Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
© Alexander Pope
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
© Nelson Mandela
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
© Buddha
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
© Maya Angelou
Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.
© Dalai Lama
Bold is not the act of foolishness but the attribute and inner strength to act when others will not so as to move forward not backward.
© Byron Pulsifer
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
© Plutarch
The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s so easy to make it complex.
Читать полностью…Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
© Etty Hillesum
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
© Harry Burchell Mathews
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
© Marcus Aurelius
Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.
© Lloyd Jones
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
© Ralph Emerson
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
© Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
© Niels Bohr
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
© Henri Frederic Amiel
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
© Chinese Proverb
Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
© William Yeats
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little — do what you can.
© Sydney Smith