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John C. Maxwell Foto

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
Bei Führung geht es nicht um Titel, Positionen oder Flussdiagramme. Es geht darum, dass ein Leben ein anderes beeinflusst.

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Jim Morrison Foto

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
Sie spüren Ihre Stärke in der Erfahrung von Schmerz.

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Bob Marley Foto

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Eine gute Sache an Musik ist, dass wenn sie dich trifft, du keinen Schmerz spürst.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Variante: One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Viktor E. Frankl Foto

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Eine abnormale Reaktion auf eine abnormale Situation ist normales Verhalten.

Viktor E. Frankl buch … trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Quelle: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 32 in the 1992 edition, ISBN 0807014265, Beacon Press

Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
Es war mir schon lange aufgefallen, dass sich Menschen, die etwas erreicht hatten, selten zurücklehnten und es zuließen, dass ihnen etwas zustieß. Sie sind ausgegangen und sind mit Dingen passiert.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Audre Lorde Foto

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
Wenn ich mich um mich selbst kümmere, ist das keine Selbstgefälligkeit, sondern Selbstbewahrung, und dies wiederum eine Tat von politischer Auseinandersetzung.

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
Erich Maria Remarque Foto

“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.”
Es ist keine Schande, dumm geboren zu werden. Dumm zu sterben schon.

Erich Maria Remarque buch Drei Kameraden

Quelle: Three Comrades

Galileo Galilei zitat: “I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
Galileo Galilei Foto

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
Ich habe noch nie einen Mann getroffen, der so ignorant war, dass ich nichts von ihm lernen konnte.

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer

As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
Attributed

Confucius zitat: “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Confucius Foto

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Der Mann, der den Berg abtrug, war derselbe, der anfing, kleine Steine wegzutragen.

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

Quelle: Confucius: The Analects

Louisa May Alcott zitat: “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Louisa May Alcott Foto

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Die Kraft, Schönheit in den einfachsten Dingen zu finden, macht das Zuhause glücklich und das Leben liebenswert.

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Variante: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“The purpose of life…is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)

Bertrand Russell Foto

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Fürchte dich nicht, in der Meinung exzentrisch zu sein, denn jede jetzt akzeptierte Meinung war einmal exzentrisch.

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

"A Liberal Decalogue" http://www.panarchy.org/russell/decalogue.1951.html, from "The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism", New York Times Magazine (16/December/1951); later printed in The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1969), vol. 3: 1944-1967, pp. 71-2
1950s
Kontext: The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.”
Ich habe auch Gefühle. Ich bin immer noch ein Mensch. Alles, was ich möchte ist, für meine Person und für mein Talent, geliebt zu werden.

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

“It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.”
Es kommt nicht darauf an, woher du kommst, sondern wohin du gehst.

Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) American jazz singer
Arthur Rimbaud Foto

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
Tausende von Träumen in mir brennen sanft.

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Jean Cocteau Foto

“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”
Sei du selbst. Die Welt verehrt das Original.

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Marcus Aurelius Foto

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Nicht den Tod sollte man fürchten, sondern daß man nie beginnen wird, zu leben.

Marcus Aurelius buch Selbstbetrachtungen

Quelle: Meditations

Eleanor Roosevelt Foto

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
Hören Sie nicht auf, das Leben als Abenteuer zu betrachten. Sie haben keine Sicherheit, es sei denn, Sie können mutig, aufregend und einfallsreich leben. es sei denn, Sie können eine Herausforderung anstelle von Kompetenz wählen.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Quelle: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Agatha Christie zitat: “Very few of us are what we seem.”
Agatha Christie Foto

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
Sehr wenige von uns sind das, was wir scheinen.

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

Quelle: The Man in the Mist

Agatha Christie Foto

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Ich mag es zu leben. Ich war manchmal wild verzweifelt, sehr elend und voller Trauer, aber durch all das weiß ich immer noch mit Sicherheit, dass es großartig ist, nur am Leben zu sein.

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

Foreword
An Autobiography (1977)

Johnny Depp Foto

“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”
Die einzigen Geschöpfe, die weit genug entwickelt sind, um reine Liebe auszudrücken, sind Hunde und Kleinkinder.

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Albert Einstein Foto

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
Wenn Sie möchten, dass Ihre Kinder intelligent sind, lesen Sie ihnen Märchen vor. Wenn Sie möchten, dass sie intelligenter sind, lesen Sie ihnen mehr Märchen vor.

