Quotes of famous people

“We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.”

“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

“A lot of people, they think, ‘Oh, I’m only going to be happy when I find a special person who is going to make me happy.’ No. In life, you have to be happy with yourself first, number one. When you’re happy with yourself, you have to find another person who is happy with herself so you can share your happiness.”

“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”

“It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost….”

“The German who is still free from all Slav or Celtic alloy has a distinctive character and vies with all his equals. When he is allied with other races, provided he has the necessary patience and endurance he always succeeds in becoming, the chief, the directing will, as the husband must be in a household. I have no desire to offend the Slavs, but it is very necessary to recognise that their character has much of the feminine in it: they have charm, intelligence, artifice, address, and often the Germans appear heavy and clumsy beside them. But we always carry the day, and that is why I would like to say to you: when you are doing business with your Slav rivals, even at moments of the most violent anger and in the most critical situations, always retain the profound conviction, the most profound but secret conviction, that you are fundamentally their superiors, and that you always will be so.”

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

“The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”

“Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”

“We will wait for him like a good wife waiting for her husband who is in jail.”

“Do you know what le vice Anglais – the English vice – really is? Not flagellation, not pederasty – whatever the French believe it to be. It's our refusal to admit to our emotions. We think they demean us, I suppose.”

“I love May's first storms:
chuckling, sporting spring
grumbles in mock anger;
young thunder claps.”

“One could say I understand the city as an entity that shapes those who inhabit it, even though, in the process, it can become an anthropophagous being, merciless—especially toward the less privileged.”

“Literature must avoid propaganda or moralism if it truly wants to be critical and open.”

“The city becomes an ideal metaphor for how I perceive human beings.”

“The mestizo dog is an intense allegory of the Latin American condition.”

“A stray dog listens to what no one says and sees what is hidden, making him a privileged narrator.”

“From the margins, one can speak with irony, tenderness, and rage.”