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Quotations, wise words and proverbs to live by
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- Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924 is one of the most important and influential fiction writers of the early 20th century; a novelist and writer of short stories whose works, only after his death, came to be regarded as one of the major achievements of 20th century literature. He was born to middle-class German-speaking Jewish parents in Prague, Bohemia. The house in which he was born, on the Old Town Square next to Prague’s Church of St Nicholas, today contains a permanent exhibition devoted to the author.~ Wikipedia
- A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
- A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
- A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
- Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
- Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
- Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
- By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
- Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
- Evil is whatever distracts.
- From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
- God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
- He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
- How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
- I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
- I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
- If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
- In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
- In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
- In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
- In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
- It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
- My “fear”… is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
- My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
- No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.
- Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
- Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
- Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
- So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
- Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
- Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
- The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
- There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
- Writers speak stench.
- Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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- A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Dreams grow holy put in action. ~ Adelaide Anne Procter
- Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. ~ Robert Duvall
- God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. ~ Benny Hinn
- He who dies for the truth finds holy ground everywhere for his grave. ~ German Proverb
- He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. ~ William Law
- However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them? ~ Dhammapada
- 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
- I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. ~ Iris Murdoch
- If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.~ Oswald Chambers
- If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. ~ Thomas a Kempis
- Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. ~ Helen Keller
- Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ~ Ernest Renan
- No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. ~ Henry Giles
- Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer. ~ O. Hallesby
- The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. ~ Thomas Carlyle
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- A lawyer needs three bags: one full of papers, one full of money, and one full of patience. ~ French Proverb
- A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
- Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once. ~ W. C. Sellar
- Don’t sign a paper without reading it, or drink water without seeing it. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Even a sheet of paper has two sides. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Even a sheet of paper is lighter when two people lift it. ~ Korean Proverb
- Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead — from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.~ Charles Kingsley
- Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! ~ Les Brown
- I never thought of myself as a writer, but the simplest thing seemed to be to put a piece of paper in the roller and start typing. ~ Cynthia Friedman
- I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. ~ Ernest Hemingway
- Never begin the day until it is finished on paper. ~ Jim Rohn
- One day a student asked Taiga, “What is the most difficult part of painting?” Taiga answered, “The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult.”~ Zen Saying
- Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. ~ Dr. Walter Smith
- Put your goals in writing. If you can’t put it on a sheet of paper, you probably can’t do what it takes to achieve the goal. ~ Author Unknown
- The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.~ Sarah Orne Jewett
- What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~ Pearl Bailey
- When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. ~ Michael LeBoeuf
- Writing is thinking on paper. ~ William Zinsser
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- A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ~ John Updike
- A wife’s advice is not worth much, but woe to the husband who refuses to take it. ~ Welsh Proverb
- Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief? ~ William Blake
- Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.~ Sir Philip Sidney
- Man was made for joy and woe; and when this we rightly know, through the world we safely go. ~ William Blake
- Ninety per cent of the world’s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves — so how can we know anyone else? ~ Sidney J. Harris
- No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
- None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
- Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. ~ Orison Swett Marden
- Teach me to feel another’s woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me. ~ Alexander Pope
- The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. ~ H. L. Mencken
- The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. ~ Pearl Bailey
- There’s a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! ~ Robert Gilfillan
- Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe that found me poor at first, and keep me so. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.~ Goethe
- When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow. ~ French Proverb
- Woe is he who claims to have found happiness. ~ Iranian Proverb
- Woe to him who sits upon a branch. ~ Croatian Proverb
- Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. ~ William J. Durant
- Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. ~ Goethe
- Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Woe to the high spirited bride whose mother-in-law is still alive. ~ Congolese Proverb
- Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. ~ Voltaire
- Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life. ~ Joseph Conrad
- Woe to those who pray but are heedless in their prayer, who make a show of piety and give no alms to the destitute. ~ The Koran
- Woe to you, my Princess, when I come… you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. ~ Sigmund Freud
- Woe, woe, woe… in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. ~ Raymond Chandler
- Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe. ~ Homer
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- Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. ~ Alvar Aalto
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. ~ James A. Baldwin
- The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ~ David Lloyd George
- The most dangerous thing is illusion. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. ~ Albert Einstein
- A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ~ Bob Edwards
- A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. ~ Alexander Pope
- A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. ~ Frederick Douglass
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. ~ Helen Rowland
- Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. ~ Gertrude Stein
- Don’t play for safety — it’s the most dangerous thing in the world. ~ Sir Hugh Walpole
- Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ~ Agnes Repplier
- Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous. ~ Nicole Kidman
- I think quotes are very dangerous things. ~ Kate Bush
- I’m probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me. ~ Charles Manson
- Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? ~ Pablo Picasso
- It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. ~ Oscar Wilde
- It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. ~ Phyllis Bottome
- It’s a dangerous thing to think we know everything. ~ Jack Kuehler
- Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need — a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing. ~ Jerome K. Jerome
- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. ~ Epictetus
- Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune. ~ Marcus Fabius Quintilian
- The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. ~ Ralph Ellison
- There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. ~ Scott Adams
- They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. ~ Terry Pratchett
- True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ~ Abigail Van Buren
- Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. ~ Scott R. Richards
- When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ~ Charles Dickens
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