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

Found in Montana Libraries: Volumes 8-14 (1954), p. cxxx http://books.google.com/books?id=PpwaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22more+fairy+tales%22#search_anchor. The story is given as follows: "In the current New Mexico Library Bulletin, Elizabeth Margulis tells a story of a woman who was a personal friend of the late dean of scientists, Dr. Albert Einstein. Motivated partly by her admiration for him, she held hopes that her son might become a scientist. One day she asked Dr. Einstein's advice about the kind of reading that would best prepare the child for this career. To her surprise, the scientist recommended 'Fairy tales and more fairy tales.' The mother protested that she was really serious about this and she wanted a serious answer; but Dr. Einstein persisted, adding that creative imagination is the essential element in the intellectual equipment of the true scientist, and that fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality." However, it is unclear from this description whether Margulis heard this story personally from the woman who had supposedly had this discussion with Einstein, and the relevant issue of the New Mexico Library Bulletin does not appear to be online.
Variant: "First, give him fairy tales; second, give him fairy tales, and third, give him fairy tales!" Found in The Wilson Library Bulletin, Vol. 37 from 1962, which says on p. 678 http://books.google.com/books?id=KfQOAQAAMAAJ&q=einstein#search_anchor that this quote was reported by "Doris Gates, writer and children's librarian".
Variant: "Fairy tales … More fairy tales … Even more fairy tales". Found in Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes (1979), p. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=MxZFuahqzsMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Variant: "If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales." Found in Chocolate for a Woman's Heart & Soul by Kay Allenbaugh (1998), p. 57 http://books.google.com/books?id=grrpJh7-CfcC&q=brilliant#search_anchor. This version can be found in Usenet posts from before 1998, like this one from 1995 http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.beatles/msg/cec9a9fdf803b72b?hl=en.
Variant: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales." Found in Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and the Cinema by Christopher Frayling (2005), p. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=HjRYA3ELdG0C&lpg=PA6&dq=einstein%20%22want%20your%20children%20to%20be%20intelligent%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=einstein%20%22want%20your%20children%20to%20be%20intelligent%22&f=false.
Variant: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." Found in Super joy English, Volume 8 by 佳音事業機構 (2006), p. 87 http://books.google.com/books?id=-HUBKzP8zsUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false
Disputed
Kontext: Fairy tales and more fairy tales. [in response to a mother who wanted her son to become a scientist and asked Einstein what reading material to give him]

Marie Curie Foto

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Seien Sie weniger neugierig auf Menschen und mehr neugierig auf Ideen.

Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist

Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science‎ (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 222
Variante: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

“The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.”

John Rawls buch A Theory of Justice

Quelle: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter II, Section 14, pg. 87-88
Kontext: Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if the refusal to acquiesce in injustice is on a par with being unable to accept death. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
Kontext: We may reject the contention that the ordering of institutions is always defective because the distribution of natural talents and the contingencies of social circumstance are unjust, and this injustice must inevitably carry over to human arrangements. Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if the refusal to acquiesce in injustice is on a par with being unable to accept death. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. Aristocratic and caste societies are unjust because they make these contingencies the ascriptive basis for belonging to more or less enclosed and privileged social classes. The basic structure of these societies incorporates the arbitrariness found in nature. But there is no necessity for men to resign themselves to these contingencies. The social system is not an unchangeable order beyond human control but a pattern of human action. In justice as fairness men agree to avail themselves of the accidents of nature and social circumstance only when doing so is for the common benefit. The two principles are a fair way of meeting the arbitrariness of fortune; and while no doubt imperfect in other ways, the institutions which satisfy these principles are just.

André Gide Foto

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Es ist besser, für das gehasst zu werden, was man ist, als für das geliebt zu werden, das man nicht ist.

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Quelle: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Quelle: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
Ich trinke, um andere Menschen interessanter zu machen.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Michael Jordan Foto

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
Ich habe in meinem Leben immer und immer wieder versagt und deshalb bin ich erfolgreich.

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
William Shakespeare Foto

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
Lass mich sein, dass ich bin, und versuche, mich nicht zu verändern.

William Shakespeare buch Much Ado About Nothing

Quelle: Much Ado About Nothing

Charles Bukowski Foto

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
Wir sind hier, um über die Widrigkeiten zu lachen und unser Leben so gut zu leben, dass der Tod zittern wird, um uns mitzunehmen.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
George Orwell Foto

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
Die Realität existiert im menschlichen Verstand und nirgendwo anders.

George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

Jack Kerouac Foto

“It all ends in tears anyway.”
Alles endet mit Tränen.

Jack Kerouac buch The Dharma Bums

Quelle: The Dharma Bums

Arnold Schwarzenegger Foto

“Strength does not come from winning.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage

From a 1982 interview with Boston Globe journalist Marian Christy. Christy, Marian. "Winning according to Schwarzenegger." https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294151457.html Boston Globe: Boston, MA. 9 May 1982: p 51. Accessed 25 Jun 2016.
1980s
Kontext: Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. When you make an impasse passable, that is strength. But you must have ego, the kind of ego which makes you think of yourself in terms of superlatives. You must want to be the greatest. We are all starved for compliments. So we do things that get positive feedback.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Jedes Leben ist ein Experiment. Je mehr Du experimentierst, desto mehr lebst Du.

