Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
“You’re only as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.”
“Effort is the oxygen for talent.”
From his various literature
Source: These words are uttered by the lead character of his work with the same name - Sakharam Gatne.
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Variant: A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Variant: Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Source: The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, p. 188; also reported in various sources as:
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775), Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 169
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
As quoted in Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden (2003) by Bonita Jean Zimmer, p. 182
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes, it is letting go.”