen, und bald hast du ein Dutzend.

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck : A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini

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