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

Quelle: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844

Dolly Parton Foto

“God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.”
Gott ist in allem, was ich tue, und meine ganze Arbeit verherrlicht ihn.

Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress
Emily Dickinson Foto

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward. Quoted in "The Conscious Self in Emily Dickinson's Poetry" by Charles A. Anderson: American Literature, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Nov. 1959), pp. 290-308.

John Steinbeck Foto

“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
Ein Mann, der so schmerzhaft verliebt ist, ist zu unglaublichen Selbstquälereien fähig.

John Steinbeck buch East of Eden

Quelle: East of Eden

Helen Keller Foto

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Mit einem Freund durch die Dunkelheit zu gehen ist besser als allein im Licht zu gehen.

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

Variante: Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Victor Hugo Foto

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Sogar die dunkelste Nacht wird enden und die Sonne wird aufgehen.

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

William Shakespeare Foto

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
Mit der Zeit hassen wir das, was wir oft fürchten.

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Quelle: Antony and Cleopatra

Salvador Dalí Foto

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
Hab keine Angst vor Perfektion - du wirst sie nie erreichen.

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Friedrich Nietzsche Foto
Maurice Merleau-Ponty Foto
Theodore Roosevelt Foto

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
Wenn Sie am Ende Ihres Seils angelangt sind, binden Sie einen Knoten und halten Sie sich fest. übertragen: Wenn du am Ende deiner Kräfte bist, schnapp dir etwas Festes und lass nicht los.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Mark Twain Foto

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
Humor ist der Menschheit größter Segen.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Jane Addams Foto

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”
Es gibt nichts Schlimmeres als die Befürchtung, dass man zu früh aufgegeben und eine Anstrengung, die die Welt hätte retten können, ungenutzt gelassen hat.

Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker
Bertrand Russell Foto

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Die fundamentale Ursache für das Problem ist, dass in der modernen Welt die Dummen selbstsicher sind, während die Intelligenten voller Zweifel sind.

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

Often paraphrased as "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Compare: "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." B. Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951). Compare also: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919).
See also: Dunning-Kruger effect, Historical Antecedents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect#Historical_antecedents.
1930s, Mortals and Others (1931-35)

Sigmund Freud Foto

“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”

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

As quoted in In factor of the sensitive man, and other essays (1976 edition) by Anais Nin, p.14
Attributed from posthumous publications

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Foto
Charles Bukowski Foto

“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
Ich ging in die schlechtesten Bars in der Hoffnung, getötet zu werden, aber alles, was ich tun konnte, war mich wieder zu betrinken.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

Iris Murdoch buch The Bell

The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.

José Rizal Foto
Confucius Foto

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

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

Laozi in the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
Misattributed, Chinese

Louisa May Alcott Foto

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
Ich mag gute, starke Worte, die etwas bedeuten …

Louisa May Alcott buch Little Women

Quelle: Little Women

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
Alles, was ich gesehen habe, lehrt mich, dem Schöpfer für alles zu vertrauen, was ich nicht gesehen habe.

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

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
Es gibt keine schöne Fläche ohne eine schreckliche Tiefe.

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

“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
Vermeide Zigaretten, Alkohol und Drogen als Alternativen dazu, eine interessante Person zu sein.

Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
Mark Twain Foto

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Bücher sind für Leute, die sich wünschen, woanders zu sein.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
C.G. Jung Foto

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
Als Kind habe ich mich allein gefühlt und bin es immer noch, weil ich Dinge weiß und auf Dinge hinweisen muss, von denen andere augenscheinlich nichts wissen und größtenteils nicht wissen wollen.

C.G. Jung buch Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Quelle: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Das edelste Vergnügen ist die Freude am Verstehen.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Nikola Tesla Foto

“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73 ISBN 0760710058 </small> ; also in Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230 <small> ISBN 0743215362

Bob Marley Foto

“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”
Menschen, die versuchen, diese Welt zu verschlechtern, machen keine Ferien. Warum sollte ich sie haben?

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Response, after being asked why he went ahead and performed in the concert "Smile Jamaica", two days after he, his wife and manager were wounded inside his home after an assault by unknown gunmen, thought to be politically motivated (5 December 1976), as quoted in Bob Marley The Father of Music (2010) by Jean-Pierre Hombasch, p. 5
Variante: The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?

Jean De La Fontaine Foto

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Selten wie wahre Liebe, wahre Freundschaft ist seltener.

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Zig Ziglar Foto

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
Reiche Menschen haben kleine Fernseher und große Bibliotheken, arme Leute haben kleine Bibliotheken und große Fernseher.

