„Po lásce nemohu sáhnout, jako by byla kdesi v zásobě: je to především práce mého srdce.“
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book Ciudadela
Source: Citadela, kapitola XXIX
Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
„Jeden metr, o který se člověk vyšplhá výše, má větší cenu než deset metrů, o které je vyzvednut.“
George H. Brimhall (1852–1932) prezident Brigham Young University
Source: Kaleidoskop. Str. 269.
„To, co děláme ve chvíli, kdy nemáme co dělat, ukazuje nejlépe, jací skutečně jsme.“
George H. Brimhall (1852–1932) prezident Brigham Young University
Source: Kaleidoskop. Str. 260.
Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book I. Preparation and Departure, Lines 547–549 (tr. R. C. Seaton)
“We don't fit in well 'cause we are just ourselves”
Ed Sheeran (1991) English singer-songwriter and producer
Song Beautiful People
“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
„Nikdo není skutečně šťastný. Není to lidské.“
Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) americký zpěvák a kytarista
“The most terrible iron is not missiles, aircraft, and tanks, but shackles.”
Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine
Source: https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1562384096130736128
“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Variant: Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
Source: The Princess Bride
“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”
Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451
Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variant: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“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
“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
Giacomo Leopardi book Zibaldone
Source: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Journal
Variant: Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.