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Viktor E. Frankl Foto

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Wenn wir eine Situation nicht mehr ändern können, sind wir aufgefordert, uns selbst zu ändern.

Viktor E. Frankl buch … trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Quelle: Man's Search for Meaning

Rainer Maria Rilke Foto
Abraham Lincoln Foto

“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
Wenn ich Gutes tue, fühle ich mich gut. Wenn ich Schlechtes tue, fühle ich mich schlecht. Das ist meine Religion.

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

Quoted in 3:439 Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 439 http://books.google.com/books?id=rywOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA439&dq=%22when+i+do+good+i+feel+good%22: Inasmuch as he was so often a candidate for public office Mr. Lincoln said as little about his religious code as possible, especially if he failed to coincide with the orthodox world. In illustration of his religious code I once heard him say that it was like that of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he heard speak at a church meeting, and who said: "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."
Posthumous attributions

George Carlin zitat: “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
George Carlin Foto

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
Der Grund, warum ich mit mir selbst spreche, ist, dass ich die einzige bin, deren Antworten ich akzeptiere.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Intelligenz und Charakter - Das ist das Ziel wahrer Bildung.

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

Variante: Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.

Angelina Jolie Foto

“The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.”
Der Verstand will vergessen, weil es so sehr auf Herz und Seele lastet. Ich habe es satt zu weinen und mich so hilflos zu fühlen. Ich möchte wieder atmen - nur für eine kleine Weile.

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
Jonathan Edwards Foto
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”
Manchmal fallen die Dinge auseinander, damit bessere Dinge zusammenfallen können.

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

Variante: Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

C.G. Jung Foto

“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”

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

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Streite niemals mit dummen Leuten. Sie werden dich auf ihr Level runterziehen und dich dort mit Erfahrung schlagen.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Variante: Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

George Orwell Foto

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

George Orwell buch Farm der Tiere

Sometimes paraphrased as "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear."
Variante: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Quelle: Original preface to Animal Farm; as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison

Paulo Coelho Foto

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
Jeder scheint eine klare Vorstellung davon zu haben, wie andere Menschen ihr Leben führen sollen, aber keiner über seine eigenen.

Paulo Coelho buch Der Alchimist

Quelle: The Alchemist

Aldous Huxley Foto

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”

Aldous Huxley buch Schöne neue Welt

Quelle: Brave New World

Eckhart Tolle Foto

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
Die Vergangenheit hat keine Macht über den gegenwärtigen Moment.

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Victor Hugo Foto

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Das Leben ist die Blume, deren Honig die Liebe ist.

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

“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
Erzieht die Kinder und es wird nicht nötig sein, die Männer zu bestrafen.

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

As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists‎ (2007) by James Geary

Terry Pratchett Foto

“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
Die Menschen machen das Leben so interessant. Sie haben es geschafft in einem Universum voller Wunder die Langeweile zu erfinden. (Tod)

Terry Pratchett buch Hogfather

Quelle: Hogfather

Anne Frank Foto

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
Wir alle leben mit dem Ziel, glücklich zu sein; unsere Leben sind alle verschieden und doch gleich.

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Erich Maria Remarque Foto

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
Das Leben wollte uns nicht perfekt machen. Wer perfekt ist, hat einen Platz im Museum.

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist
Albert Einstein Foto

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
Kreativität ist Intelligenz, die Spaß hat.

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

“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
Wir waren alle sofort schrecklich alleine, und allein mussten wir da durchblicken.

Erich Maria Remarque buch Im Westen nichts Neues

Quelle: All Quiet on the Western Front

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Nichts auf dieser Welt ist gefährlicher als aufrichtige Ignoranz und gewissenhafte Dummheit.

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

Quelle: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3

Ronald Reagan Foto
George Orwell Foto

“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”
Geständnis ist kein Verrat. Was Sie sagen oder tun, spielt keine Rolle. Nur Gefühle sind wichtig. Wenn sie mich dazu bringen könnten, dich nicht mehr zu lieben, wäre das der wahre Verrat.

George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

Charles Bukowski Foto

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”
Wenn du deine Seele verlierst und weißt es, dann hast du immer noch eine Seele zu verlieren.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
George Orwell Foto

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
Es freut mich, mit Ihnen zu reden. Ihr Verstand spricht mich an. Er ähnelt dem meinem, außer, dass Sie zufällig verrückt sind. Ich beteitet mir Freude, mich mit Ihnen zu unterhalten. ...

George Orwell buch 1984

Quelle: 1984

Friedrich Nietzsche Foto

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Es ist nicht ein Mangel an Liebe, sondern ein Mangel an Freundschaft, der zu unglücklichen Ehen führt.

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

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.”

Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist

As quoted in Meditations for Women Who Do Too (1991) by Anne Wilson Schaef

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